John Ramsey has stated he doesn’t fear about those that imagine he murdered his daughter JonBenét Ramsey, saying that when a repute is tarnished, “it by no means goes again to pure white.”
Chatting with Folks forward of the brand new Netflix docuseries Chilly Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey, which premieres as we speak, Monday, November 25, John defined why he doesn’t let the accusations trouble him.
“As soon as your repute is tarnished, rightly or wrongly, it by no means goes again to pure white,” he informed the outlet. “That’s simply life. And it doesn’t trouble me. I imply, we have been so overwhelmed by type individuals and caring individuals, and that 5% or 10% is irrelevant, and I’m not apprehensive about it.”
Netflix’s three-part docuseries tells the story of JonBenét, who was brutally murdered within the Ramseys’ dwelling 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 got here underneath suspicion, although neither of them have been ever charged. In 1998, a District Lawyer stated there was inadequate proof to carry fees towards the couple. Then, 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.
Virtually 30 years later, the case stays unsolved. In his interview with Folks, John defined how he believes an intruder was accountable and has urged the Boulder, Colorado, police to present the go-ahead for brand new DNA testing.
“To me, it may simply have been the identical particular person,” John stated, referring to a masked intruder who had reportedly damaged right into a home simply two miles from the place the Ramseys lived and sexually assaulted a 12-year-old woman in the midst of the evening.
“I believe the tactic of operation was precisely the identical,” he defined. “I imagine the killer was in the home after we got here dwelling, waited til we went to sleep. [The parents of the 12-year-old] got here dwelling, set the burglar alarm, and the killer was already in the home. A really comparable methodology, and but the police blew it off. It was the identical investigator as our case.”
Chilly Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey, Premiere, Monday, November 25, Netflix
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