Could JonBenét Ramsey murder finally be SOLVED? Colorado cold case investigators have made secret new recommendations to cops they hope could crack child pageant queen's 1996 slaying
Daily MailThe six-year-old pageant queen was reported missing then found strangled and beaten to death in her family's upscale Boulder home in December 1996 Colorado Police have announced they are following new recommendations from a team of cold case experts in the 1996 murder of JonBenét Ramsay Fresh hopes have been raised that the notorious cold case of murdered child pageant queen JonBenét Ramsey may be solved after Colorado police said they are reviewing new 'recommendations' in the 1996 case. JonBenet would have been 33 years old today The crime scene at the Ramsey's upscale Colorado home following the killing of their six-year-old John and Patsy Ramsey appeal for information resulting in the arrest of JonBenét's killer on May 1, 1997 Police said in a statement that DNA continues to be an investigative focal point as the science behind the testing of samples taken at the time continues to develop. New DNA testing which could unlock the mystery of the brutal 1996 murder of Colorado child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey has finally been completed A undated photo of John and Patricia 'Patsy' Ramsey with their children JonBenet and Burke Burke Ramsey, now 36, was only nine-years-old when his sister was brutally murdered John Mark Karr was extradited from Thailand and arrested for the murder of JonBenét Ramsey after he confessed, however police could not link him to the scene and his confession was largely discredited The coroner determined that the pageant girl's cause of death was 'asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma,' meaning she had been choked and beaten. JonBenet's brother sued CBS for $750 million over a documentary it broadcast which pointed the finger at him for his sister's death John Ramsey, 80, said it took him years before his family could celebrate Christmas again after his daughter was found strangled and beaten to death the basement of the family's Boulder, Colorado home the day after Christmas, December 26, 1996 John Ramsey in a recent interview with Fox.