It has been decades since six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered, but her father, John Ramsey, believes the case can be solved.
JonBenet's now 80-year-old father told NewsNation that the killing has a "good chance" of being solved with the latest DNA technology.
“We want them (police) to do more,” Ramsey said during an appearance on NewsNation's Elizabeth Vargas Reports.
John and his late wife Patsey Ramsey became the prime suspects in the eyes of police and the media after the killing of JonBenet, which became an international story.
A new Netflix series has reignited interest in the 1996 murder and the theory that an intruder was responsible.
John Ramsey believes that new methods of DNA analysis, like genetic genealogy, can help lead the police to the killer.
“If they use the latest DNA technology, collaborate with labs, and use familial genealogy research, which successfully finds solutions to old cold cases. If they do that, there’s a good chance we can solve it," he said.
John Ramsey discovered the dead body of his six-year-old in the basement of his Boulder, Colorado home, hours after her parents found a strange ransom note and reported the girl missing.
John said he and Patsey understood the initial suspicion of him and his wife, but the cops pinned them as the killers early on and never considered other possibilities.
“We were in the home. We think it’s horrible, but we accept that,” Ramsey said. “But don’t stop there. That was their conclusion.”
Some have speculated that an intruder killed JonBenet, possibly a pedophile who developed an interest in the child beauty queen.
John Ramsey has been making the rounds of the media to build pressure to solve the killing, as a new Netflix series, Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey sparks fresh interest in the tragedy.
The series looks at alternative suspects, including John Mark Karr, a teacher who was arrested in Thailand after confessing to killing JonBenet in 2006. But his DNA did not match the crime scene, and he was ruled out.
In 2008, the Ramseys were ruled out by a former prosecutor after DNA pointed to an unidentified third party.
Responding to the renewed public interest in the case, Boulder Police have denied claims that they are withholding evidence.
“The assertion that there is viable evidence and leads we are not pursuing — to include DNA testing — is completely false,” Boulder Police said.
