No, Katy Perry Isn't JonBenét Ramsey

John Ramsey looks on as his wife, Patsy, holds an advertisement promising a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer of their 6-year-old daughter, JonBenet, during an interview May 1, 1997, in Boulder. (Camera file photo).

Googling “Is JonBenét Ramsey Katy Perry?” yields a surprising number of hits. One of the first is this video from December 2014, claiming that Ramsey was not murdered in 1996, as conventional wisdom has it. Instead, she was kidnapped—as part of a 

In this Feb. 8, 2015 file photo, Katy Perry arrives at the 57th annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Jordan Strauss Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP. i. In this Feb. 8, 2015 file photo, Katy Perry arrives at the 57th annual Grammy

John Ramsey looks on as his wife, Patsy, holds an advertisement promising a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer of their 6-year-old daughter, JonBenet, during a CNN interview on May 1, 1997. (Rocky Mountain News).

The theory ignores documented facts like that Ramsey was born in 1990 and Perry was born in 1984, and urban legend-busting website Snopes.com has debunked the theory, but based on past evidence, it will take more than facts and logic to put an Internet