New DNA testing has been completed which may help solve the decades-old murder of child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey.
New evidence is discovered
New evidence, as well as some which was previously reviewed, have been analyzed by a criminal lab and returned to police.
The results have yet to be released, but a detailed DNA report has been issued to the authorities.
A police source told The Messenger: ‘Time will tell if this is the evidence needed to solve this case.
‘I hope we get answers, and more importantly, I hope her family finally gets answers.’
When was the child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey murdered?
It is hoped the development could help solve the brutal 1996 murder of the Colorado six-year-old.
The beauty pageant contestant was discovered strangled and beaten in the basement of her family’s Boulder home on December 26, seven hours after she was reported missing.
Where she was found after reportedly missing
The child was found covered by a white blanket with a nylon cord around her neck, her wrists bound above her head and her mouth covered by duct tape.
There was no clear-cut evidence of rape, but police did not rule out sexual assault.
A bizarre ransom note was also uncovered demanding $118,000 from her family.
Cause of death
The coroner determined that the pageant girl’s cause of death was ‘asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma,’ meaning she had been choked and beaten.
Her death was ruled as a homicide, but nobody was ever charged with the murder.
JonBenét’s body was discovered by her father John Ramsey, and over the years both he and his wife Patsy and their son Burke, who was just nine-years-old at the time of his sister’s death, have been under a cloud of suspicion.
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The Ramseys were formally taken off the suspects list in 2008, two years after Patsy died from ovarian cancer. In 2019, Burke sued CBS for $750 million over a documentary it broadcast which pointed the finger at him for him for his sister’s death.
Last month, Ramsey discussed the DNA evidence on an episode of NewsNation.
‘We know there’s evidence that was taken from the crime scene that was never tested for DNA,’ he said.
The new development that could help solve the murder case
‘There are a few cutting edge labs that have the latest technology. That’s where this testing ought to be done.
‘And then use the public genealogy database with whatever information we get to research and basically do a backwards family tree, which has been wildly successful in solving some very old cases.’
Sources do not believe any of the new DNA evidence will provide a match for the family.
At the time, unmatched DNA was found under the child’s fingernails and on her clothes.
The case garnered national attention due to the shocking nature of the crime and the prominence of JonBenét in her local community, where she known as the winner of Little Miss Colorado.
