JonBenét Ramsey’s Dad Issues Rare Plea to Police 28 Years After Murder

By Hayley Santaflorentina Nov 21, 2024 4:27 PMTags

This is not the archetypal clip John—who is JonBenét’s lone surviving parent, arsenic his wife Patsy Ramsey died successful 2006—has addressed this allegedly untested evidence.

As helium told True Crime News in September, “I don't cognize wherefore they didn't trial it successful the beginning. To my cognition it inactive hasn’t been tested. If they're investigating it and conscionable not telling me, that’s great, but I person nary crushed to judge that.”

E! News reached retired to the Boulder Police Department for remark connected John’s claims astatine the time, but owed to the information that JonBenét’s lawsuit is an progressive and ongoing investigation, the section said it is incapable to reply circumstantial questions astir actions taken oregon not taken.

In the astir 3 decades since JonBenét was found sexually assaulted, beaten and strangled with a garrote successful her family’s location the time aft Christmas—hours aft her parent had called constabulary to study her girl had been kidnapped—the lawsuit has captivated the nation, spawning aggregate TV specials hoping to uncover the truth.

And successful Netflix’s upcoming three-part docuseries Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey, the mode law enforcement and the media handled the case volition beryllium astatine the forefront of the investigation.

“The Boulder, Colorado police, who had small applicable acquisition successful homicide investigations,” reads a property merchandise from Netflix, “quickly formed suspicion connected JonBenét's household arsenic the astir apt suspects, fanning the flames of media scrutiny and mostly one-sided reporting, turning the lawsuit into a nationalist obsession. 28 years later, that obsession—and finger-pointing—hasn’t gone away, and the execution of JonBenét Ramsey remains unsolved.”

Among the areas promised to beryllium looked astatine wrong the bid is “the mishandling of the lawsuit by instrumentality enforcement and the media.”

After E! News reached retired to Boulder constabulary regarding the docuseries, the section declined to remark arsenic JonBenét’s lawsuit remains an unfastened and progressive homicide investigation.

Last year, Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold emphasized the department's committedness to the case, writing in a December property release, "We volition proceed to prosecute each leads and research exertion advancements to place JonBenét’s killer."

Despite the nationalist attraction connected the case, nary 1 was ever charged successful transportation with her death.

And successful the years since, JonBenét’s household continues to mourn.

“I deliberation astir her each day,” John told True Crime News. “I person her representation connected my cellphone to punctual him that she’s with maine successful immoderate mode that I don’t recognize oregon can’t comprehend.”