JonBenét Ramsey’s Father Believes Case ‘Can Still Be Solved’—Here’s What Was Found at the Crime Scene

The murder of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey on Christmas Day in 1996 remains one of the most famous unsolved cases of the last fifty years. The child beauty queen was strangled to death and sexually assaulted, with her body being found by her father John Ramsay in the basement of the house the family lived in mere hours after her mother Patsy Ramsey, called the police to report a ransom note discovered at the bottom of a staircase on the morning of December 26, 1996.

Netflix’s new documentary Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey examines not just the case, but the reasons it has gone unsolved until now. And though the reasons are varied, and include severe mishandling in the investigation on the part of police and the fact that at the time he found her body, her father still believed she might be alive, so he quickly untied her and moved her, all these years later the family is still hoping they can find the killer.

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At the time of the murder both JonBenét’s parents Patsy and John and her brother Burke, then 9, were considered suspects. Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey doesn’t have any new answers, but it does seem to make clear that whatever happened to the little girl, her family was not involved. Ironically, since her family was the focus of the police investigation at the time, that leaves many stones unturned when it comes to who could have actually killed JonBenét Ramsey.

“What we are advocating for—and have been doing so for the last year or so, aggressively, is we know there’s five or six items that were taken from the crime scene. They were sent into a lab for DNA sampling and were not sampled,” John Ramsey said in the Netflix documentary. “We want those items sampled. We want what has been sampled to be retested. Then use the public genealogy database to look for — not only a match — but a similar relative,” he added. “That’s been used very successfully in the last few years by police departments to find the killer of very old cold cases.”

But what is the actual evidence in the JonBenét Ramsey? Are there crime scene photos? Here’s everything we know about what the police found at the crime scene.

JonBenét Ramsey Evidence and Crime Scene