Editing Killing of JonBenét Ramsey (section)

===Discovery of the body===
At 1:00&nbsp;p.m. MST, Detective Arndt asked John Ramsey and Fleet White, a family friend, to search the house to see if "anything seemed amiss."<ref name="Newsweek 2016" /> They started their search in the basement. John opened the latched door which Officer French had overlooked; his daughter's body lay in one of the rooms.<ref name="Newsweek 2016" /> JonBenét's mouth was covered with [[duct tape]], a [[nylon]] cord was found around her wrists and neck, and her torso was covered by a white blanket.<ref name="RS" /><ref name=Douglas /> John picked up her body and rushed upstairs. When JonBenét was moved, the crime scene was further contaminated, and critical forensic evidence was disturbed for the returning forensics team.<ref name="Newsweek 2016"/>{{efn|Former FBI profiler [[John E. Douglas]], who was brought in to assist the Ramseys' lawyers on the case in January 1997 to assess whether the Ramseys were involved, stated that if a family member was involved in a murder, they would generally construe events so that another person found the body. In this case, John found the body and his friend followed him into the basement room. According to Douglas, when a family member is involved in a murder, they are likely to cover their child's body in a protective manner, covering all but their head. In this case, just the torso was covered, which did not denote the kind of act a parent would generally perform. In addition, John removed the duct tape from her mouth and loosened the cord around her, which goes against the theory of "staging" the body. Arndt made an error when she moved JonBenét into the living room.<ref name=Douglas>{{cite book |chapter=The JonBenét Ramsey Murder |title=The Cases That Haunt Us: From Jack the Ripper to Jon Benet Ramsey, The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Sheds New Light on the Mysteries That Won't Go Away |url=https://archive.org/details/casesthathauntus00doug | url-access = registration |author=[[John E. Douglas]] and Mark Olshaker |publisher=Scribner |year=2001 |isbn=0-671-01706-3}}</ref>}}

Each of the Ramseys provided handwriting, blood, and hair samples to the police. John and Patsy participated in a preliminary interview for more than two hours, and Burke was also interviewed within the first couple of weeks following JonBenét's death.<ref name=Douglas />