This takes me back, always wondered who it was :dunno:
Police to quiz JonBenet Ramsay's ******* as beauty queen ****** is reopened after 14 years
JonBenet Ramsay was found dead in her ****** home on December 26, 1996
It was a ****** that shocked the world.
***** beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, dubbed Little Miss Sunshine, was just six when her body was found in the cellar of her ****** home in 1996.
She’d been sexually assaulted, beaten and then *********.
Despite hundreds of interviews and the finger of suspicion being pointed at her parents, police never solved the case.
But yesterday, in a fresh twist, it emerged that officers are planning to question JonBenet’s *******, Burke, who was just nine at the time of the *******.
Police, acting on the recommendations of an advisory committee that sifted through the evidence last year, hope that re-questioning and applying the latest DNA technology may open up the seemingly intractable case.
The investigation into JonBenet’s ****** has proved one of the most acrimonious in U.S. criminal history.
Detectives have feuded publicly, and the Ramseys have sued and been sued for defamation.
JonBenet, pictured with her ******* Burke, who is now 23. He was just nine when his ****** was found ********* and beaten in the basement of the ****** home
JonBenet's parents John and Patsy were officially cleared as suspects two years ago. Mrs Ramsay died of cancer in 2006
Patsy Ramsey, a former Miss West Virginia, told police she discovered her ******** missing in December 1996 after finding a ransom note demanding $118,000 (£74,000) for her safe return.
The body of the beauty pageant princess was later found in the basement, covered by a white blanket, with a nylon cord around her neck, her wrists bound above her head and her mouth covered by duct tape.
Investigators were immediately suspicious that the girl’s body was found in her own home in Boulder, Colorado, and said the parents were under an ‘umbrella of suspicion’.
Police initially worked on the theory that Mrs Ramsey had ****** her ******** in a fit of rage after she wet her bed and that her husband – who as a former naval officer would have been able to tie the complicated knot around the girl’s neck – helped cover up the crime.
Investigators suspected Mrs Ramsey had written the ransom note.
Another theory speculated that Mr Ramsey, a wealthy businessman, had ******** the girl to cover up sexual *****. Despite his age, Burke also came under suspicion.
Mrs Ramsey said he had been ****** when she found the ransom note but there were reports that his voice could be heard in the background when his ****** rang police.
Boulder police gave up the case in 2002, in part because of accusations that they had bungled the investigation by ruining evidence and concentrating solely on the Ramseys as suspects.
In 2008 – two years after Mrs Ramsey’s death from cancer – the Boulder County district attorney told the Ramseys they had been exonerated by the discovery of DNA traces of an unidentified male on the pyjamas worn by JonBenet on the night she died.
Prosecutors said the DNA was not from the Ramsey ****** and was almost definitely that of the killer.
Mark Beckner, Boulder’s police chief, would not comment on the investigation. ‘We continue to work the Ramsey case. This has included additional contacts and interviews with those who may have information pertinent to the case,’ he said.
Lin Wood, the Ramsey ****** lawyer, said Burke, now 23, had been contacted by police but not yet interviewed. ‘I understand they met with Burke and gave him a card and said, “If you want to talk to us, here’s how you would contact me”,’ he said.
The ****** of the six-year-old beauty queen remains one of America's most notorious unsolved mysteries
A FALSE LEAD
Schoolteacher John Mark Karr falsely claimed he ****** JonBenet, but was exonerated after tests showed his DNA did not match that found in her underwear.
Karr, 41, was arrested in Thailand and brought to Colorado over the case after telling a colleague in emails that he was involved in her death.
He told reporters after his arrest that he was with JonBenet when she died, although he called her death an accident and said he loved her.
But members of his ****** insisted he was out of the state at the time of JonBenet’s ****** and could not have been involved in the crime.
Karr, who has faced a number of criminal charges, was dismissed as an attention-seeking eccentric.
It has since been reported that he has had a sex-change operation and is now called Alexis Valoran Reich.
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