JonBenet Ramsey's father reveals stunning breakthrough in hunt for man who tortured, sexually assaulted and killed the six-year-old beauty queen in 1996 - as he opens up on the pain of being blamed fo

John Ramsey received a letter recently from a woman naming her ex-husband as his daughter JonBenet’s killer. Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét's body was found at her home in Boulder, Colorado on December 26, 1996 The child pageant star with her father John Ramsey, her mother Patsy and her older brother Burke The home where six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was killed in Boulder, Colorado, pictured in 1996 ‘You know, the police were doing nothing and had done nothing for 28 years, quite frankly, other than trying to explain away the evidence so they could prosecute Patsy or me,’ he says. John and Patsy Ramsey, the parents of JonBenét Ramsey, meet with a small selected group of the local Colorado media after four months of silence in Boulder, Colorado in May 1997 The couple were suspected of being involved in the murder of their daughter, but were later cleared due to DNA evidence Local police at one point believed her brother Burke was somehow responsible, following some sibling dispute, and that the parents worked together to stage it as a murder scene ‘We’re asking him, begging him really, to use the latest technology to do more testing on the unidentified male DNA and get it in a format that can be used in the public genealogy database.’ This technique, John says, has been successful in solving many cold cases. JonBenet's father John, said he received the letter after the Netflix documentary aired The mystery of JonBenet's death continues to haunt the town where she died John Mark Karr, 41, who falsely confessed to the murder of JonBenet seen departing the Immigration jail as he is deported from the Immigration Detention Centre in Bangkok in 2006 Earlier this year, the Netflix documentary stirred up interest in the long dormant case and introduced the haunting murder to a new generation of people, including armchair sleuths, who weren’t even born when JonBenet was killed. It needs to be cleared up for my children and grandchildren’s sake.’ Child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey is seen in 1996, the year she died The grave of JonBenet Ramsey in Marietta, Georgia, pictured ‘If we got this guy arrested, convicted and in prison, there’ll still be five or ten per cent of people who think we’re guilty.