The heartbroken father of a six-year-old girl murdered nearly 30 years ago received a bombshell letter after a Netflix documentary about the tragedy aired last month. John Ramsey was stunned to read the note from a woman claiming her ex-husband is his daughter JonBenét's killer. However, despite immediately following up on the tip, he is yet to hear back from the mystery sender and still remains in the dark nearly 30 years after the killing.
JonBenét was just six when she was discovered strangled at the family home in Boulder, Colorado on Boxing Day 1996. He and his wife Patsy, who has since died, were prime suspects for 11 years and now John is desperate for the killer - or killers - to be caught and punished so he can attempt to find closure.
Although he has tried calling the woman who sent the letter, after the Netflix show was released recently, no one answered the number. John, now 81, said: "Based on all this publicity, recently I got a letter from a lady saying, 'My ex-husband’s the killer, and I’ve kept this inside for as long as I can – please, please call me. We reached out to her, but she didn’t answer the phone, so I don’t know. We’ve shared at this point with a private investigator.".
JonBenét was in child beauty pageants across the US, following the footsteps of her mother. The documentary, Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey, showed how she was beaten and sexually assaulted in 1996, and how police - and armchair detectives - pointed the finger at her parents.
