Patsy Ramsey
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Ramsey crowned "Miss West Virginia" in 1977
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| Born |
Patricia Ann Paugh December 29, 1956 Gilbert, West Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | June 24, 2006 (aged 49) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Ovarian Cancer |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) | John Bennett Ramsey (1980–2006; her death) |
| Children | 2 |
Patricia Ann "Patsy" Ramsey (née Paugh; December 29, 1956 – June 24, 2006) was an American beauty pageant winner, who, at the age of 20 in 1977, was selected as Miss West Virginia. She was best known as the mother of JonBenét Ramsey, a 6-year-old child beauty pageant queen who was murdered on December 25/26, 1996.
Ramsey was born in Gilbert, West Virginia, the daughter of Nedra Ellen Ann (née Rymer) (1932–2001) and Donald Ray Paugh (born 1931), an engineer and manager at Union Carbide. She graduated from Parkersburg High School in 1975, and attended West Virginia University, where she belonged to the Alpha Xi Delta sorority, and from which she graduated with a B.A. in journalism in 1978. She was high school sweethearts with celebrity WTAP sports anchor, James "Jim" Wharton.
She won the Miss West Virginia beauty title in 1977, and her sister, Pamela Ellen Paugh, won the Miss South Charleston title three years later in 1980, when she was 21.
She married John Ramsey at age 23 on November 5, 1980. Their son, Burke Ramsey, was born on January 27, 1987. She gave birth to their second child, JonBenét, on August 6, 1990 in Atlanta. The family moved to Boulder, Colorado in 1991.
After the homicide of JonBenét in the family's home in December 1996, Boulder law enforcement officials declared that Patsy and her husband were "under an umbrella of suspicion" because of their possible involvement in the crime. The couple spent the next 10 years defending themselves against the allegations by insisting that an intruder killed their daughter. No charges have ever been filed against anyone for the homicide.
A grand jury voted in 1999 to indict the parents of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey on charges of child abuse resulting in death, but then-Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter did not sign the indictment. Multiple sources, including members of the grand jury, have confirmed to the Daily Camera that Hunter refused to sign the indictment believing he could not prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.
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