On Friday, Colorado police shared their annual update on the ongoing investigation into the 1996 murder of JonBenét Ramsey.
Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn announced that detectives have conducted a series of new interviews and revisited past ones based on fresh tips. They have also gathered new evidence and re-examined existing materials, hoping to uncover new leads.
Redfearn did not disclose the identities of those interviewed in connection with Ramsey’s unresolved case over the past year, nor did he specify which new evidence was tested.
“Techniques and technology are continually advancing, particularly in the realm of DNA testing,” he noted.
Earlier in the year, JonBenét’s father, John Ramsey, revealed that police had informed him that the degraded DNA found on his daughter’s underwear is currently unsuitable for genealogy testing due to technological limitations.
In 1996, six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was discovered bludgeoned and strangled in the basement of her Boulder home, just hours after she was reported missing and a ransom note was found at the scene.
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Earlier this year, the slain girl’s father, John Ramsey, said he learned from police that degraded DNA recovered from his daughter’s underwear could not undergo genealogy testing because the technology is not advanced enough.
In 1996, JonBenét Ramsey, 6, was found bludgeoned and strangled in the basement of her Boulder home hours after she was reported missing and a ransom note was discovered at her residence.
John Ramsey has pressed Boulder police to retest evidence with updated genetic technology to obtain new leads in their daughter’s unsolved murder. He also urged the FBI to make child murder a federal crime — allowing the agency to automatically intervene in cases involving children 12 and younger.
Specifically, John Ramsey wants investigators to test external male DNA that federal authorities disclosed in 1997.
“That’s an important meeting. We’re going to have a representative with us for one of these cutting-edge labs to explain what they can and can’t do. Hopefully, he will accept their help,” he told Fox last year, referring to a meeting he was to have with Boulder police in December 2024.
No arrests have been made in the 1996 slaying. The slain girl’s mother, Patsy Ramsey, died of ovarian cancer in 2006.
Anyone with information regarding JonBenét Ramsey’s murder should call or email the Boulder Police Department at 303-441-1974 or BouldersMostWanted@bouldercolorado.gov.
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