Twenty-eight years have passed since 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered and her father is still looking for answers.
John Ramsey still questions the Boulder Police Department about his daughter’s murder and said he is not letting up.
JonBenet was beaten and strangled to death with a garrote in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. She was found the day after Christmas in 1996, per Fox News.
Originally, Ramsey and his wife, Patsy, were suspects in their daughter’s murder, but were eventually ruled out.
“We heard, reliably, that one of the members of the police department — I don’t know who — told a journalist, ‘We’re just waiting for John Ramsey to die,'” Ramsey, 80, said in an interview at CrimeCon, a true-crime convention, hosted in Nashville
“And the implication is: then pressure will be off, and all this will go away,” Ramsey said. “It’s just disgusting, but it’s not out of character at all.”
Paula Woodward, an investigative journalist who has been covering JonBenet’s murder since the 1990s, corroborated Ramsey’s claim.
But the Boulder Police Department steadfastly said it continues to investigate the case.
“Not only have we communicated with the Ramsey family that we have never stopped working to solve this horrible crime and bring justice to JonBenet, but I also regularly communicate with John to give updates or progress reports and answer questions he has and this has never come up,” Interim Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn said to Fox News Digital.
And Ramsey will be there when a break in the case is made.
“I’m not going to die. Well, I’m going to be around for good while,” Ramsey said.
And when he does die, his son, John Andrew Ramsey, will “take over.”
“He’s very passionate about getting this resolved, and, I’m grateful for that,” John Ramsey said.
Since so much time has passed, Ramsey is fearful that the BPD could have lost some evidence — evidence that could have been tested for DNA.
“As far as we know, these items have never been tested,” Ramsey said. “They were taken from the crime scene as possible evidence. We want them tested, and we want them tested by an outside lab for DNA sampling. To my knowledge, that’s never happened.”
