Abrasions

The autopsy of JonBenet Ramsey noted several small abrasions on various parts of her body. Her crime remains unsolved, and the source of these abrasions has not been identified. Some of the abrasions have attracted attention from intruder theorists, due to the belief that they may actually be burns from a stun gun.

Description in the Autopsy
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Theory of Dr Spitz
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The "Stun Gun" Theory
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Criticism of the "stun gun" theory
Smit's theory has been rejected by both the Boulder Police Department, the Boulder District Attorney's office, several medical examiners, and stun gun experts.

In 2000, District Attorney Alex Hunter stated that his team at the District Attorney's office had thoroughly investigated the "stun gun" theory and rejected it.

RIVERA: Was a stun gun used to incapacitate the child and facilitate the homicide?

Mr. HUNTER: I'm not going to talk to you about matters of evidence, but I will say that the issue of stun gun was raised long ago and has been looked at thoroughly by my team.

RIVERA: And rejected?

Mr. HUNTER: The team rejects it at this point in time.

Michael Kane: The thing about the "stun gun" that everybody keeps coming back to - there was one person, one person who was qualified, who actually looked at that little girl's body on the autopsy table, and that was Dr Meyer, who was a forensic pathologist. He looked at those very marks and said that they were abrasions. It is a quantum leap--you can take a stun gun and put it up against somebody's body and it's going to leave a burn. It does not leave an abrasion. So all these other opinions that have come out and said "this was a stun gun" - there is absolutely no way they would ever get into evidence because there's no evidence that these were burns.