Prosecutor says he knows who killed JonBenet Ramsey
The prosecutor who took on the JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation, after detectives made a string of errors, claims to know who killed the child beauty queen two decades ago.
Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett last week announced DNA evidence would be retested in the investigation of the unsolved 1996 slaying.
He told news.com.au the investigation was plagued with errors from the beginning and DNA testing contributed to the problems.
“If we can ever file a case in open court, I’ll tell the world,” Mr Garnett said. However, in the interview he refused to reveal who he thought was responsible.
He added that cracking the case depended on “what the evidence turns into”.
The DNA would be tested with new techniques but in order to put anyone behind bars Mr Garnett needed “several different pieces of evidence to come together”.
JonBenet’s bludgeoned and strangled body was found by her father in the basement of their home in Boulder, Colorado on Boxing Day, 1996.
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While Mr Garnett said he would love to solve the mystery, he said the cold case was "frustrating”.
“Everybody involved in the case at certain points made mistakes... A lot of these we can’t do anything about. It doesn’t do much good to dwell on it."
A new US documentary Overkill: The Unsolved Murder of JonBenet revealed local police bungled the investigation by not separating the murdered girl’s parents John and Patsy into two different interview locations to question them individually.
It was also revealed police did not search the home after Mrs Ramsey reported her daughter missing.
Her husband allegedly discovered the body eight hours after the alarm was raised, and he was allowed to carry JonBenet up the stairs from the basement, contaminating the evidence.
As the 20th anniversary of the murder mystery approaches, a handwriting expert has claimed the ransom note found at the Ramsey home was likely written by JonBenet’s mother.
Mrs Ramsey, who died in 2006, strongly denied having any involvement in her daughter’s death.
More clues could be uncovered once the Colorado Bureau of Investigation completed a new round of DNA testing.
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