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(Thursday, December 26, 1996, 1:30 p.m. MST) — Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was found beaten and strangled today in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado.

A lengthy ransom note was found in the house, and her father, John Ramsey, found the little girl’s body in the basement of their house about eight hours after she was reported missing.

She sustained a broken skull from a blow to the head and had been strangled; a garrote was found tied around her neck.

The official cause of death, as reported by the autopsy, was “asphyxiation due to strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma”

To date, the slaying remains unsolved.

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