FIRST IN FOX – For nearly 26 years, John Ramsey has been trying to find out who killed his 6-year-old daughter, JonBenet Ramsey, in their Boulder, Colorado home one day after Christmas in 1996.
Most recently, the 78-year-old father of five has been pushing the Boulder Police Department (BPD) to turn over evidence in the case, which has been in its possession since the JonBenet murder, to an independent agency with more advanced capabilities. of DNA tests. than that of the Colorado government. Ramsey also sent a letter to Colorado Governor Jared Polis requesting an in-person meeting.
“I am now 78 years old and realize that time is running out for answers,” Ramsey said in his Oct. 3 letter to the governor. “My daughter’s murder can never be undone. There will never be peace or closure. But there can and must be justice. As a community, state and nation, we must demand that of ourselves and our leaders. Whoever is responsible for this has lived the last 25 years in fear of discovery, in fear that technology would one day evolve to the point where this homicide could be solved. That day, and that technology, is here now.”
He continued: “Solving my daughter’s murder will not fill the void in my heart, but it will identify and remove an insane and dangerous person from among us and, in doing so, potentially protect the lives of other children. There is nothing higher.” responsibility of a governor than that. As an elected leader, but more importantly as a parent, I respectfully ask you to do the right thing.”
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John Ramsey is asking Colorado Gov. Jared Polis to meet face-to-face to discuss his daughter’s 1996 murder case.
(Ramsey Family Brochure)
Ramsey sent the letter with a Change.org petition titled “Justice for JonBenet” that garnered nearly 29,000 signatures from across the country calling on the BPD to turn over evidence. There were 26,000 signatures on the petition when Ramsey shared it with Polis.
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The petition calls for Polis to order BPD to “transfer all DNA samples and crime scene evidence it may contain samples to an independent, outside agency of its choosing,” which “would then work with a private forensics lab, such as Othram or Parabon Nanolabs, which uses proven, state-of-the-art technology to analyze and sequence these samples,” Rasmey wrote in his letter.
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Ramsey told Fox News Digital that the governor had not responded directly to him as of Tuesday.
JonBenet’s mother reported the 6-year-old boy missing to police on the morning of December 26, 1996, after finding a lengthy ransom note demanding $118,000 in exchange for JonBenet. john ramsey found his body later that same day. He died by homicide by asphyxiation by strangulation and blunt force trauma to the head. His killer has yet to be identified.
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Ramsey is specifically asking Polis to “insert” himself into the case and “make a couple of things happen”: “One is to test the crime scene samples that we know have not been tested for DNA evidence. and… laboratory to do that,” he said.
The JonBenet Ramsey murder case has been unsolved for nearly 26 years.
(Ramsey Family Brochure)
“[T]The FBI told us this six or eight months ago: ‘We don’t have the latest technology that’s only available from these outside labs,’ and that’s where we need to go. And we want to get that done,” Ramsey explained. “And then hopefully … get that into the public genealogy database and work on that database to get information that has been very successful in some cold cases. very old”.
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The governor’s press secretary, Conor Cahill, told Fox News Digital that Polis’s office received Ramsey’s letter, but did not say whether the governor intends to meet with Ramsey.
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) “continues to collaborate with the Boulder Police Department and the district attorney’s office on this case,” Cahill said.
JonBenet Ramsey was murdered at her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado on December 26, 1996.
(Ramsey Family Brochure)
Cahill continued: “As well as talking to private DNA labs, [BPD] will consult with the Colorado Cold Case Review Team in 2023. The Cold Case Review Team is comprised of professional investigative, analytical, and forensic experts from across the state. The review team is another tool to assist cold case homicide investigations, including making recommendations based on best practices in the field of investigation.”
Ramsey previously told Fox News Digital that the BPD’s Nov. 9 announcement of its decision to consult with the Colorado Cold Case Review Team “seemed like more of the same, and that’s not what we need.”
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Ramsey believes that his recent efforts to shed new light on the case in recent years may have helped inspire the BPD’s decision to consult the cold case team, but he is hoping for something more and is open to taking possible legal action if it turns out. produce significant events in the case. case is not done soon.
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Even after 26 years have gone by without a suspect or any significant leads in his daughter’s case, Ramsey is also more hopeful than ever for answers and is “overwhelmed by the interest and the people who have supported us that we can tap into.” , as seen in the petition he sent to Polis, Ramsey said.
Jon Benet Ramsey
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He’s hoping to hear more about a fellow Boulder, Colo., father who recently spoke to the US Sun about his daughter’s sexual assault case that has similarities to the JonBenet murder case.
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The father identified himself only as “Amy’s father” in the US Sun and in a 2004 CBS article. The victim, Amy, was sexually assaulted by an unknown suspect who broke into her family home, and her bedroom , on the night of September 14, 1997. The girl reportedly attended the same Boulder dance school as JonBenet, the late private investigator Pete. Peterson told CBS 18 years ago.
JonBenet Ramsey would have turned 32 on Saturday, August 6, 2022.
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“The first thing that occurred to us was that it was a parallel to the Ramsey case because it was the exact same situation,” Amy’s father told CBS. “I think someone, somewhere, targeted her. She obviously had us under surveillance that we didn’t know about.”
BPD said they found out about the 1997 case after the US Sun report. Amy’s father and Ramsey share similar frustrations with BPD investigations into their daughters’ respective cases.
“They were completely uninterested,” Amy’s father told the outlet. “They didn’t care about this at all…they were just lying, telling us they would look into this or that, but they didn’t.”
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Ramsey doesn’t know who “Amy’s father” is, but has read about him online. He told Fox News Digital that BPD “dropped the ball” in both cases, and believes Amy’s story “needs to be highlighted” because of the similarities it shares with his daughter’s murder case, even though Amy she was not murdered.
Authorities are asking anyone with information related to the JonBenet investigation to contact 303-441-1974, BouldersMostWanted@bouldercolorado.gov or Crime Stoppers of Northern Colorado at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
