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DNA evidence in JonBenet Ramsey’s murder did NOT match family members, but cops continued to float the idea that her parents were ‘under suspicion,’ new documents reveal
Despite police trying to project that the 1996 murder of child murder victim JonBenet Ramsey left her parents ‘under suspicion’, new documents have revealed that DNA evidence does not match her family members.
The revelation comes from a new book By former Texas sheriff and now author John W. Anderson, Lou & JonBenet: A Legendary Lawman’s Search to Solve the Murder of a Child Beauty Queen.
Anderson interviews Colorado investigator Lou Smit, who worked on the case until his death in 2010.
Smit argues that the evidence recovered under the girl’s fingernails and clothing did not match any family member or anyone close to the case.
Despite that, Smit says authorities continued to place parents Patsy Ramsey and John Bennett Ramsey under “an umbrella of suspicion” that led many to suspect them in the case.
The book will be published on February 28.
The body of JonBenet Ramsey (pictured) was found beaten and strangled in her basement hours after she was reported missing on December 26, 1996.
Ramsey’s father supported an online petition last year calling on the Colorado governor to intervene in the investigation into his death more than 25 years ago by putting an outside agency in charge of DNA testing in the case.
Anderson writes in the book: “For the past quarter century, Boulder police have ignored the DNA evidence that exonerated the Ramseys and that could be used to identify their killer.”
The 6-year-old girl was found dead in the basement of her family’s Boulder home on December 26, 1996, beaten and strangled, several hours after her mother called 911 to say her daughter was missing and that she was missing. he had left a ransom note. behind.
His death was ruled a homicide, but no one was ever prosecuted.
John and Patsy Ramsey, the parents of JonBenet Ramsey, meet with a small select group of local Colorado media after four months of silence in Boulder, Colorado on May 1, 1997.