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True Crime Blueprint and follow, subscribe to the new podcast. A six-year-old girl goes missing from her

bedroom on the morning after Christmas. Three hours later, her father finds her body in the basement of their own house.

One of the most prominent families in their city becomes the most hated family in America,

and 29 years later, nobody has gone to prison for it.

This is True Crime Blueprint. Okay, so let me set the scene here, because to really understand this case, you have to

understand who the Ramses were before any of this

happened. And I think part of the story gets completely lost because people jump straight to the pageant

photos and the suspicion and the press conferences. There's a whole life that existed before

December 26, 1996, and it matters enormously. John Ramsey was born in

Lincoln, Nebraska in December of 1943. He grew up in the Midwest, with a very structured,

achievement-oriented value system that a lot of people from that part of the country carry with

them their whole lives.

He eventually moved to Michigan, attended Michigan State, got his bachelor's degree, then his

MBA. He served in the Navy after that. His military experience instilled a particular sense of order

and hierarchy in him that would later define his management style as a CEO, and it would

later be misread by investigators and the public as emotional coldness.

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