John Mello
speaker
129 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
John Mello’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I had to do something. I had to take action.
We called friends for help at that point. Your daughter is gone. Desperate. She's in the hands of a madman.
Well, it was awful. First of all, we didn't know whether the kidnapper was going to call that day because the note said, I will call you tomorrow. Get plenty of rest. I was deathly afraid that tomorrow was, in fact, the 27th.
People were making toast in the kitchen. And yes, a kidnapping is a crime scene, but we were so focused on getting JonBenet back. That was the task.
Well, that was one of the theories that I came up with, that it was close to the net amount I'd received that year as a bonus. 118 means something to the killer. We know that. We believe that. Whether it's tied to my bonus or something only the killer knows, we don't know.
On the morning of December 26, the minutes ticked by as the Ramseys waited to hear from the kidnapper.
It was awful.
All I prayed for was that he would call.
The police had prepped me on how to respond in a phone call, and it's very important to hear JonBenet's voice.
Arndt didn't have extensive homicide experience managing a kidnapping and what was about to unfold. This was likely pretty overwhelming for one lone police officer.
Oh, I don't know for sure, but I really thought I could get JonBenet back if I kept my wits about me. You know, there was a pile of envelopes that had come through our front door slot. I was looking for another communication for the kidnapper. She should've been doing that.
I knew instantly, instantly what I'd found. I'd found my daughter. She was lying on a white blanket. The blanket was wrapped around her. Her hands were tied above her head. She had tape over her mouth. I... Immediately knelt down over her, felt her cheek, took the tape off immediately off her mouth. I tried to untie the cord that was around her arms. I couldn't get the knot untied.
Picked her up, and I ran upstairs and laid her on the floor and still had a hope that she was alive.
Linda Arndt's ability to look in someone's eyes and determine they were a killer is a remarkable talent.
She said, yeah, I saw it in John's eyes. I knew he was guilty. That was the detective that was there that morning.
Patsy was being kept out of the room, and I didn't want Patsy to see JonBenet laying there like that.
JonBenet Ramsey was violated and murdered in a horrific way. Many injuries to this little girl's body. The x-ray of her skull shows a massive fracture.
But the ultimate cause of her death was strangulation with something called a garrote.
News outlets from around the world had descended upon Boulder and were just hiding in trees and bushes and digging through our trash, following me around town. I mean, it was war.
You also have to remember the OJ Simpson case had wrapped up. The 24-hour news cycle, their content had dried up. And so along came the Ramsey family, and we fit right into that slot.
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