The murder of JonBenet Ramsey resulted in the publication of several books such as ‘Death of a Little Princess: the tragic story of the killing of JonBenet Ramsey’ by Carol Smith in 1997. Later on December 28, 2016, Ramsey’s and Bruce’s lawyers filed a lawsuit against CBS. Werner Spitz accused Burke of the killing during a CBS interview and a documentary program ‘The Case of JonBenet Ramsey’ resulting in a defamation suit against Spitz on October 2016. On October 2016, forensic pathologist Dr. In November 2006, John Ramsey’s friend filed a lawsuit against an anonymous web surfer for two messages containing the pseudonym ‘Undertherader’ which indicated Westmoreland in the murder. Another defamation suit followed in 2001, against authors of ‘JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation,' and later on another suit against John and Patsy Ramsey for the publication if their book, ‘The Death of Innocence.’
In 1999, the family’s libel attorney made a trial against several people and companies who reported the case. The investigation continues to be an active homicide case. New Forensic analysis conducted in October 2016 proved that original DNA found was from two individuals other than JonBenet Ramsey. Although they used latest DNA technology in their research, they ended up with no new information. The Boulder Police Department took over the case from the District Attorney in February 2009 and reopened the investigation. In 2002, the District’s attorney successor, Mary Lacy, took over the case pursuing alternative theories of a non-family member committing the killing.īy 2003, the investigation found a trace DNA of an unknown male on the victim's clothes resulting in an apology to Ramsey’s parents and clearance from the case in 2008. Lack of sufficient evidence led to dropping of the charges against them.Īlthough the parents agreed to television interviews on several occasions, they resisted police questioning.
In 1999, the parents received new charges for permitting the child to be in a threatening situation and for obstructing the prosecution of a person suspected to have committed the murder.
After three weeks of analysis of the letter, new charges were opened to Patsy, the child’s mother, as the letter contained different variations of the letter ‘A.’However, in 1998, the District Attorney stated that DNA analysis revealed that none of the immediate family was guilty of the crime because all the 437 items of evidence presented pointed away from them.
However, based on his analysis, English was the writer's first language.The police suspected her parents of the murder because the ransom note found at the crime scene was unusually long and contained un-usual exclamation marks and acronyms. That means that whoever wrote the note would have spent at least 21 minutes on it, even without the time it took to decide what to write, or to put the pen and paper back where they found it.įorensic linguistics expert James Fitzgerald also believed that the note used "maternal" language, and that mistakes, like misspellings, were deliberately included to make it seem as if the writer wasn't a native English speaker. Each expert timed how long it took them to write the letter out-dotted I's included-and everyone took at least 21 minutes. The Ransom Note: One of the strangest parts of the Ramsey case has always been the ransom note, which not only made no sense given the fact that JonBenét's body was found in the house a few hours later, but was abnormally long and asked for almost the same exact amount as the bonus that John had been given that year.ĭuring tonight's special, the experts explained that multiple lines from the note were taken from movies like Dirty Harry and Speed, and they conducted a very interesting test.