JonBenét Ramsey mystery: New evidence that could lead to her killer | 60 Minutes Australia

911 oh my god that was a great story about a lot of chaos, the murder of John Benet Ramsey, they decided the first day I killed my daughter three decades later, you can't understand someone being so evil, it's still not solved. Law enforcement never opened that door, but now detectives are doing what they should have done in the first place. I had no doubt that a stun gun was used. He was about to claim that he might be following the

evidence

. It doesn't have to be. Sherlock Holmes this is what we call a clip find the murderer take that burden off my father yes it has been a long time coming there is a simple rule that every police detective learns at the beginning of his career follow the

evidence

it is a principle although that seems to have It was forgotten when child beauty queen John Beray Ramsey was found strangled in the basement of her family home.

Her murder 27 years ago remains unsolved. A major reason for this is that the local police investigating the crime were convinced that John Benet's parents were the other suspects. along with crucial evidence were ignored, but now there has been a breakthrough and finally a real opportunity to solve this

mystery

. It's below freezing in Denver, Colorado, but 80-year-old John Ramsey has a spring in his step for the first time in 27 years. hope that his daughter's

killer

can finally be brought to justice with a new investigation. The gruesome murder of six-year-old beauty queen John Benay Ramsey is one of the world's most notorious unsolved crimes, but the terrible truth is that John would know if the local police hadn't done it.

He didn't screw up the case, the

killer

could

have been found a long time ago if the police had really been investigating with experienced people. This was not a difficult case to solve. It shouldn't have been a difficult case to solve. And that's what should have happened. They didn't do it because they didn't have people with much experience here we are John, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation yes, it's been a long time coming John Ramsey is finally getting what he always wanted a team of experts from cold case investigators with a proper look at all the evidence, which Boulder police never did, they only had eyes on the ramsy family, you know, they made a decision on the first day and the conclusion was that I killed my daughter, Are you more hopeful now this year? than you have in a long time, you know this is something we've been trying to accomplish since almost day one, getting outside help after almost three decades of inaction, cold case review is the biggest turning point In the

mystery

of what happened to Jan Ramsey tonight we reveal what the team is examining the astonishing list of evidence that was overlooked or blatantly overlooked the secret DNA report that cleared the family 2 weeks after the murder, what we know is that none of that DNA matched anyone in the family, the forensic expert whom the police ignored was as sure as he

could

be, and the sexual assault of another young woman just a few months later, you have to ask rightly: This could be the same person he was On Boxing Day morning 1996 in the small but prosperous town of Boulder Colorado, located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, John and Paty Ramsey wake up to discover that John Benet had disappeared.

The first thing they found was a ransom note. What is happening there? Man, we're kidnapping. There is a ransom note here. It's a rescue. Note, please, what is your name? I am the mother. Oh my god please the police came and searched the house and found no trace of the girl but then in a second Hunter around John Ramsey discovered his daughter behind a basement door that no one had bothered to . To open it, she had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death. I quickly removed the tape from her mouth and her hands were tied, uh, and I couldn't untie the knot from her.

He was very tied up. She had been strangled with a Gro, she was so. deeply embedded in his skin that I saw it, it's very difficult to imagine a more gruesome and gruesome scene, you just can't comprehend how someone could be so evil, but in Boulder the police were more used to writing up traffic findings than solving murders and that lack The experience would underline the investigation from day one, the police declared the rambling family as main suspects and even today almost everyone thinks they got away with it. There is nothing more dangerous than the police department making a decision because it totally excludes anything that conflicts with that conclusion just days after John Bay murder detective John San Auson received a call from the police from Boulder who needed his expertise, he witnessed the police case unfold from the moment he arrived, what was that?

Boulder was just crazy, I mean, it was just a lot of chaos, I mean, literally, there were news reporters from all over the world who just migrated to Boulder because it was a big story, a six-year-old girl, you know, who was murdered and you know that nobody knows who did it, but the focus was obviously on the family and now that you come back to this, you know that the scenario right now is quite similar to December of '96, there was a moment when this experienced detective knew It was so obvious that someone had broken into the house. a theory that the local cops didn't want to hear about well there was a lot of evidence to support that there was an intruder was that the intruder theory was properly investigated.

I don't even think it was something that ConEd entertained, not what I What I can say with a fair degree of certainty is that there were at least 2,500

lead

s in the first part of the investigation that were literally never followed up on. Because tunnel vision existed from the moment the murder occurred, the focus was on John and Paty. Crime scene photos taken by Boulder police have been analyzed by the cold case review team now investigating the murder. Law enforcement never opened that door for John. These images helped reconstruct the amateur oversights made and the evidence that was completely ignored.

The first signs of an intruder. was in the house and was found in photos of Ramsay's basement yes, you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes, right, to know that this is what we call a clue, right, you have an open window, you have a scuff mark on the wall , you have a The suitcase in the suitcase has broken glass, you can actually see broken glass in the suitcase, so John believes that this photo clearly shows how the Intruder left the house, but the most important thing is that what was there inside the suitcase, Amilia, were fibers that matched what John Banet was carrying. when his father found his body, which means that at some point potentially his body could have been placed inside that suitcase, so what does this tell you?

