JonBenet, pt. 1: the establishment of a narrative
Before the sun was high; So brief her time, she scarcely knew The meaning of a sigh. As round the rose its soft perfume, Sweet love around her floated; Admired she grew–while mortal doom Crept on, unfear’d, unnoted. Love was her guardian Angel here, But Love to Death resign’d her; Tho’ Love was kind, why should we fear But holy Death is kinder? – Hartley Coleridge On August 16 2006 MSNBC broke the story that an arrest had been made in the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, a pretty 6 year old girl, winner of several beauty pageants, who had been garroted and bludgeoned to death on Christmas...