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Even though JonBenét Ramsey passed away suddenly 27 years ago, her father, John Ramsey, is still searching for closure. In fact, John claims in a recent television show that the Colorado police never tested the DNA found on the weapon used to kill his daughter, who was six years old at the time, in their home.
In a sneak peek for the True Crime News episode airing on September 9, host Ana Garcia is told by Ramsey, "I don't know why they didn't test it in the beginning." As far as I'm aware, no testing has been done on it. It's fantastic if they're testing it and keeping me in the dark, but I have no reason to think that.
The day after Christmas in 1996, JonBenét, the youngest child of John and Patsy Ramsey, was found strangled with a garrote, beaten, and sexually assaulted in her family's home. Patsy, who passed away in 2006, had called the police in a panic, believing her daughter had been abducted.
The case of JonBenét Ramsey, which attracted widespread attention, has been the focus of multiple television programs and scandals. Burke Ramsey, JonBenét's brother, spoke out about the case in 2016 and offered his defense in a CBS special titled The Case of JonBenét Ramsey. Burke accused Dr. Werner Spitz of being a "publicity seeker" who made sensational, unfounded, and unsupported claims in the well-known case and filed a $150 million defamation lawsuit against him.
Spitz argued his constitutional right to make assumptions and voice opinions about the case in a 2016 move to dismiss the lawsuit with prejudice. His attorneys contended that, like many others who present opposing theories, he is entitled to free speech on a matter of great public concern under the First Amendment. After managing numerous cases over the previous 20 years, Burke's attorney expressed hope that this would be his last defamation case for the Burke family when the case was settled in 2019.
To solve the murder of JonBenét, Boulder police have updated over 750 DNA samples with state-of-the-art technology. According to the Boulder Police Department, they're still hoping to find a match. Still, there are a lot of unanswered questions, which makes one wonder if the case will ever be resolved. Journalist Elizabeth Vargas suggests that at least two people are aware of what happened and feels it is unlikely that a single person committed the murder. She also thinks that it's difficult to keep the murder's secret and that this case might be one of many unsolved cold cases that is finally solved decades later.
