JonBenet Ramsey’s father is backing an online petition asking the Colorado governor to intervene in the investigation into her death more than 25 years ago, by setting up an outside DNA testing service in the case. The 6-year-old was found dead in the basement of her family home in Boulder on December 26, 1996, tanned and strangled, several hours after her mother called 911 to say that her daughter had disappeared and that a ransom note had been left. . Her death was declared a homicide, but no one was ever prosecuted. John Ramsey said he wanted DNA evidence that had never been tested before being transferred away from Boulder police to another service, KUSA-TV reported on Sunday. “Somehow we have to force the police, or take it away from them, the ability to go ahead and test some of the elements of the crime scene that have never been tested for DNA,” he said. “Why this has never happened and will never happen by the police confuses me.” The report notes that advances in DNA and the use of genetic genealogy are leading to the resolution of more cold cases across the country. The Boulder Police Department criticizes the police for not doing enough to use DNA to solve the case, noting that the department said on the 25th anniversary of JonBenet’s death that it was “actively examining DNA genetic testing procedures” to see if they could be applied to the case. In a statement, a spokesman for Gov. Jared Polis said, “The state will review the report and look at how the state can help use new technology to further investigate this cold-blooded affair and locate the killer of John Bennett Ramsey.” The statement did not mention the involvement of Boulder police. Boulder police, meanwhile, said they were working with state law enforcement and the FBI to investigate and that DNA from the case was being checked regularly for new fights. As of December, the Colorado Research Bureau had updated more than 750 DNA samples from the latest DNA technology research, the department said in a statement. “We have a common goal to bring justice – and hope for some peace – to JonBenet’s family and all those affected by her loss,” said Police Chief Maris Herold in a statement. The police department was criticized for the initial handling of the investigation into the death of JonBenet, who had competed in a beauty pageant. The details of the crime and JonBenet’s video of the contests led the case to one of the biggest mysteries in the United States, releasing a series of true crime books and television tributes. While the prosecutor at the time of JonBenet’s death said her parents were under an “umbrella of suspicion” early on, a 2008 DNA test recently found on her clothes showed an “unexplained third party” involved in her murder, not her parents. of, John and Patsy Ramsey, or their son, Burke. That led former prosecutor Mary Lacy to acquit the Ramseys of any involvement, two years after Patsy Ramsey died of cancer, calling the couple “victims of this crime”.
