The autopsy of JonBenet Ramsey confirms she had a fractured skull and was strangled with a "ligature," although whether she was sexually assaulted was not answered conclusively.
"I don't see anything that tells me with certainty that she was sexually assaulted," said Dr. Richard Krugman, the dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine and an authority on child abuse who has consulted with the prosecution.But, "there is no mistake that there was some kind of trauma. Whether there was abuse or not, I'm not sure."
Portions of JonBenet's autopsy released Monday confirm earlier newpaper reports based on anonymous sources that the 6-year-old beauty queen suffered a vicious blow to the head.
The autopsy details were released after the state Supreme Court rejected prosecutors' efforts to keep most of the autopsy sealed.
JonBenet's body was found in the basement of her family's large Tudor-style mansion on Dec. 26. Her father, John Ramsey, found the body about eight hours after his wife, Patricia, said she found a ransom note demanding $118,000.