JonBenet Ramsey Murder Case: New Investigation Launched as Police Seek Help From Colorado Cold Case Team

The Boulder Police Department will seek the help of the Colorado cold case team with regards to the investigation into the JonBenet Ramsey murder case.

The Boulder Police Department announced the new development on the Ramsey's murder case on Thursday, noting in its news release that it will be consulting with the Colorado Cold Case Review Team come the year 2023.

The statement said detectives had investigated leads from more than 21,000 tips, letters, and emails. Law enforcement officials also traveled to 19 states to interview or speak with more than 1,000 individuals.

State and local partners continue to provide assistance to the investigation regarding the murder of the 6-year-old beauty pageant queen nearly 26 years ago.

Boulder police will also work with several agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the District Attorney's Office, and Colorado's Department of Public Safety. Colorado's Bureau of Investigation and several other DNA laboratories across the country also participated in Ramsey's murder case.

Boulder police Chief Maris Herold said in the statement that the murder case "has left a hole in the heart of many." He added that law enforcement will not stop until they find JonBenet Ramsey's killer.

JonBenet Ramsey Murder Case

JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered in her Colorado home on December 26, 1996. Reports revealed that the six-year-old girl's skull had been fractured.

Her mother, Patsy, found a three-page handwritten ransom note on stationary inside the house. The letter was demanding $118,000 for her safe return. Patsy called the police immediately. It then started friends and family's search inside the house.

Fox News reported that everyone in the house was possibly destroying evidence that could be used in the case while they were searching for the young girl.

Her dad, John, then found the girl in the basement of their home with her mouth covered in duct tape, her wrist wrapped with a cord, her neck wrapped with a cord attached to a stick, and was covered in a blanket.

John brought his daughter's body upstairs after she was found. The JonBenet Ramsey murder case remains open, and her death remain unsolved.

JonBenet Ramsey Murder Investigation

Police conducted the first formal interviews with John and Patsy on April 30, 1997. Throughout the year, the couple remained under "an umbrella of suspicion."

The following year, JonBenet Ramsey's parents refused to participate in a second interview with detectives. They noted that they will not cooperate unless the police allowed them to review the evidence in the case.

In 1999, Boulder County District Attorney Alex Hunter noted that there will be no indictments due to lack of evidence. In 2006, Patsy died of ovarian cancer at age 49. That same year, a man identified as John Mark Karr was arrested.

Karr allegedly told an investigator that he drugged the young girl and sexually assaulted her before accidentally killing her. However, charges were dropped against him after DNA tests failed to connect him to the crime scene.

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Written by: Mary Webber

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