popular appeal

Pointing out how Nancy Grace's cold case feature article by Rupa Mikkilineni failed to mention JonBenet's impact on society, (?), True Crime Report presents (just) 4 of the ways JonBenet's story has shaped pop culture--

The JonBenet Effect: Four Ways the Ramsey Murder Influenced Pop Culture
True Crime Report

"...The article doesn't really touch on just how deeply this murder mystery has become embedded in our national dialogue. The JonBenet murder mystery ranks up there with the OJ Trial, may even outrank it, for the way it's provided grist for the merciless mill of popular culture...

...Plenty of folks just want to discuss a confounding and tragic unsolved crime, one filled with likely suspects -- the social-climbing parents who paraded the child in front of pageant audiences, the older brother in the shadows, various family friends, a sickly old guy who played Santa, truly scary, predatory malcontents who may have been creepy-crawling homes in Boulder at the time -- but some seem much more drawn to the pathos and tragedy of it all.

1. My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike
2. The Jonbenet -- Music
3. Family Guy References
4. The Sob Sister Cult of JonBenet on YouTube and Elsewhere
These are the folks who act as if JonBenet was their own kid, probably while their real kid goes blissfully ignored by the parent in question. The most extreme example ever of this type of sob sister (okay, that's a stretch, but still, it's true in some respects) was probably the JonBenet Ramsey case's most onerous contribution to pop culture -- fantasist and all-around spooky dude, John Mark Karr. He could easily be number 5 on this little list -- but the less said about him, the better."