Step 1 : Introduction to the question "1. The date was December 25, 1996. While most children in America were opening their Christmas presents, six year old Jon Benet Ramsey was being murdered in her home. What activity was she involved in during most of her short life?"
...1. child actor 2. child athlete 3. child singer 4. child beauty queen Jon Beneet's murder was one of the most bizzare cases in history. The case remains unsolved. Her body was found in the basement eight hours after she was reported missing. She had been struck in the head and strangled. Initially the mother Patsy Ramsey was suspected of having been involved in the murder even though she maintained that her daughter was murdered by an intruder while she and several others were upstairs. The police was also accused of conducting a shabby investigation in which they made several mistakes. The parents were not totally exonerated until July 2008. There were also several defamation suits filed against several media organizations for their reporting of the murder.