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E-book Luminol Theory

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On Christmas Day, 1996, JonBenét Ramsey was reported miss-ing by her family. JonBenét was six years old; she was also a suc-cessful child beauty queen. Patricia Ramsey, JonBenét’s mother, claimed to have discovered a ransom note left on the stairs of their home that apparently alerted the family to the fact that her daughter was missing. Though the note specifically indicated that JonBenét had been abducted, her father, John Ramsey, be-gan the search for his daughter with two of his friends starting in the basement. Specifically, they looked in the area of the base-ment that was used as a wine cellar. They very quickly discov-ered the body of JonBenét, a factor considered highly suspicious by the police and at odds with the information in the ransom note that indicated she had been removed from the house. At once, the basement became a crime scene. The basement is a staple of horror narratives, and Bernice M. Murphy draws on Gaston Bachelard’s seminal architectural work The Poetics of Space when she describes the “suburban basement” as “frequently a place in which unspeakable horrors lurk in the modern horror film.”1 She argues: As Gaston Bachelard noted of the symbolic significance of cellars, the space is “first and foremost the dark entity of the house, the one that partakes of subterranean forces. When we dream there, we are in harmony with the irrationality of the depths.” Similarly, basements in the Suburban Gothic are invariably associated with murder, the concealment of ter-rible crimes and illicit burial.2When JonBenét was discovered in the basement of the Ram-sey home she became part of an overarching Suburban Gothic narrative. The fact that her murder remains unsolved in spite of mass media coverage and extensive expert forensic analysis means that she has passed into the realm of myth and folklore; she is a truly haunting figure. The basement “conceals” the ter-rible crime of her murder temporarily until she is discovered, but on a more profound level, the basement conceals the crime forever. The evidence discovered there is illegible; the basement will not reveal the secret of JonBenét’s “illicit burial.”

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

364 JOY l

Penerbit

USA : Punctum books., 2017

Deskripsi Fisik

137 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781947447127

Klasifikasi

364

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Criminology

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