Why JonBenét Ramsey’s Dad Is Feeling Optimistic as Daughter’s Homicide Stays Unsolved

John Bennett Ramsey is the daddy of the 6-year-old baby magnificence pageant queen, who was infamously murdered at her Boulder, Colorado, house. The case continues to captivate and confound the general public because it stays largely unsolved.

Nonetheless, Ramsey reportedly met with regulation enforcement on Monday to push for an intensive assessment and new testing of crime scene proof — and it is clear he left feeling constructive.

“I am very happy and impressed with the management now in place [at the Boulder Police Department] and consider they’re dedicated to do all that may be executed utilizing the most recent know-how and out there assets to determine the killer. That’s all we will ask for,” Ramsey advised CNN.

He continued to say that he believed Boulder officers are utilizing “all out there instruments” to push the investigation ahead.

“Definitely DNA is a major device which I additionally consider has a excessive chance of figuring out the killer,” he mentioned.

He mentioned he is requested Boulder police to do extra DNA testing utilizing a more recent know-how referred to as genetic family tree, which has been used to resolve different high-profile chilly instances.

This replace comes after John — who discovered his daughter’s physique hours after she’d been reported lacking — questioned to True Crime Information about why a key piece of proof that was a part of his discovery of his daughter’s physique has by no means been absolutely examined.

When he discovered his daughter’s physique on Christmas Day in 1996, she had already sustained a damaged cranium, although her demise was dominated the results of asphyxiation. A garrote was drained round her neck.

“To my information it nonetheless hasn’t been examined,” John mentioned of the garrote within the September 2024 episode. “In the event that they’re testing it and simply not telling me, that is nice, however I’ve no motive to consider that.”

It is not only a generic check of the merchandise used to kill his daughter, both, as there may be purportedly male DNA that continues to be unidentified on the garrote.

In keeping with John, there are a minimum of seven gadgets that had been despatched to a lab in January 1997 for testing and “had been returned untested.”

In an interview with CNN’s Jean Casarez set to air Tuesday, Ramsey mentioned he believed genetic family tree “is the important thing” to fixing this case.

The know-how was not out there in December 1996, when he 6-year-old physique was discovered within the household’s basement the day after Christmas.

“The know-how is there, and we will insist and beg the police to make use of it. It would be absurd to not,” he advised CNN.

These untested samples aren’t the one issues that continues to be unknown, both, as JonBenét’s demise not solely stays unsolved, however police nonetheless haven’t any clear leads. There have been seemingly numerous individuals of curiosity over time, together with her household, however no clear suspects.

A handwritten ransom word was additionally discovered within the house JonBenét shared together with her household. Police in Boulder, Colorado initially suspected her mother Patsy of getting written the word, and each dad and mom of staging her physique within the basement to cowl up the homicide, and even her brother’s involvement.

In 1999, the district legal professional decided there was inadequate proof to pursue a profitable indictment. The following DA shifted their focus to a doable intruder because the assassin on account of hint DNA of an unknown male discovered on the sufferer’s clothes not matching any member of the family.

In 2008, the DA despatched a letter to the household stating they had been cleared by the DNA outcomes of any suspicion in relation to their daughter, however others weren’t so positive that was the fitting factor to do, and the court docket of public opinion positively stays unsure all these years later.