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 daughterâs Murder and said he is not letting up.
JonBenet was beaten and strangled to death with a garrote in the basement of her familyâs 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 daughterâs Murder, but were eventually ruled out.
âWe heard, reliably, that one of the members of the police department â I donât know who â told a journalist, âWeâre just waiting for John Ramsey to die,'â Ramsey, 80, said in an interview at CrimeCon, a true-crime convention, hosted in Nashville
âAnd the implication is: then pressure will be off, and all this will go away,â Ramsey said. âItâs just disgusting, but itâs not out of character at all.â
Paula Woodward, an investigative journalist who has been covering JonBenetâs Murder since the 1990s, corroborated Ramseyâs claim.
But the Boulder Police Department steadfastly said it continues to investigate the case.
âNot 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,â Interim Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn said to Fox News Digital.
And Ramsey will be there when a break in the case is made.
âIâm not going to die. Well, Iâm going to be around for good while,â Ramsey said.
And when he does die, his son, John Andrew Ramsey, will âtake over.â
âHeâs very passionate about getting this resolved, and, Iâm grateful for that,â John Ramsey said.
Since so much time has passed, Ramsey is fearful that the BPD could have lost some evidence â evidence that could have been tested for DNA.
âAs far as we know, these items have never been tested,â Ramsey said. âThey 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, thatâs never happened.â
