Mixed in with that blood is the DNA of an unknown person. The crime lab has two spots of JonBenet's blood found on the underwear she was wearing the night of the murder. He believes he has the DNA for the man he suspects is the killer of JonBenet Ramsey: "It would be very, very helpful to the investigation to have that DNA matched to an individual." "I believe the technology of today makes it extraordinarily difficult for a killer not to leave his calling card," says police forensic specialist Greg LaBerge, referring to the suspect's complete DNA profile. What's more, detectives are now seriously investigating a lead that was ignored years earlier: a report of an unknown blue van spotted outside the Ramsey house the night before and the day after JonBenet was murdered.Īfter a murder investigation that went nowhere, the answer to the question, "Who killed JonBenet," is likely in the Denver police department crime lab. And, there's another clue investigators are interested in: a rope found in the bedroom next to JonBenet's. The current investigation also focuses on the possibility of two intruders, because of two very clear, and different, boot prints in the room where JonBenet was found. This murder was conducted in a basement, and it was very vicious."Īutopsy results showed evidence that JonBenet may have been subdued with a stun gun, and then eventually killed with an intricately tied device known as a garrot. He can no longer speak publicly, but he spoke to 48 Hours back in 2002: "This murder was not conducted upstairs in a nice bedroom. Now, he's back on the case, working for the Boulder district attorney. Lou Smit, who once quit because police ignored the intruder theory. "I don't think the Ramseys did it and I think they ought to start looking for the people that did," says retired homicide Det. "All the crime that was actually going on, I don't think that the Ramseys had any clue that this was going on," says Gray.įrom the outset, police never seriously considered the evidence that someone outside the Ramsey family may have killed JonBenet.
What these private detectives have also discovered is that in the months before JonBenet's murder, there were more than 100 burglaries in her neighborhood. Within a two-mile radius of where the Ramseys once lived, 38 of their neighbors are registered sex offenders. "When you start turning rocks over in Boulder, you know, stand back," adds Gray. "And nobody really looked into the intruder theory." "From the get-go, Patsy and John were the focus of JonBenet's murder," says San Augustin. He and Ollie Gray were originally hired by the Ramseys in 1999, and they are now part of a small band of private detectives, working without pay, and determined to find JonBenet's killer. "A lot of people don't really think about, 'Let's go find out who's their next door neighbor.' It's not until something big happens that we worry about who are our neighbors," says John San Augustin. Now, eight years later, 48 Hours reports that investigators are no longer focusing on the Ramsey family.ĭetectives working for the Boulder district attorney now believe that one, possibly two, intruders entered the Ramsey home and killed JonBenet and they are finally concentrating their efforts on the underside of Boulder that was largely ignored during the initial investigation. Throughout the lengthy and sometimes hostile police interrogations, both in 19, the Ramseys maintained their innocence. Headlines that they were devil worshipers. "Headlines that John and Patsy were pornographers. Absolutely false," says Lin Wood, the Ramsey attorney. "You couldn't go to buy groceries for your family without passing headlines that said that John Ramsey had molested his first daughter. Instead, they leaked information to the media - sometimes fabricated information, charges of pornography and sexual abuse - to put pressure on the Ramseys. 26, 1996, with a 911 call from JonBenet's mother, Patsy Ramsey.īoulder police responded immediately to Ramsey's call for help, and what first looked like a kidnapping quickly became a murder, when JonBenet's body was found by her father in a small storage room in the basement of her house.īecause of the bizarre ransom note, and the fact that JonBenet was killed in her own home, detectives focused on her parents, John and Patsy, as their prime suspects.īoulder police brushed aside the thousands of leads that came in, and dismissed the possibility that an intruder had somehow slipped inside the house and committed the murder. The nightmare began eight years ago, in the early hours of Dec. And investigators hope new evidence will finally lead to a break in the case. It's where the answer to Boulder's most notorious unsolved murder, the case of JonBenet Ramsey, may be found.
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