  amsey-door-cops-never-opened-501705 "in the early afternoon, after the forensics team and other officers had packed up and left, detective arndt stayed behind to wait with the ramseys. the mood in the house was quiet and tense. john ramsey milled anxiously around the living room; patsy sat virtually motionless in a chair. arndt noted in her police report that she wanted to give john ramsey something to do "to keep [his] mind occupied." she pulled ramsey and friend fleet white aside and told them to conduct a "top to bottom" search of the house to see if anything seemed amiss. when john ramsey swung open the basement doorthe one french had bypassed hours earlierhe saw jonbent's body. "all i could do was scream, to try to attract attention," he says. fleet white bounded up the stairs yelling for someone to "call 911." white later told police he had looked in the basement room earlier that morning but hadn't seen the body. ramsey ripped the duct tape off jonbent's mouth and carried her up the stairs, setting her down on the floor. though it's unclear why, arndt then picked up the body again and moved it to the living room near the christmas tree, where ramsey knelt beside her, repeating "my little angel," over and over. friends carried patsy, too stunned to walk, over to the body. police reports describe her throwing herself over jonbent."
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