Who were the suspects in the JonBenét Ramsey cold case?
The identity of the person who killed Jennifer T. Ramsey on Christmas Day 1996 has been a mystery for many years.
But following the November 25, 2024, release of the Netflix documentary Cold Case: Who Killed JonBen T. Ramsey, which completely altered the case’s lengthy list of suspects, her father got a letter.
JonBen t s tragic murder
Along with her brother Burke, mother Patricia, also known as Patsy, and father John Bennet Ramsey, JonBen T. Ramsey resided in Boulder County, Colorado.
Following in the footsteps of her mother, who won a beauty pageant, she participated in multiple child beauty pageants.
JonBen T was murdered at her house and concealed in the basement on the evening of December 25, 1996.
The six-year-old’s body was found behind a basement door after a search for her was initiated after she was reported missing on December 26.
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This led to two lines of inquiry in the investigation into JonBen’s death.
One investigated whether a family member killed her, while the other proposed that an intruder, who may have entered through the basement door or the property’s two open windows, killed her.
Shocking confession
On November 25, 2024, a documentary named Cold Case: Who Killed JonBen Ramsey was released on Netflix.
John Bennett got a startling letter in the mail as a result of the series, which reignited interest in the case.
To the Daily Mail, he disclosed: In light of all this publicity, JonBen’s father told the Daily Mail: “Based on all this publicity, I recently received a letter from a lady saying, ‘My ex-husband is the killer, and I’ve kept this inside for as long as I can. Please, please call me.'”
“We tried calling her, but she didn’t pick up, so I’m not sure.
“We ve shared at this point with a private investigator.”
John Bennett thinks this will provide peace to his family, even though it hasn’t resulted in an arrest yet.
JonBen t s family
Although John, Patsy, and Burke were never identified as suspects in Jon Ben’s murder, the family was the subject of many police investigations into the six-year-old’s passing.
It was Patsy who found a two-and-a-half-page ransom note on the kitchen stairway and reported her daughter missing.
The note, which was written with a pen and some of the Ramseys’ paper, requested money equal to John’s yearly Christmas bonus.
The authorities thought the family might have been involved because the note was so abnormally long and contained such particular data.
According to JonBen’s autopsy, the six-year-old had what was thought to be pineapple in her stomach, and a dish of pineapple in the kitchen bore her elder brother Burke’s fingerprints.
However, there was no physical evidence to refute his parents’ allegation that he had spent the entire night asleep in his bed.
Burke filed a lawsuit against CB.In 2019, the issue was settled and concluded amicably to the satisfaction of all parties, despite Safter appearing to be the murderer in one of their documentaries.
Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy publicly vindicated John and Patsy, and Burke was exonerated of any wrongdoing.
Gary Howard Oliva
Gary Howard Oliva, a convicted pedophile, was publicly identified as a suspect in 2002 but never faced charges.
On the night of JonBen’s death, he was discovered to have called a school acquaintance and admitted to hurting a little girl.
Additionally, it was discovered that he had been close to the Ramsey residence when JonBen T. died.
He had multiple photos of JonBenet when he was arrested in 2016 on two counts of attempted child sex exploitation and one count of child sex exploitation.
Some of these images were taken during her autopsy.
Oliva’s handwriting was remarkably similar to the text on the ransom note discovered in the Ramsey residence, but his DNA did not match traces on JonBen’s body.
John Mark Karr
John Mark Karr admitted to killing and sexually assaulting JonBen while he was a teacher in Bangkok on August 15, 2006.
However, his confession quickly fell apart as he was unable to give any details beyond the ones which had been reported in the press.
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Also, JonBen t s autopsy had not indicated the presence of any drugs in her body and there was no evidence to suggest the teacher was even in Boulder County at the time of her death.
Karr sDNA did not match the tracesfound on JonBen t s body either.
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