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The family of murder victim JonBenet Ramsey is encouraged by renewed attention given to the 25-year-old case.
“I think there’s a new way of thinking about this. I’m certainly encouraged,” John Andrew Ramsey, the half-brother of JonBenet, told Fox News Digital.
On April 30, JonBenet’s father, John Ramsey, announced the start of a petition calling on Colorado Gov. Jared Polis to allow the Ramsey family to hire an independent agency to test DNA in his daughter’s case.
JonBenet’s mother reported her missing to police when the girl was 6 years old on the morning of Dec. 26, 1996, in Boulder, Colorado, after discovering a lengthy ransom note demanding $118,000 in exchange for the girl. John Ramsey found her body later that same day in the basement of their home.
On Dec. 24, 1996, JonBenet Ramsey, a child beauty queen, was brutally murdered in her home in Boulder, Colo.
(Polaris/Discovery+)
Statements of commitment
The Boulder Police Department and Polis issued statements shortly after Ramsey made the call for independent testing at the CrimeCon conference in Las Vegas.
“Our investigation with federal, state and local partners has never stopped,” BPD Chief Maris Herold said in a statement. “That includes new ways to use DNA technology. We’ve always used state-of-the-art technology as it has been at the forefront of this investigation. Every time the DNA technology changed, we worked to make sure the evidence could be tested.”
JONBENET RAMSEY’S FATHER UNVEILS PETITION PRESSING COLORADO GOVERNOR TO ADVANCE DAUGHTER’S MURDER CASE
Polis told CBS Denver Monday that “the killer of JonBenet Ramsey should not rest easily.”
“I am still optimistic that he or she will be apprehended with technology that exists today and five years or in 10 years,” the governor said.
John Ramsey speaks to Paula Woodward at CrimeCon 2022.
(Fox News)
John Andrew Ramsey called the governor’s statement “encouraging” and…
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