John Ramsey is doubling down on the speculation that his daughter JonBenét Ramsey‘s homicide might be linked to the identical particular person chargeable for a 1997 assault on a woman who attended the identical dance studio as JonBenét.
Chatting with Fox Information Digital, John pointed to a masked intruder who snuck into a house in Boulder, Colorado, 9 months after JonBenét’s homicide and tried to rape a 12-year-old lady. John claims the police “blew it off” on the time, saying the 2 circumstances weren’t linked.
“Properly, I feel there’s a really sturdy indication that there presumably is a connection,” John advised the outlet. “The police blew it off to start with and, to my data, by no means checked out that as an possibility. The police chief at the moment mentioned, ‘Properly, it’s not the identical as a result of that little lady within the second incident was not murdered.’ That’s absurd to say one thing like that.”
The renewed curiosity within the JonBenét case comes after the latest Netflix docuseries Chilly Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey. The three-part sequence tells the story of JonBenét, who was brutally murdered within the Ramseys’ house in December 1996. She was discovered within the basement with a fracture to her cranium and indicators of being strangled. She additionally confirmed indicators of being sexually assaulted.
On the time, John and his spouse Patsy Ramsey had been handled as suspects, although neither had been ever charged. In 2008, then-District Lawyer Mary Lacy publicly apologized to the household, noting that proof had cleared John and Patsy and JonBenét’s brother Burke (who was 9 on the time of the homicide). Patsy died in 2006 from ovarian most cancers.
Again in 2004, CBS’ 48 Hours reported on the JonBenét case and referenced the 1997 assault on JonBenét’s dance studio classmate. The report said that on September 14, 1997, an unknown suspect broke into the lady’s house (simply two miles from the Ramsey’s house) and attacked her. The sufferer’s mom heard whispering and confronted the attacker, who fled the scene.
“My feeling is he bought into the home whereas they had been out and hid inside the home, so he would have been in there for maybe 4 to 6 hours, hiding,” the sufferer’s father advised 48 Hours. “The very first thing that occurred to us was that it was the parallel to the Ramsey case as a result of it was precisely the identical state of affairs.”
“There’s a risk it was the identical particular person [who killed JonBenét],” John advised Fox Information Digital, including, “the strategy of operation for this particular person was the identical.”
“I consider he was in our house once we bought house from going out to associates for dinner with the youngsters,” Ramsey mentioned of the one who murdered his daughter. “We went to mattress, and he waited until we had been asleep and attacked JonBenét.”
He continued, “Within the second case, the dad and mom had gone out. They got here house, and so they set the burglar alarm on. And the mom heard a noise, ultimately, and went into the kid’s bed room, and there was an individual standing over her mattress. So the particular person was in the home after they got here house as a result of they set the burglar alarm. He couldn’t have gotten in in any other case.”
Former Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner dismissed the connection again in 2000, stating, “Whereas the 2 circumstances have some similarities, detectives discovered no definitive connection on the time.”
Boulder Police now has a brand new chief, Stephen Redfearn, who not too long ago agreed to satisfy with John to debate the case. John hopes Redfearn will use his powers to recruit the FBI to assist with the unsolved case, together with giving the go-ahead for brand spanking new DNA testing.
Chilly Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey, Streaming, Netflix