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We Have Your Daughter: The Unsolved Murder of Jonbenét Ramsey Twenty Years Later by Paula Woodward
1 review
dontwritedown's review
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
5.0
I am writing this barely a month after the Uvalde School shooting and there is just so much parallel for all the wrong reasons.
That being said, as a member of the media, I do feel like the JonBenét case is just like the live coverage of 9/11: a 1-0-1 case of what not to do, legally, morally, and ethically. The media within the first few days were just as much to blame for giving the Ramsey's grief as the detectives who tried hard to pin the murder on them.
I have always been fascinated by this case, mostly because I was born only two-ish months before her death. I feel like Woodward cared for JonBenét's case like it was her own daughter's and I feel her reporting shows that. She breaks down all the mistakes all the misconceptions and even adds in little pieces of evidence that might be nothing but also might be something.
And I feel it really says something about because towards the end, she addresses a note to the killer, about taking a keepsake. Was it a lock of hair? We don't know as readers, but it says something about Woodward that she was able to get close enough to someone in the case, either Smit or John, that would trust her enough with this information.
As for the mystery....I'm at the point to where I don't think it'll ever be solved. No. I don't even think a deathbed confession or a weird DNA break.
Great book though.
That being said, as a member of the media, I do feel like the JonBenét case is just like the live coverage of 9/11: a 1-0-1 case of what not to do, legally, morally, and ethically. The media within the first few days were just as much to blame for giving the Ramsey's grief as the detectives who tried hard to pin the murder on them.
I have always been fascinated by this case, mostly because I was born only two-ish months before her death. I feel like Woodward cared for JonBenét's case like it was her own daughter's and I feel her reporting shows that. She breaks down all the mistakes all the misconceptions and even adds in little pieces of evidence that might be nothing but also might be something.
And I feel it really says something about because towards the end, she addresses a note to the killer, about taking a keepsake. Was it a lock of hair? We don't know as readers, but it says something about Woodward that she was able to get close enough to someone in the case, either Smit or John, that would trust her enough with this information.
As for the mystery....I'm at the point to where I don't think it'll ever be solved. No. I don't even think a deathbed confession or a weird DNA break.
Great book though.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, and Rape