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A never-before-aired interview with JonBenet Ramsey’s parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, and the late Barbara Walters has resurfaced following the release of a new documentary about the 6-year-old pageant star’s 1996 murder.
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 recent pressure by John Ramsey to reanalyze the crime scene evidence. for DNA using new technology.
“The ransom note has a strange number: $118,000. That was a bonus you had received,” said Walters, then host of ABC’s “20/20.” he says in the interviewwhich was made in 2000 but never aired, according to ABC.
“Well, that was one of the theories I came up with, that it was close to the net amount he had received that year as a bonus,” John Ramsey told Walters. “One-eighteen means something to the killer. We know it. We believe it. 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 after four months of silence in Boulder, Colorado, on May 1, 1997. Patsy holds a reward for information sign that lead to arrest. of his daughter’s murderer. His six-year-old daughter was found dead on Christmas night 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 at that time, no.”
The interview resurfaced after the November release 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, recently told Fox News Digital in September that he was feeling optimistic about the 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 HPD chief As of January, he is the fifth BPD police chief to take charge of 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 the case of his almost 30-year-old daughter. FBI murder case“at a minimum,” so federal officials can test and retest evidence of possible foreign DNA, including foreign male DNA that federal officials disclosed in 1997.
“We have an unidentified male DNA result from testing they did in 1997, which… by today’s standards, was primitive,” Ramsey explained. “But we have an unidentified male DNA sample, which was reported to the police in January 1997. They kept it secret because it conflicted with their conclusion that we were guilty. How can we explain that? Which they desperately tried to do. “
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In this Jan. 3, 1997, file photo, a police officer sits in her patrol car outside the home where 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered in Boulder, Colorado. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
Evidence that has never been tested for traces of DNA includes the club 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 used to escape through a window, an unknown flashlight found in the Ramsey family kitchen counter the morning of the murder and an unknown rope found in his brother Burke Ramsey’s bedroom that day, according to public records initially obtained by journalist Paula Woodward, as previously reported by Fox News Digital.
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In 1999, a grand jury indicted John and his wife, Patsy Ramsey, for Child abuse that led to JonBenet’s deathbut Alex Hunter, the district attorney at the time, refused to sign the indictment, citing a lack of evidence to justify criminal charges against the parents. Prosecutors finally dropped the 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 to change that.”
