John Ramsey, the father of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, a child beauty queen who was brutally murdered in 1996 has received a letter from a woman claiming to have married his daughter's killer.
The murder of JonBenet Ramsey has captivated the nation for years now as the past decades have seen multiple different investigations involving multiple agencies trying to solve the brutal killing that left the Ramsey family devastated.
The murder occurred on Boxing Day of 1996 and when police began their investigation it was John Ramsey who was the prime suspect.
It wasn't until 2008 when an old DNA sample from the crime scene identified the presence of an "unknown male," exonerating John Ramsey and his family all of whom were suspected at one point or another.
John Ramsey is now 81 and his wife, Patsy Ramsey, died in 2006 of cancer. However, despite everything he has lost, John Ramsey is still working to find his daughter's killer.
John Ramsey told The Daily Mail that he received a letter from an anonymous woman claiming that her ex-husband was the killer.
The letter read, "I’ve kept this inside for as long as I can - please, please call me." The woman had left her number in the letter which John Ramsey immediately dialed but there was no answer.
This comes after a popular Netflix series re-examining the case has brought attention to the case nearly 30 years later.
The series, titled Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey, has now been watched by millions and that has been a real boost for John Ramsey who has been delighted with the attention the series is generating despite the pain of reliving the case.
Ramsey stated, "You know, the police were doing nothing and had done nothing for 28 years, quite frankly, other than trying to explain away the evidence so they could prosecute Patsy or me and they couldn’t do it so they thought “oh well, we know who did it, but we can’t prove it so we’ll just forget about it." I think the documentary has brought a lot of renewed interest and it has kept pressure on the police to do their job."
For many years it felt like there was no hope that the case would be solved, but with so much attention on the Ramsey killing, there's hope that new information will come to light.
While the killer has yet to be found, what is known is that JonBenet was supposedly kidnapped on December 26 and a letter left on the stairs demanded the precise sum of $118,000 for her safe return.
This letter was presumably left by the killer but it only served to confuse the family as John Ramsey later discovered JonBenet in a disused boiler room in the basement. She’d been tortured, sexually assaulted and asphyxiated.
All of these facts led the police to suspect John and Patsy Ramsey until they were exonerated by DNA evidence. But the question remains if the case will actually be solved, especially before John Ramsey passes away.
