The father of murdered JonBenét Ramsey has revealed the latest development after meeting with local police to solve the decades-long cold case.
John Ramsey sat down Monday with Boulder, Colorado police to discuss new crime scene evidence in his daughter’s murder case.
Speaking to CNN in an interview which is set to air Tuesday, Ramsey said he had asked Boulder police to carry out more DNA testing to help solve the 28-year-old murder case using genetic genealogy.
The grieving father said that he was ‘very satisfied’ with the leadership now in place at the Boulder Police Department and believes that they are ‘committed to do all that can be done sing the latest technology and available resources to identify the killer’.
He added that Boulder cops are ‘continuing to move the investigation forward using all available tools and certainly DNA is a significant tool’.
Ramsey also told the broadcaster that he hoped continued media attention on his daughter’s murder might encourage someone with information on his daughter’s murder to come forward.
‘Please help us. I’m not vindictive. I just want an answer. And if you can help us with that, please call’, he added.
The latest interview comes after Ramsey said last month that he planned to propose conducting further DNA testing on several items recovered from the crime scene using revolutionary techniques.
The Ramsey family has a fractured history with the police department and have previously said that past administrations have been reluctant to keep working on the case.
JonBenét was found battered and strangled to death in the basement of her Boulder, Colorado home on December 26, 1996.
JonBenét Ramsey was found battered and strangled to death in the basement of her Boulder, Colorado home on December 26, 1996
JonBenet’s father John Ramsey speaks to CNN in December, telling the news broadcaster he’s optimistic after meeting with Colorado investigators
JohnBenet pictured with her parents John and Patricia Ramset and her brother Burke Hamilton Ramsey on December 3, 1993
Over the years there have been hundreds of tips, leads and possible suspects but nobody has been formally charged.
But Ramsey said he is more confident than ever that a breakthrough is imminent.
Several items which were previously DNA tested returned a match for an unidentified male and definitively ruled out Ramsey, his wife Patsy and their older son Burke as possible suspects after years of speculation.
The DNA was found under JonBenét’s fingernails, in her underwear and on several items such as the garrote used to strangle her and a blanket used to conceal her body/
‘I was told early on by experienced homicide detectives this wouldn’t have been a difficult case to solve, even in 1997’, Ramsey said.
Speaking about the importance of using genetic genealogy technology, Ramsey said: ‘I think it is the key. I think it’s the only way this case will be solved. Because the technology is there, and we’re going to insist and beg the police to use it. It’d be absurd not to’.
The technique has already proved successful in identifying Joseph James DeAngelo, the ‘Golden State Killer’ in 2018 and Ramsey is confident similar results can be achieved for his daughter.
It has been 28 years since Ramsey found JonBenét’s lifeless body hidden under a blanket in the basement of the family home.
Ransom note found following the murder of JonBenet
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 an interview
nvestigators with the Boulder Police Department Crime Lab prepare to enter the house at 755 15th Street, where 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was killed
She had been reported missing just hours earlier after he stricken mom found a ransom note on the stairs demanding $118,000 for her daughter’s safe return.
Patsy called 911 to report the incident and police responded quickly but the child’s body wasn’t found until hours later during a search led by Ramsey himself.
Suspicion quickly focused on the family, which soon established a strained relationship with Boulder Police Department.
A Netflix documentary released in November, Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey, addresses how misinformation about the case was spread widely by law enforcement and the media.
In the wake of the explosive Netflix documentary about the decades-old case, Ramsey received a letter from a woman claiming her ex-husband is his daughter’s killer.
John Ramsey said he immediately followed up on the tip, but is yet to hear back from the mystery sender, he told the Daily Mail.
