Jon Benet Ramsey Case

BREAKING NEWS August 17 2006!
An arrest in the Ramsey case - read our statement
Charges against John Karr dropped

Reversals on suspect, John Mark Karr

(1) The Ramseys from CNN interview 1/1/97

The reversal on the father says: "Molest. You're a bad person," followed by a reversal on the mother, "You're a man with a zip. Download mp3 file

Dad: …..[we know that there's many people] that are praying for us…. "We use it. Must they warn me" Download mp3 file

Dad:? we want to thank those people that care about us… "Our rape hurt" Download mp3 file

Mom: …people we haven't seen for years have come to call and be supportive… "The lock with muck" (The reversal "lock" appeared many times in this transcript. Its meaning is unknown) Download mp3 file

Dad: ..it comes from knowing that the only way my family can move on now is to resolve why, who, this happened… "I know who to kill" Download mp3 file

Dad: …I want whatever resources I can bring to bare, brought to bare… "Killed the source / That little crime stop" Download mp3 file

"I was out of my mind and it said don't call the police, that type of thing." "Sealed the lock" (An interesting reversal. Jon Benet was later found in a sealed, locked room in the basement that was missed by the police in earlier searches.) Download mp3 file

Mom: "We were just frantic and I immediately, I dialled the police, 911." "Sealed the bad here. You lady mannequin" (The lady mannequin could be her perception of Jon Benet - she was a young beauty queen) Download mp3 file

Mom: "I called our closest friends and they didn't even ask, I just said come."
"This is a plant. Look into it." Download mp3 file

Dad: "One of the detectives asked me and my friend who was there to go through every inch of the house asking us to do that more to give us something to do. Started in the basement and we're just looking and, we had one room in the basement. "Search with them / Then he calls his unit " (These two reversals repeat the events) Download mp3 file

Mom: "There is a killer on the loose … keep your babies close to you." "Feel the knot / We shook the memory." Download mp3 file

John Ramsey: "Save yourself, little sailor."

John Ramsey: "So sorry. Feel the urges."

Patsy Ramsey. "I now surf with your semen, (secrets/sacred)."

Interviewer: "I'm saving the perverse video."

John Ramsey: "Ron may quit. May leave, he seals the lock"

Patsy Ramsey: "John, rest of them are so sick, they're so sick."

(2) The Ramseys May 97 interview

The following is a transcript of the clearest reversals found on the May 1997 CNN interview with John and Patsy Ramsey. You can hear the reversals by clicking onto the icon. Following the reversal, I have given a brief overview of the possible meaning each reversal may have.

Patsy: …I'm Patsy Ramsey, Jon Benet's mother… And I planned the note - this is a significant reversal and makes us wonder whether Patsy had a hand in the ransom note - here is another interesting link - Download mp3 file  - here is an interesting link that seems to support this reversal - "A Mother Gone Bad." - a psycholinguistic analysis of the Ramsey case

Patsy: …but let me assure you that I did not kill Jon Benet. I did not have anything to do with it… Your shame / Do you feel it Download mp3 file

Patsy: we made a firm commitment that we would not speak openly until we had spent time interviewing with the authorities… See your faith Her faith in God. Download mp3 file

John: …its just been wonderful, so we've come out of this perhaps differently than you would expect in believing that there really is a lot goodness in the world. And that's been an outcome that I think we certainly wouldn't have anticipated with this kind of tragedy… Nice little girl, sist(er). Let me look. Let me nurse you. You get down on my fire A very concerning reversal. The unconscious seems to flash behavioural tendencies after John had just discussed forwards a letter he received from a little girl.  The mental image of the little girl sparked this pattern. The reversal gave me the chills!! Download mp3 file

Patsy: …we need that one phone call to this number that will help the authorities come to a conclusion to this case. Please, if you know anything, I beg you to call us… Your man said it / So awkward She is repeating lines given to her by John Ramsey. Its a little awkward. Download mp3 file

John: (Talking generically to the killer) We'll find you. We will find you. I have that as a sole mission for the rest of my life. We now fool you Download mp3 file

Patsy: …the police and investigators have assured us that this is a case which can be solved. You may be alluding the authorities for a time but God knows who you are and we will find you… They'll see your faith She mentions God to make sure the public is aware of her faith. Download mp3 file

John: ..at least up until yesterday anytime spent looking at us is time wasted and that in part is why we brought in an investigative team as well to immediately look in other directions.. Do they love you? I was the drop man with her / I done it. Its a show you're running The "drop man" is obscure. Download mp3 file

John: ..this was a process that the police went through with us as suspects, I don't believe any new information was provided that we hadn't provided very early on… They love it. Silly sham Contempt for the police. The whole thing is a sham. Download mp3 file

Patsy: …those were beautiful pictures, those, I'm so happy that we have them… Evil's answer Download mp3 file

(3) REVERSALS ON RAMSEY INTERVIEW 20/20 MARCH 2000 (click here)

(4) Jon Benet's song - Mommy, now I know evil (love?) Download mp3 file

(5) Update: Is this reversal the smoking gun in the Ramsey case? The following reversal was found by Tony Feo of Harrisburg, North Carolina. Congratulations Tony!

Forwards Patsy says: "We feel that there are at least two people on the face of the earth that know who did this and that is the killer and someone else that person may have confided in." Backwards, she says: "I'm that person. (Safe and I'll beat this. Seen that rape)"

The forward is played first. Then the first half of the reversal, I'm that person, is played at three speeds. Then the second half of the reversal is played at three speeds, Safe, and I'll beat this. Seen that rape. Then the entire reversal is played at once followed by the forwards once more and immediately reversed. Fantastic complementarity. We feel there are at least two people who know / I'm that person. - Download mp3 file

OVERALL CONCLUSION

Whilst there are some reversals that seem to suggest that the Ramseys were involved in the death, or coverup of the death, of Jon Benet (I planned the note / sealed the lock / I'm that person), I am concerned at the lack of a specific confession in reverse. Compare this to the OJ Simpson reversals on another section on this site (click here for OJ) - he had many reversals of confession. This leads me to wonder whether the death of Jon Benet was not an unfortunate accident, or was not in fact committed by the parents themselves but rather by someone else. Certainly some of their reversals can be explained by grief. As with all reversal analysis though, the more tape we have the better our conclusions can be. And media broadcasts are not the best place to find reversals due to the prepared nature of them. A reversal analysis of police interview tapes, for example, would add greatly to unravelling this mystery.