JonBenét Ramsey’s Father, Once A Suspect In 6-Year-Old’s Murder, Thinks He Knows Who Killed His Daughter

JonBenét Ramsey’s father believes he knows who killed his six-year-old daughter in 1996, despite 28 years and the unsolved murder’s long list of suspects.

Ramsey, a beauty pageant contestant, was found dead in her family’s basement in Boulder, Colorado on Christmas morning, alongside a threatening hand-written ransom note. She died from strangulation and a blow to the skull. The list of suspects for her murder has famously been extensive, with her parents and brother even making the list. Her former teacher, John Mark Kerr, confessed to killing her in 2006, but he was never charged in connection with the murder. 

Ramsey’s father, John, is still asking for police to investigate the case and find Ramsey’s murderer. He told The Today Show on Thursday, “There have been horrible failures… but I believe it can be solved if police accept help from outside their system. That’s been their flaw.”

He continued, “The fellow who investigated our case was an actor theft investigator before our case. I never criticized them for not having experiences – I criticized them for refusing help from people who did. And it was offered.”

John also has a suspect who did not cross the police’s list at the time of the investigation. Nine months after Ramsey’s death, a 12-year-old girl, also in Boulder, was raped by a masked intruder before the suspect was scared away by her mother. The rape took place at the family’s house just two miles down the road from where the Ramseys lived, and the two girls went to the same dance studio.

John told People, “To me, it could easily have been the same person.” However, according to John, “The police blew it off as, ‘No, it’s not the same.’”

He continued, “I think the method of operation was exactly the same…I believe the killer was in the house when we came home, waiting until we went to sleep.” In the other family’s case, “They came home, set the burglar alarm, and the killer was already in the house—a very similar method, and yet the police blew it off. It was the same investigator as our case.”

John even confirmed the possibility of the shared suspect with the other family’s father, who wrote off the police for their “bone-headed ignorance” during the investigation and agreed that the cases seemed starkly similar.

Last December, Boulder issued a press release that stated that the murder was being investigated by a multi-agency task force and that they hoped new technology would lead them to the definitive killer.

In 2016, JonBenét brother, Burke Ramsey, filed a $150 million defamation lawsuit against forensic pathologist Werner Spitz, who appeared on a documentary and suggested he could be the murderer.

A new three-part docuseries, Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey, will start streaming on Netflix as of Nov. 25.

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