A never-before-aired interview with JonBenet Ramsey’s parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, and the late Barbara Walters has surfaced following the release of a new documentary about the Murder of 6-year-old pageant star in 1996.
JonBenet was found dead in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado the day after Christmas, 28 years ago, and the case remains unsolved to this day, despite continued public interest and a recent attempt by John Ramsey to retest crime scene evidence for DNA using new technology.
“The ransom note has a strange amount: $118,000. That was a bonus you received,” Walters, then host of ABC’s “20/20,” said says in the interviewwhich was staged in 2000 but never aired, according to ABC.
“Well, that was one of the theories I came up with, which was that it was close to the net amount I had received as a bonus that year,” John Ramsey told Walters. “One-eighteen means something to the killer. We know that. We believe that. “Whether it’s related to my bonus or something only the killer knows, we don’t know.”
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John and Patsy Ramsey, the parents of JonBenet Ramsey, meet with a small select group of local Colorado media on May 1, 1997 after four months of silence in Boulder, Colorado. Patsy holds up a reward sign for information leading to the arrest. of their daughter’s killer. Their six-year-old daughter was found dead on Christmas night in 1996. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
When Walters asked Patsy Ramsey, who died six years after the interview in 2006, if she knew the amount of her husband’s bonus, she replied, “Not then, no.”
The interview resurfaced after the November premiere of the Netflix documentary “Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey.”
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Patsy Ramsey is pictured with her daughter JonBenet, whose murder remains unsolved. (Courtesy of Netflix)
John Ramsey, 80, most recently told Fox News Digital in September that he was optimistic about new leadership at the Boulder Police Department (BPD), which officially named a new police chief on September 6.
Chief Stephen Redfearn, who served as interim chief for HPD is the fifth BPD police chief to take on the JonBenet Ramsey case since 1996.
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JonBenet Ramsey would have turned 34 on Saturday, August 6, 2024. (Ramsey family)
Ramsey told Fox News Digital that he would like BPD to turn over evidence in his daughter’s nearly 30-year-old daughter’s home. murder case to the FBI“at a minimum” so that federal officials can test and retest evidence for possible external DNA, including external male DNA that federal officials made public in 1997.
“We have an unidentified male DNA result from the tests they did in 1997, which were primitive by today’s standards,” Ramsey explained. ‘But we have an unidentified DNA sample from a man who was reported to the police in January 1997. They kept that a secret because it conflicted with their conclusion that we were guilty. How do we explain that away? What they were desperately trying to do. “
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In this January 3, 1997 file photo, a police officer sits in her cruiser outside the home where 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered in Boulder, Colorado. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, file)
Evidence that never was tested for traces of DNA includes the garrote found around JonBenet’s neck, a ransom note found in Ramsey’s home the morning of the murder, a suitcase found in the basement that authorities believe the killer escaped from a window, an unknown flashlight found in the kitchen of the Ramsey family by the morning of the murder and the unknown rope found in her brother Burke Ramsey’s room that day, according to public records initially obtained by journalist Paula Woodward, as Fox News Digital previously reported.
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In 1999, a grand jury indicted both John and his wife, Patsy Ramsey, for child abuse resulting in JonBenet’s deathbut Alex Hunter, the district attorney at the time, declined to sign the indictment, citing a lack of evidence that would justify criminal charges against the parents. Prosecutors eventually dropped their case against John and Patsy in 2006.
BPD said in a September statement that “Chief Redfearn has continued to have conversations with the Ramsey family, and there are no plans for that to change.”
