John Ramsey received a letter recently from a woman naming her ex-husband as his daughter JonBenet’s killer. ‘I’ve kept this inside for as long as I can - please, please call me,’ she wrote and left her number. Of course John called immediately ... but it simply rang out.
![[The child pageant star with her father John Ramsey, her mother Patsy and her older brother Burke]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/20/23/93372111-14215795-image-a-17_1734738910429.jpg)
Yet, as he tells the Mail, he didn’t view the incident negatively, nor feel any anger for the person - most probably a crank - who sent the letter. Quite the opposite in fact. The reason for this is because, for nearly three decades, the sadistic, brutal murder of his little girl, six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, on Boxing Day 1996, was brushed aside by police as the finger of suspicion continued to point squarely at her immediate family: at John, now 81, his wife Patsy, who died of cancer in 2006, and even their son, Burke, who was just nine at the time.
![[The home where six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was killed in Boulder, Colorado, pictured in 1996]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/20/23/93372113-14215795-image-a-18_1734738916636.jpg)
This was despite them being publicly exonerated, and apologised to, by police in 2008 when an old DNA sample from the crime scene identified the presence of an ‘unknown male’. Yet still the cloud of suspicion lingered, and the police investigation stalled.
![[In the aftermath of her death, an ensuing media frenzy emerged with photograph after photograph of JonBenet on-stage wearing make-up, dancing and singing in costumes]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/20/23/93372117-14215795-image-m-20_1734738931431.jpg)
Now, however, following a hugely popular Netflix series re-examining the case, people are starting to take notice again: to ask questions, to stop assuming, even point new suspicious fingers themselves. And that, John says, can only bring them closer to finally getting justice for JonBenet.
![[JonBenet Ramsey pictured with her mother Patsy Ramsey and her brother Burke]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/20/23/93372109-14215795-image-a-22_1734738994141.jpg)
