JonBenet Ramsey’s Father Meets with Boulder Police to Discuss Unsolved Murder Case
Twenty-eight years have passed since six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found strangled and bludgeoned to death in the basement of her family’s Boulder, Colorado home on December 26, 1996. Despite numerous investigations and tips, her killer remains unknown. JonBenet’s father, John Ramsey, met with Boulder Police Department Chief Stephen Redfearn this week to discuss the case and potential new leads.
Ramsey has been pushing police to retest certain evidence, including external male DNA that was discovered in 1997, and to test other items for the first time. He believes that advances in DNA technology and the use of private genetic genealogy databases could help identify a suspect in his daughter’s murder.
The Boulder Police Department has confirmed that Chief Redfearn and members of the Operations Division met with the Ramsey family this week to share updates on the case. However, due to the ongoing investigation, the department cannot answer specific questions.
Ramsey has been meeting with Boulder police at least once a year to discuss updates in the case. He is hopeful that partnering with an independent lab with access to private databases could be the next step in finding justice for his daughter. “That’s the one step that we’re asking the police to do is engage one of these one or two cutting-edge labs in the world and see what we come up with,” Ramsey said.
The 1996 JonBenet Ramsey case is still considered an active and ongoing investigation. Officials have sorted through 2,500 pieces of evidence and approximately 40,000 reports with more than a million pages documenting the investigation. The Colorado Cold Case Review team has also provided the BPD with a list of tips for the department to pursue.
