Watch : JonBenét Ramsey's Dad Responds to Claim She's in Epstein FilesJohn Ramsey was shaving on the morning of Dec. 26, 1996, when he heard his wife scream. Patsy Ramsey was headed to the kitchen to put the coffee on, but instead found pieces of paper lying at the bottom of the staircase in their Boulder, Colo., home. began the letter which ultimately alerted Patsy to the fact that her 6-year-old daughter JonBenét Ramsey was not asleep in her bed—as her mother assumed she was at 5:45 a.m. on the day after Christmas. "It was just unbelievable," John, now 82, said in Netflix's 2024 docuseries Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey. He recalled feeling "this horrible in-your-gut trauma," comparing it to when a child wanders out of her parent's sight for a minute at the mall.