JonBenét Ramsey Mystery: After 27 Yrs New Evidence Could Lead to Killer

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JonBenét Ramsey: DNA Testing Could be Used to Solve Case, Police Say

Boulder police turning to genetic DNA in JonBenet Ramsey case

In 2008, newly discovered DNA pointed toward the involvement of an ‘unexplained third party’ in the six-year-old’s murder

BBC News 22 DEC 2021.








JonBenét Ramsey, winner of Little Miss Colorado, was found murdered in her home. Photograph: Sipa Press/REX/Shutterstock




John Ramsey looks on as his wife, Patsy, holds an advertisement promising a reward for information of the murderer of their daughter, JonBenét, during an interview in 1997. Photograph: Patrick Davison/AP


Twenty-five years after JonBenét Ramsey was killed, police say DNA hasn’t been ruled out to help solve the case.


The six-year-old was found dead in the basement of her family’s Boulder, Colorado, home on 26 December 1996, bludgeoned and strangled, several hours after her mother called 911 to say her daughter was missing and a ransom note had been left behind. Her death was ruled a homicide, but nobody was ever charged in the case.

Boulder police have been working closely with state investigators on “future DNA advancements”, the department said in a statement Monday addressing the anniversary of JonBenét’s death.

“As the department continues to use new technology to enhance the investigation, it is actively reviewing genetic DNA testing processes to see if those can be applied to this case moving forward,” it said.

In recent years, investigators have identified suspects in unsolved cases by comparing DNA profiles from crime scenes and to DNA testing results shared online by people researching their family trees, including the Golden State Killer in California.

In Oregon earlier this year, a man was accused of killing two people who disappeared 20 years apart after forensic genealogy linked him to the 1999 disappearance and presumed death of one of them. Christopher Lovrien has pleaded not guilty to murder charges.

It’s unclear if this is the method investigators plan to apply to the JonBenét case.

A police spokesperson, Dionne Waugh, said she could not comment further because the investigation is still “active and ongoing”.

Investigators have analyzed nearly 1,000 DNA samples during the course of the Ramsey investigation, police said in the statement, along with receiving, reviewing or investigating more than 21,016 tips, letters and emails. Detectives have traveled to 19 states to interview or speak with more than 1,000 people in connection with the case, the department said.

Tests in 2008 on newly discovered DNA on JonBenét’s clothing pointed to the involvement of an “unexplained third party” in her slaying, and not her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, or their son, Burke. That led former district attorney Mary Lacy to clear the Ramseys of any involvement, two years after Patsy Ramsey died of cancer, calling the couple “victims of this crime”.

The police department was criticized for its initial handling of the investigation into the death of JonBenét, who had competed in beauty pageants.

The details of the crime and video footage of JonBenét from the pageants propelled the case into one of the highest-profile mysteries in the United States, unleashing a series of true-crime books and TV specials.

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JonBenét Ramsey's Father Explains The Truth Behind The Beauty Pageants

60 Minutes Australia 26 Jul 2022


Since the first photos emerged of a dolled-up JonBenét Ramsey 25 years ago, many criticised the six-year-old's involvement in child beauty pageants - but in an extended interview with #60Mins, her father John explained they were a way for his dying wife, Patsy, to spend quality time with their daughter.

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JonBenét Ramsey Mystery: New Evidence That Could Lead to Killer

Killer Revealed? New Forensic Analysis Points Toward Prime Suspect Gary Oliva

60 Minutes Australia 19 FEB 2024







Child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey is one of the most enduring cold cases in history, but new evidence ignored by police during the initial investigation may crack the mystery wide open




It's minus 12 degrees Celsius and snowing heavily when the 60 Minutes team pulls up outside the notorious Ramsey family home in Boulder, Colorado.

Apart from the inhabitants, not much has changed in the 27 years since six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was strangled to death in the basement.

Remarkably, after all this time, one of the most infamous murders in the world remains unsolved.

But there's fresh hope this mystery might finally be cracked, which is why we're here.

Investigators in Colorado say new DNA testing in the JonBenét Ramsey murder case may finally lead them to the killer. “CBI has updated over 750 reference samples with the latest DNA technology,” Boulder police said.

59-year-old Gary Oliva convicted sex offender currently imprisoned in Colorado is once again the focus of the investigation into the 1996 murder of child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey in Boulder.

Handwriting analysis by two experts has linked letters written from prison by Gary Oliva to the infamous ransom note written by Ramsey's killer.

Handwriting experts Mozelle Martin and Dawn McCarty, who had been hired by private investigator Jason Jensen, both told The U.S. Sun that they had found "several significant similarities" between the handwriting of the ransom note and that of Oliva in his letters.

Jensen has been "independently probing" the circumstances around Ramsey's death, the Sun reported, apparently without a paying client.

The two experts analyzed the handwriting samples independently, but came to similar conclusions.

"On a scale of 1 through 5 -- with 1 being a definitive, identical match to the ransom note -- both experts ranked Oliva at a 1.75," the Sun reported.

"And you can't make this up [...] two separate sets of documents by two different authors that have the exact same spacing and all the consistent inconsistencies," McCarty told the Sun, "how could that possibly be? There's too many things that are just hard to ignore.










Oliva, who is currently serving a ten-year sentence for possession of child pornography and has a parole hearing in September, has been cleared several times by the Boulder Police Department after it investigated a series of alleged confessions he made in letters to Vail.







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