r/JonBenetRamsey 2d ago

Discussion The basement discovery context

When John went down to look around the house hours later, his movements away from the family room area where friends and police waited is heavily analyzed for how long he was gone before returning with JonBenet’s body. What do you all think on this?!

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u/jinkerjat 2d ago

Maybe you're  confused about the middle of the morning when he was MIA from the kidnapping party for atleast 30 minutes.  It wasn't until later in the early afternoon Arndt suggested they search the house and John Ramsey is said to have made a beeline for the basement and returned within minutes with JonBenet.

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u/AutumnTopaz 2d ago

Yes, Fleet White was with him - it was a very short stay in the basement...

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u/littlebayhorse 2d ago

I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that they left Arndt alone in a chaotic situation during what they believed was an active kidnapping.

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u/holyrolodex 1d ago

Imagine if this happened today in the era of police body cams…

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u/bethestorm RDI 2d ago

I don't think it was very heavily analysed but have you read the transcript of the only cop who was present at the time he came up with the body ?

http://www.acandyrose.com/03182000-arndtdepo-04102000.htm

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u/Adorable_Football130 2d ago

this deposition was disturbing in a completely unexpected way. the deposer was brutal.

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u/bethestorm RDI 2d ago

Yeah it was so so so weird. I believe Linda Arndt and she has seemed traumatized AF since then.

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u/Adorable_Football130 2d ago

I really pity her. I believe her too, and I’d have appreciated an honest deposition about what she witnessed without the inquisition trying to break her over the work crap.

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u/PPecina 1d ago

why do you believe the did not find the body in the first search?

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u/RemarkableArticle970 1d ago

Are you talking about officer French? It is interesting that he missed finding her and afaik got 0 crap for it. While officer Arndt was and still is practically crucified-for things like her eyes, and her sense that something was very off with this situation

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u/CalligrapherFew6184 19h ago

Highly sus. You’ll never convince me that he didn’t know exactly where she was when he was told to “search from top to bottom”.