number 8*2

Not surprisingly, the murder of JonBenet Ramsey did not place in the top news stories of the century according to the Newseum survey of the general public and journalists. Last year JonBenet's story was featured as number 8 in Time's most famous unsolved crimes of all time. Entertainment Weekly Hotsheet author Jim Mullen's has his own very special calculations that includes the importance of JonBenet's story to cable new$ this past century--

1) Michael Jackson Dies!

2) Anna Nicole Smith Dies!

3) Who Fathered Anna Nicole Smith’s Baby?

4) Laci Peterson Disappearance

5) Natalee Holloway Disappearance

6) The O.J. Simpson Trial

7) The Terri Schiavo Death Watch

8) JonBenet Ramsey Murder

9) Janet Jackson “Wardrobe Malfunction”

10) 9/11

11) Anything Twitter

12) Princess Diana Dies!

13) Elian Gonzalez Saga

14) Tawana Brawley Saga

15) The Millennium Bug

16) John Wayne Bobbitt and Lorena Bobbitt Incident

17) The Joey Buttafuoco/Amy Fisher Affair

18) The Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan Incident

19) The Last “Seinfeld” Episode

20) Princess Di Weds...

Jim Mullen is the author of “It Takes a Village Idiot: Complicating the Simple Life” and “Baby’s First Tattoo.” You can reach him at jim_mullen@myway.com