Her father says that the police may already have the long-awaited answer to the question of who killed JonBenét Ramsey in 1996.
According to an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Boulder, Colorado police will not allow DNA testing of pieces of evidence that could be very important.
These include the handmade garrote that the father used to strangle his 6-year-old daughter and other things found at the crime scene.
“We beg the police to get involved,” says Ramsey, who is 80 years old. “Some state-of-the-art DNA labs want to help and think they can move the case forward.”
He says, “The chief of police is in charge in Boulder.” He has to ask for help to solve the crime before anyone else can come in.
“They are not being asked to do anything strange,” John says. “Just do your job.” Check the DNA.Ramsey tells PEOPLE everything in an exclusive interview before the season 2 premiere of Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey? on Netflix on November 25.
The three-part series looks again at one of the most famous and shocking murder cases ever. John found his young daughter, a beauty pageant queen, dead in a rarely used basement room in a nice area of Boulder, Colorado, on the morning of December 26, 1996.
A scary handwritten ransom note was also found in John and Patsy’s house. It was likely left there by the killer. But the parents of the dead girl were quickly linked to the murder of JonBenét Ramsey, who was raped and killed by being strangled and hit in the head.
Another person who thought they knew who killed their sister was their 9-year-old son Burke.
John says, “We thought the police would be smart and say, ‘Yeah, this is crazy to think that [we] killed our child.'” “Well, they didn’t.” From the first day, they made that choice and worked hard to prove it.
The three-part documentary series goes into great detail about what John Ramsey thinks were mistakes made by the authorities while they were investigating Jon Benét’s murder in the midst of an international media frenzy that made things more difficult.
John wants modern labs that use genetic genealogy and other advanced DNA technology to check out seven items from the crime scene that he says have never been tested or have been checked out using old methods. He thinks this will help solve the cold case.
“Of the first things that were sent to labs, six or seven were sent back without being tested,” he says. “They were not tested, and we do not know why.” A lot of things, including the garrote used to choke Jon Benét, were just sent back.
The dramatic ransom note and a suitcase found under an open basement window are also pieces of evidence. This is where some people think the killer entered and left the house.
That being said, they needed a different type of sample for the most recent work, which was genealogy research.
That is why we have been pushing for more testing to be done by a few of these very cutting edge labs so that they can get a sample in the right format that they can use for genealogy research and searching.
There were never any charges brought against John, Patricia, or Burke for the murder. She passed away in 2006.
Even though it is been almost 30 years since his daughter was killed, Ramsey still hopes that the killer will be caught.
“It will never be solved as long as it is with the Boulder Police,” he tells PEOPLE. “It will be solved if they admit they need help and take all the help that is out there.” “Yes, I think it will be worked out.”
