The first two paragraphs of a BBC article about media coverage of this case are of no little interest in terms of putting things into perspective from a statistical standpoint:
Few crime stories in the past decade have gripped America as much as the murder of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, who was found beaten and strangled in her home the day after Christmas in 1996.
That year more than 800 children were murdered in America but without attracting the same kind of intensive scrutiny.
Full article at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4800919.stm
Few crime stories in the past decade have gripped America as much as the murder of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, who was found beaten and strangled in her home the day after Christmas in 1996.
That year more than 800 children were murdered in America but without attracting the same kind of intensive scrutiny.
Full article at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4800919.stm