JonBenet Ramsey death: Dad claims cops hid DNA evidence as they wanted him and his wife to appear guilty
BOULDER, COLORADO: JonBenet Ramsey's father has claimed that cops purposely withheld vital DNA evidence and leaked misleading information to "implicate late beauty queen’s parents." John Ramsey, 79, stated that Boulder PD investigators were convinced that either he or his wife Patsy had killed their daughter since the morning she was found dead inside their basement on December 26, 1997.
New details about JonBenet Ramsey's infamous 1996 murder case reveal that the cops recovered DNA evidence from beneath the slain six-year-olds fingernails and from a spot of blood found on her clothing. It reportedly did not match any members of the Ramsey family nor any other suspect associated with the case rather it was believed to belong to a Caucasian male. However, the investigators did not disclose this vital information for several weeks. This led to JonBenet's father John and mother Patsy coming under intense scrutiny and speculation in the court of public opinion. Moreover, the investigators publicly announced that the couple was being treated "under an umbrella of suspicion" despite securing their hand with the crucial evidence.
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Ramseys were officially cleared of the crime after more than a decade, following an investigation by the District Attorney's office in 2008. This comes after the DNA proof came to light. An apology letter was sent to the Ramseys post the revelation. However, JonBenet's mother Patsy had already died of ovarian cancer two years before in 2006. Twenty-six years on, John who had his reputation permanently tainted, believes he and his wife could have been cleared years earlier.
While talking to The Sun, John expressed his strong opinions against the Boulder PD. The 79-year-old father accused the investigators of intentionally withholding the information about the unidentified DNA as well as allegedly leaking misleading information to the press as they wanted him and his wife to be guilty. John said that the Boulder cops were too fixated on pointing their fingers at the parents that they neglected the obvious evidence.
'Forget about the unidentified male DNA'
"The District Attorney told me their [Boulder PD's] whole strategy for solving the case was proposed to them by a psychologist or the FBI - I'm not sure which, but I heard both," said John during a 2022 December interview. He further added, "And they were told to just bring this intense pressure, 'we know it was the parents, we just don't know which one because they were both at the house.' They were told: 'Forget about the unidentified male DNA, that's not important in this case,' and then they used the media to increase that pressure on us."
Talking about the misleading information, John said, "They released a lot of misleading information at best [to the press] and withheld the DNA thing, they didn't tell the DA's office about that for months. So, the media piled on ... 'How disturbed must a father be to do that? He must be a real, real evil guy' - and that was the police's strategy. They thought one of us would confess and say, 'well, it was Patsy, she did it, enough of this craziness' or vice versa. That was the strategy. Their whole case against us was 'we didn't act right' that morning."