A section view of the Ramsey home, floor by floor. Select a room to see what the public record puts there and which document to read.
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John and Patsy’s bedroom. Patsy said she came down from this floor and found the note on the back staircase at the start of the morning.
Read: John and Patsy Ramsey police interviews (1997, 1998, 2000), transcripts in the Record Index.
Where she was put to bed on Christmas night. It was the only room police cordoned off on the morning of December 26.
Read: Detective Arndt report; Colorado Newsline, June 10, 2026; Wikipedia summary.
Burke’s room on the same floor. He was 9 and was taken from the house to another location that morning.
Read: Crime Library; Burke Ramsey statements indexed in the Record Index.
The narrow back stairs run from the bedroom floors down to the kitchen area.
Read: House floor plans published by Paula Woodward; crime scene walk-through video.
Patsy said she found the two-and-a-half-page note laid out on the steps of the back staircase.
Read: Michigan warrant affidavit, Jan. 5, 1997 (bottom step of the spiral staircase next to the kitchen, used by Patsy every morning); 911 call; Seattle Times, Oct. 14, 1999.
Visitors cleaned surfaces here on the morning of December 26. Later police-sourced accounts describe a bowl of pineapple on a table; the autopsy describes fruit material in her digestive tract that it says may represent pineapple.
Read: Wikipedia, citing Newsweek; autopsy report; researcher summaries of fingerprint results (not a public report).
The note was written on a pad from the house with a pen from the house. Investigators later said a page in the same pad appeared to hold an abandoned start to a note.
Read: Oxygen (citing ABC News and The Denver Post); Denver7, 2016 (Sgt. Whitson).
John carried JonBenét upstairs and she was laid here. Dr. Meyer first examined her on this floor, under a blanket and a Colorado Avalanche sweatshirt.
Read: Autopsy report (as quoted by NBC); Detective Arndt report.
A broken basement window with a suitcase beneath it and a scuff on the wall below. Fleet White saw the broken window that morning. John Ramsey has said he broke it months earlier when locked out.
Read: Crime Library; CBS News; Seattle Times, 1999.
Patsy’s paint supplies, near the wine cellar door. The broken paintbrush handle tied into the neck cord came from here, according to investigators’ accounts.
Read: Crime Library; investigators’ accounts summarized in press.
A windowless room reached through the boiler room, closed with a wooden latch on the outside. Boulder’s January 1997 affidavit called it a very obscure section of the basement and the farthest room from the only basement staircase. Officer French did not open it that morning. John found JonBenét here at about 1 p.m. Her nightgown was also found in this room.
Read: Michigan warrant affidavit, Jan. 5, 1997; Wikipedia summary; Crime Library; Detective Arndt report; researcher summaries of Bode reports (nightgown).
Why Layout Matters Here
Almost every competing account of December 26 is an argument about this house: which stairs someone used, which door was latched, which window was broken and when, which rooms were searched, and which rooms were cleaned before anyone photographed them. The records that answer those questions are the officer reports, the warrants and their inventories, and the crime scene photographs and video. The theories built on top of them are not records.
Two facts on this map shape everything else. The first search missed the room where JonBenét was. And by the time investigators took control of the scene, her father had moved her body, friends had moved through the house, and the kitchen had been wiped down.
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Part of the Clutch Justice JonBenét Ramsey Case Library. These pages are research references, not legal findings.