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Elizabeth Vargas Thinks JonBenet Ramsey's Murder Can Be Solved
JonBenét Ramsey’s father John Ramsey is inactive looking for answers 27 years after his daughter’s untimely death.
In fact, John alleges successful a caller TV bid that constabulary ne'er tested DNA recovered connected the limb utilized to execution his then-6-year-old girl successful their Colorado home.
“I don't cognize wherefore they didn't trial it successful the beginning,” Ramsey tells big Ana Garcia successful a preview for the Sept. 9 occurrence of True Crime News. “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, but owed to the information that JonBenét’s lawsuit is an progressive and ongoing investigation, the department said it is incapable to reply circumstantial questions astir actions taken oregon not taken.
JonBenét, the youngest kid of John and Patsy Ramsey was recovered sexually assaulted, beaten and strangled with a garrote successful her family’s location the time aft Christmas successful 1996 astir 8 hours aft Patsy—who died successful 2006—had frantically called the constabulary to study her girl had been kidnapped.
The case, which garnered nationalist attraction astatine the time, has continued to unrecorded connected successful infamy and has been the taxable of galore TV specials trying to get to the bottommost of what led to JonBenét’s death.
In fact, successful 2016, JonBenét's member Burke Ramsey broke his soundlessness connected the case, speaking to Dr. Phil McGraw, defending himself up of the CBS' two-part peculiar The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey, which alleged that helium could person been the 1 to termination his sister erstwhile helium was 10 years old.
Burke further responded to the CBS amusement by filing a $150 cardinal defamation lawsuit against one of its experts Dr. Werner Spitz, calling the forensic researcher a "publicity seeker" who "once again interjected himself into a high-profile lawsuit to marque unsupported, false, and sensational statements and accusations."
In December 2016, Spitz filed a question for the suit to beryllium dismissed with prejudice, according to documents obtained by E! News astatine the time, defending his Constitutional close to hypothesize and explicit his opinions astir the case.
In the documents, Spitz’s lawyers wrote that “the First Amendment protects this code connected a substance of immense nationalist concern" conscionable arsenic the galore different "people [who] person offered assorted and contradictory hypotheses and theories astir what happened."
The lawsuit was settled successful 2019. Burke's lawyer spoke retired soon aft the colony was reached astatine the time, tweeting, “After handling galore defamation cases for them implicit the past 20 years, hopefully this is my past defamation lawsuit for this good family.”
But portion the lawsuit has yet to beryllium solved, officials successful Boulder person made it wide they are inactive trying to bring justness to JonBenét. In a connection released up of the 25th day of JonBenet's decease successful 2021, the Boulder PD said that with the large advancements successful DNA testing, they had updated much than 750 samples utilizing the latest exertion and inactive hoped to get a lucifer 1 day.
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And arsenic the unanswered questions person continued to linger, galore who’ve investigated the calamity person wondered whether the lawsuit volition ever beryllium solved.
"There's inactive a bully accidental we'll ne'er know," writer Elizabeth Vargas, who hosted A&E's 2019 special Hunting JonBenét's Killer: The Untold Story, antecedently told E! News. "I don't deliberation it's imaginable 1 idiosyncratic did this. That's my ain opinion, truthful that means 2 people, and that means astatine slightest 2 radical retired determination cognize what happened."
She added, "It's unthinkable to maine that those radical person kept that secret, that radical they astir apt told successful their lives, due to the fact that that's a hard concealed to keep, that cipher has told. We person each sorts of acold cases that were solved decades later, and I deliberation this could beryllium 1 of them."
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