1. Patricia Ann Ramsey was an American beauty pageant winner who was the mother of JonBenet Ramsey, a six-year-old child beauty pageant queen who was found murdered in her family's home in Boulder, Colorado, on December 26,1996.
13 Facts About Patsy Ramsey
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Patsy Ramsey was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, the daughter of Nedra Ellen Ann and Donald Ray Paugh, an engineer and manager at Union Carbide.
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Patsy Ramsey won the Miss West Virginia beauty title in 1977.
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Patsy Ramsey had three children from his first marriage to Lucinda Pasch from 1966 to 1978, which had ended in divorce.
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Patsy Ramsey gave birth to their second child, daughter JonBenet, on August 6,1990, in Atlanta.
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Patsy Ramsey had been killed by strangulation and a blow to the head.
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John and Patsy Ramsey were sued in two separate defamation lawsuits arising from the publication of their book, The Death of Innocence, brought by two individuals named in the book as having been investigated by Boulder police as suspects in JonBenet's death.
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Patsy Ramsey was diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer in 1993, aged 36.
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Patsy Ramsey died at her father's house on June 24,2006 with her husband by her side, aged 49.
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Patsy Ramsey is buried at St James Episcopal Cemetery in Marietta, Georgia, next to JonBenet.
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Patsy Ramsey has been portrayed by Marg Helgenberger in the miniseries Perfect Murder, Perfect Town ; by Judi Evans in the TV movie Getting Away with Murder: The JonBenet Patsy Ramsey Story ; by Julia Campbell in Lifetime's Who Killed Jonbenet and Melissa McCarthy in an upcoming untitled Paramount+ limited series.
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Patsy Ramsey was portrayed by Alex Borstein, opposite Michael McDonald as her husband, in two MADtv sketches; Jane Lynch voiced her in the Family Guy episode, "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows".
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Patsy Ramsey was portrayed in the 2001 South Park episode, "Butters' Very Own Episode".