compare and contrast

Stimulating more of the underlying questions around the bungled investigation that has delayed justice in JonBenet Ramsey's case since erroneously targeting her parents, writer Valerie Richardson compares the case in eerie similarities and stark differences to the presumed murder of little Aarone Thompson.


In 2005 little Aarone would have been 6 years old. By then she had been missing for some 2 years before anyone reported she was gone. The remains have never been found. This month as JonBenet's case is stuck in nearly the same place it was in 1996, the perpetrator accused of child abuse and murder in Aarone's case faces 60 felony counts in Arapahoe County, CO--



Missing Colo. girl may get justice
Published in the Washington Times
By Valerie Richardson

"DENVER They were two pretty girls, both named after their fathers, both residing in Colorado, both 6 years old the last time anyone saw them alive.

But the cases of JonBenet Ramsey and Aarone Thompson are as striking in their differences as they are in their similarities. The two girls existed in very different realms: JonBenet lived a dream childhood in an exclusive Boulder neighborhood, while Aarone shared a cramped house in a lower-income part of Aurora with seven other children...

Yet it is Aarone who may receive justice first.

No suspect has ever been named in the JonBenet Ramsey case, one of the 20th-century's highest-profile unsolved crimes. But the trial of Aarone Thompson begins this week..."