


Three neighbors have gone on-record giving depositions of hearing this scream at app. time of the skull fracture suffered by JonBenet, a skull fracture so severe that it would have ended the little girl's life had she not been strangled. This time has since been corroborated as the app.

Although still bothered by the scream and the thought that a child had been injured, she stayed awake and listened for any other noises for five to ten minutes, but heard absolutely nothing after that - no cars, no voices, no footsteps, so she eventually went back to sleep). (Melody momentarily had at the time wondered what to do, but thought that surely the parents would hear and come to the child’s rescue. The next morning, while police still thought the 6-year-old beauty queen had been kidnapped, Stanton told them about the heart-rending cry that rang through the Ramsey house and stopped as abruptly as it started. I could tell the sound was coming from the Ramsey house and I knew instantly it had to be their little girl, JonBenét". It was the longest, most horrible scream I have ever heard in my entire life. The scream lasted three to five seconds (it was a little girl screaming," recalls Stanton, 52. She assumed it was somewhere between midnight and 2:00 a.m., but didn't look at the alarm clock. Patsy has told police that JonBenét had a habit of going into her brother's room during the night, but according to the book Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Burke admitted that he pretended to be asleep that morning about the time his mother called 911). And we know JonBenét was close to Burke and trusted him. When a child is attacked by a parent, she has to turn to an ally she can trust. Melody Stanton, one of the Ramsey's neighbors (living less than 100 feet away), awoke abruptly from a deep sleep - the prior stillness of the Boulder night has been pierced by the harrowing scream of a child (for her brother Burke, now 12, to save her from being killed, experts say.
