IS THE JONBENET CASE STILL OPEN SERIAL
True crime author Amanda Howard is known as The Serial Killer Whisperer due to the information she gets out of these monsters. Now there are reports that police have collected DNA evidence from the neighbour of JonBenét. The death of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenét sent shockwaves around the world. On Boxing Day 1996 the world woke up to the news the little girl had been kidnapped, but what was to follow was much worse. The District Attorney's Office has taken over the investigation, said spokeswoman Caroline French.Amanda Howard on The Anj, Rob and Robbo Show Police investigators, friends and family were allowed to walk in and out of the house freely, again contaminating evidence that could have been gathered. When, for example, police arrived and directed John Ramsey to search his own home, Ramsey not only found his dead daughter but also picked her up and brought her upstairs, disturbing the crime scene. Many experts have said they believe Boulder police botched the investigation by failing to preserve the crime scene properly. The contradictory facts have caused problems in the case. Lou Smits, a lead police investigator on the case, resigned because, he said, the investigation "was misdirected and had developed tunnel vision, only focusing on the Ramseys as suspects and not following alternative leads." Police say they were initially suspicious of the Ramseys because there were no footprints in the snow outside the house. A footprint of a Hi-Tec hiking boot was found in the dust in the wine cellar and cannot be connected to anyone in the Ramsey family or their friends. There was a scuff mark on the wall beneath the window. A suitcase stood directly below the window, and appeared to have been used as a step. Other nagging clues include an open basement window near where the child's body was found. However, the sources for the cord and duct tape were not found anywhere in the home. Investigators also concluded that the paper the ransom note was written on came from a notepad in the Ramsey home, as did the broken paintbrush handle used to form the garrote. Private investigators Ollie Gray and John San Augustin, working as consultants on the case, said the burns are consistent with marks made with a "stun gun." She'd been sexually assaulted, strangled by the cord and struck on the head.Ĭrime scene photos show two small burn-type injuries on JonBenet's head. The child's body was wrapped in a blanket, with duct tape across her mouth and white cord wrapped around her neck and wrists.Īn autopsy showed the child had eaten pineapple shortly before she died. Shortly afterward, Ramsey and White found JonBenet's body in a wine cellar in the basement. When police arrived, they suggested that John Ramsey and a family friend, Fleet White, search the house.
The Ramseys checked JonBenet's room, discovered she was missing and immediately called 911. It said JonBenet had been kidnapped by a "small foreign faction" and that she'd be executed if the Ramseys did not pay a $118,000 ransom. Patsy Ramsey told police she awoke early December 26 and found a two-page, handwritten ransom note on a back staircase. Investigators theorized that a strangulation was then staged to direct suspicion toward an intruder or sexual predator. The investigators' working theory was that JonBenet's mother may have struck her in anger as punishment for bed-wetting, causing the little girl's death on Christmas night. They are waiting for a match.įrom the beginning, police focused their attention on Patsy Ramsey, placing the entire family under what authorities later would admit was a cloud of suspicion. Police believe the DNA belongs to the killer.
This so-called touch DNA also was found in JonBenet's underpants, mixed with the child's blood. Patsy Ramsey died of cancer in June 2006.įBI lab results confirmed that a man, yet to be identified, touched JonBenet's long underwear. Just this past July, John and Patsy Ramsey were exonerated by police of having any role in their daughter's death. Watch how this case touched nearly everyone »
A tiny, lifeless body, dressed in long johns, found on the basement floor by her father. After years of false starts, there are no solid leads.įor many, the images of this tragic story are indelible: A doll-like child smiling flirtatiously at the camera in flamboyant costumes, heavy makeup and grown-up hairstyles parading on a beauty pageant stage.
The investigation has taken many heartbreaking twists and turns, including a false confession and baseless suspicions cast for a time on the child's parents. Twelve years have passed, and again it is Christmastime, the season of JonBenet's death. The strangulation of JonBenet Ramsey is also among the coldest of cases. A 6-year-old girl, a child of beauty and privilege, was found dead in the basement of her home in Boulder, Colorado, on the day after Christmas 1996. NEW YORK (CNN) - It is one of the most notorious cold cases in recent memory.
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