Director of JonBenét Ramsey Netflix doc changes his mind on the crime

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery JonBenét Ramsey was just six years old when she was found murdered in the basement of her parents’ home in Boulder, Colorado “Back then I fell for it,” Berlinger, 63, tells The Independent. “And so I will be honest and say one of my goals of this show is to pressure Boulder police to finally do the right thing … the Ramsey family has been pounding the table for several years for additional DNA testing.” open image in gallery JonBenet’s mother called 911 on the day after Christmas in 1996, telling the operator she’d found a ransom note; the child’s body was only found hours later in the basement by her father He’s talking about the surviving Ramsey family; JonBenét’s mother, Patsy, died in 2006 at age 49. open image in gallery JonBenét Ramsey is buried Georgia, where her parents met and where she was born; her mother, Patsy Ramsey, was buried next to her upon her death in 2006 at the age of 49 Berlinger says part of his motivation for making the docuseries was his “desire always to shine a light on things that I think are wrong and need to be corrected.” “I’m blessed that I can say that … my work has been the catalyst for six people being released from prison,” he says. The new Netflix series includes footage from one mock trial held of the Ramseys on a daytime chat show which included input from an “expert” who made an explicit interpretation of JonBenét’s performance with a saxophone that Berlinger calls “obscene.” In another mind-boggling reality, the Ramseys went head-to-head on CNN with a former Boulder detective who’d written a book accusing Patsy of the killing The exploration particularly of the media’s role was another motivating factor behind the JonBenét docuseries, Berlinger tells The Independent.