roadblocks. close the airport. you know, what are we doing here? and you assume the police know what they re doing. the sergeant quickly arrived and read the ransom note. speaking to anyone about your situation will result in your daughter being beheaded. i had been a police officer almost 22 years when this happened. i was totally unaware of any other cases like this where you had a child that was taken for a ransom. i called the fbi. they were one of the first phone calls i made. denver fbi agent ron walker took the call and was soon faxed a photo of jonbenet. i was kind of flabbergasted. my initial impression was this was a much older girl, 13, 14, maybe even 15 years old. beautifully coifed hair, a lot of makeup. coming up. red flags. this was a bogus note.
the family of the child beauty queen jonbenet ramsey new touch dna evidence was found by guessing where jonbenet s killer handled her pajama bottoms. forensic scientist angela williamson led the work. whoever committed this offense pulled down her long johns then pulled them back up because she was found dressed. technicians tested on both sides of the long johns waistband. it s the same dna. it s the same male that s in the underpants that s on the side of the long johns. tests a decade apart revealed the same unknown male on two pieces of jonbenet s clothing. this led to one of the most controversial moments in this sensational case. a letter of apology to the ramseys from the boulder d.a. to come out and say we definitely conclude that these folks can be exonerated is an inaccurate portrayal of the evidence.
note. the ramseys had submitted multiple handwriting samples. john s definitively was cleared yours was not? mine scored 4.5 out of 5. 5 is no match. there are investigators who say patsy ramsey could not be excluded as an author. it s very subjective. three months after jonbenet s murder, police were no closer to an arrest. the d.a. made a bold move, hiring veteran homicide detective lou schmidt. perhaps at first i leaned towards the parents doing it, but as i got into the case i started seeing red flags which started pointing the other way. the case took on a whole new turn. schmidt found evidence at the crime scene he thought directly pointed away from the ramseys and to an intruder. first an open and broken window in the basement. police had dismissed it when they first searched the house, claiming the window was too
really? well, that s absurd. that s just absurd. there are those who speculate that someone else was burke. jonbenet s big brother. he sat down for his very first interview ever with dr. phil. what do you need to start looking for the person who actually did it? you know, it s been, burke didn t act right, he was smiling when he was talking. come on. burke is a wonderful young man. i m very proud of him. ramsey says accusations like this motivate him to keep trying to solve the case. because patsy s been accused of being a murderer, because now burke has been accused, the only way that s really going to be resolved is to find the killer. today, john ramsey works out west in the aviation world. he remarried and enjoys a quiet, anonymous life off the beaten path. his little girl is never too far
jonbenet s pediatrician refuted the theory of ongoing molestation. absolutely, categorically, no, i do not think she was sexually abused. the blood in the underpants was critical in another way. it did identify a dna profile. forensic testing identified an unknown male. the ramseys were not a match. yet detectives zeroed in on patsy ramsey. their speculation, she accidentally killed jonbenet and john helped cover it up, but what kind of accident would cause patsy to murder jonbenet? investigators had a theory. she had a bedwetting problem. a serious bedwetting problem that was ongoing for years. some believed frustration with jonbenet s bedwetting that night caused patsy to snap.