Previously unaired interviews with JonBenét Ramsey's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, and the late Barbara Walters, have been re-released following the release of a new documentary about the 1996 murder of the six-year-old pageant star. surfaced.
JonBenét was found dead in the basement of her family's Boulder, Colorado, home the day after Christmas 28 years ago, sparking continued public interest and recent calls for John Ramsey to reexamine evidence at the crime scene. Despite prompting, the case remains unsolved to this day. Researching DNA using new technologies.
“The ransom note had a strange number written on it – $118,000. That was the bonus you received,” said Walters, then the host of ABC's “20/20.” Ta. say in an interviewAccording to ABC, the project was launched in 2000 but was never aired.
“Well, one of the theories I came up with is that it was close to the net amount he received in bonuses that year,” John Ramsey told Walters. “The number 18 means something to the murderer. We know it. We believe it. Is it related to my bonus or just the murderer? We don't know if it's something we know.”
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After four months of silence, Jon and Patsy Ramsey, parents of JonBenet Ramsey, meet with a select group of local Colorado media on May 1, 1997 in Boulder, Colorado. do. Patsy holds up a sign offering a reward for information leading to an arrest. About the person who killed my daughter. On Christmas night in 1996, their 6-year-old daughter was found dead. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
When Walters asked Patsy Ramsey, who died six years after the 2006 interview, if she knew how much her husband's bonus was, she replied, “I didn't know then, I don't know.”
The interview resurfaced after the November premiere of the Netflix documentary “Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey.”
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Patsy Ramsey was pictured with her daughter JonBenét, whose murder remains unsolved. (Courtesy of Netflix)
John Ramsey, 80, recently told FOX News Digital in September that he feels optimistic about the new leadership of the Boulder Police Department (BPD), which officially appointed a new police chief on September 6. He said he is doing so.
Commissioner Stephen Redfern, who served as Interim Commissioner. Chief of HPD Starting in January, he will be the fifth BPD police chief to take charge of the JonBenét Ramsey case since 1996.
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Ramsey told Fox News Digital that she wants BPD to turn over evidence in the case involving her nearly 30-year-old daughter. Murder case to FBI“at least” to allow federal authorities to test and retest possible foreign DNA evidence, including the foreign male DNA uncovered in 1997.
“The tests they did in 1997 yielded DNA results for an unidentified man, which…was primitive by today's standards,” Ramsey explained. “But we had a DNA sample of an unidentified man, which was reported to the police in January 1997. The police kept it secret. It contradicts the police's conclusion that we are guilty. How can we explain that? They tried desperately.
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In this January 3, 1997 file photo, a police officer sits in a cruiser outside the home where 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was found murdered in Boulder, Colorado. (AP Photo/David Zarbowski, File)
proof that never existed tested for DNA traces Among them are the garrote that was tied around JonBenét's neck, a ransom note found in Ramsey's home the morning of the murder, and a suitcase found in the basement that authorities believe the perpetrators used to escape through a window. ), and an unknown flashlight found in the Ramsey family's kitchen. As previously reported by Fox News Digital, public records first obtained by journalist Paula Woodward dispute that an unknown rope was found in her brother Burke Ramsey's room on the morning of the murder. .
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In 1999, a grand jury indicted both John and his wife, Patsy Ramsey, for the crime. Child abuse that led to JonBenet's deathHowever, then-District Attorney Alex Hunter refused to sign the indictment, citing a lack of evidence to warrant criminal charges against the parents. Prosecutors ultimately dropped the case against John and Patsy in 2006.
“Chief Redfern continues to have a dialogue with the Ramsey family and there are no plans to change that,” BPD said in a statement in September.
