JonBenet Ramseyits father, John RamsayStill believe there is a chance of solving his murder almost three decades after a DNA breakthrough.
"We are excited that the police will finally use the expertise and resources of the FBI to help solve our case," John, 81, said. American Sun Thursday, December 26, marks the 28th anniversary of JonBenet's death.
John plans to sit down with Boulder's new police chief Stephen Redfern They will specifically discuss hiring the FBI to help with the case and Using new DNA tests To narrow down their suspect list.
"Suppose they now use state-of-the-art DNA labs to develop a DNA profile in the right format for family genealogy research," John noted. "In that case, we have a pretty good chance of finding the killer's identity."
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John and Redfern are expected to meet in January for assistance from advanced forensic experts today. DNA profiling involving genealogy has proven successful in the past in high-profile cases such as the Golden State Killer.
The renewed interest in JonBenet comes after Netflix released their three-part docuseries Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsay?. In 1996, 6-year-old JonBenet was found dead in the basement of his home, hours after his disappearance. His official cause of death was strangulation with craniocerebral trauma and his death was ruled a homicide.
Over the years, Boulder police have looked into many suspects and theories, including her brother, Burke Ramsayand JonBenet's parents, Patsy and John. A grand jury Pair accused votes in 1999, but the Boulder District Attorney never signed the charges due to lack of evidence. The couple was released in 2008 and Advocacy continues To find JonBenét's killer. (Patsy died of ovarian cancer in 2006.)
“What we're advocating — and have been doing for the last year or so, aggressively, is that we know there are five or six items that were taken from the crime scene. "They were sent to a lab for DNA sampling and they weren't sampled," John told the camera in the three-part doc. — not just a match — but a similar relative. It's been used very successfully by police departments in the past few years to track down very old cold case killers."
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A Boulder PD spokesman said our weekly In a statement in November that they are "aggressively investigating the case and pursuing all avenues." Meanwhile, a source connected with the authorities has given this information our "Fresh eyes are set" on the case in an attempt to find "anything that could be overlooked".
“No one is off the table. This case is still wide open," the insider noted. "We're after the truth, whatever it is. We're going to leave no stone unturned. All we can do for Ramses is solve this."
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