Is it particularly well planned? No, this murder was extremely disorganized, not just the bouldering team. Ignore all this clear evidence. John would soon learn that they deliberately kept a major scientific breakthrough secret. DNA evidence found on John B's clothing, including his blood-stained underwear and on his nail clippings, ruled out the entire Ramsy family, but he did find some strange DNA that meant they knew for two and a half weeks. after the murder of this girl that John Andrew Ramsey Melinda Ramsey John B Ramsey Patricia Ramsey Burke Ramsey Jeff Ramsey would be excluded as a source of the DNA tested in those tests, so they knew from that. period, they were looking for a strange DNA intruder again, right, this is a piece of the puzzle, but the important thing about this is that this is science that tells you what is under this girl's fingernails and inside her, on her clothes inside, right?

What we know is that none of that DNA matches anyone in the family, but here we are 27 years later and the vast majority of people investigating this case think the family had something to do with it, but this was just the beginning. of an epic police failure that ignored the facts and the experts in its determination to pin the murder on John Benet's family, so it's fair to say then that this could have been or should have been a really critical piece of evidence for La Boulder police officer for more than 20 years as Colorado County Coroner.

Dr. Michael Doerson saw evil in action in the face of death and devastation on a daily basis, but there is one case that he could not close that still haunts him to this day in 1997. Dr. Dois was a local detective me asked me to take a look at a specific and extremely graphic element of the Jean Ramsey murder mystery. When he first saw the marks on Jean Ramsey's skin, what did you think? The first thing I really thought about was the stun gun injuries when she was 6 years old. -Old John Benet Ramsey was found strangled to death in basement B of the family's home in Colorado in 1996.

He had small round marks on his skin. John Benet had two wounds, one on his right cheek and the other on his left back. and they were paired injuries and both injuries, her neck and his back, were the same distance apart and had the same general configuration and what did that tell you? That was one of the things that led me to I think this was really due to a stun gun. How common were stun guns in the 1990s? At the time, it was a fairly new technology and we hadn't really seen much in the way of stun gun injuries, particularly in the field of forensic pathology, but Dr.

Dois knew exactly what he was looking at because 3 years before the murder of John Benet, the forensic pathologist worked on a case where the victim had similar marks on her skin. Puzzled by the distinctive round spots, he conducted the first experiment of its kind in the United States to test what caused them, we had to use anesthetized pigs to induce the type of injury we saw in the murder victim so that the pig would have the size of an ant and then what did you do to test the stun gun on different parts? We did it, the next slide shows the series of experiments we did.

We made several applications of the stun gun to the animal. You can see that some of the marked wounds are very similar to those seen on John Benet Ramsey, so there was no doubt that a stun gun was used in the rampant murder. He was as sure as he could be. Dr. Doerson knew this could be a critical piece of the puzzle for Boulder police, although he might not have led them directly to the killer. I pointed out the nature of the crime. Were you surprised that Boulder police didn't follow up given his experience in this experiment?

I did it because the use of a stun gun really suggests that someone was trying to incapacitate another person and that certainly argued against the idea. that someone in the family had to incapacitate John Benet is at the time of his Murder on the Edge you see these probes and this is essentially a type of pain compliance tool, we use it, we turn it on, it turns on and then upon hitting Yes allows that ability to correct to provide some level of pain To this day, former detective John San Aist is amazed that the local police rejected Dr.

Doon's experience and compelling experiment and thinks about it as a father, does he? How does all this make sense in the sequence of events? The point is that it makes no sense for a parent to use an aggressive weapon to force a six-year-old child to obey. Do you have any children. You wanted your little girl, your little boy, to go somewhere in the middle of the night, you just pick them. Take them up and take them and take them down, yeah, you know, that's what happens with these types of investigations. You talk to a forensic pathologist who says it's a stun gun.

You better listen carefully because that's what they do. They look because they look the way they do. They look at the injuries, they look at the patterns, they look at all these things and when they tell you this is caused by a stun gun, you better listen. Imagining the pain and terror that gun would have inflicted on little John Benet remains incredibly difficult for his family. Consider that John's brother, John Andrew, was 20 when his sister was murdered, all these years and still enraged by Boulder police's refusal to consider Dr. Doon's expert evidence, which may have changed the trajectory of his research.

The solar gun for me would not identify the murderer. True, it would help in his defense, but it would not identify the murderer. We know a stun gun was used. The footage indicates that when she went to bed that night, those marks were not there when, when she was found the next day, those burn marks were not there. If you were there, you know it's clear as day and it's clearly a pretty important tool for assassins. It is a specialized Mo weapon. Yes, very unique. Dr. Michael Doerson used to be part of Colorado's cold case review team, so he knows his landmark report will get his attention.

WhileThey analyze all the evidence in the Johnan Ramsey case, how important is it to bring fresh eyes to a case like this? No, I think it's very important and I think presenting it to someone else always has the advantage of making someone look outside the box. I think this review of the cold case could bring hope for the family. I think so. I think it may be one of the last chances to solve this case, but perhaps the most surprising clue that the police ignored occurred 9 months after the murder of the Beauty Queen girl and another girl.

She was attacked in her bed a few blocks from Ramsy's house. What was your reaction when you read about that? I mean, did you think this needs to be analyzed? There is a connection. This is very similar to our case. Next up is John B. Ramsey, the tragic murder of child beauty queen John Benay Ramsey remains one of the world's most infamous unsolved cases, but 9 months after it occurred and just a few miles away, a very similar crime happened practically unnoticed, another girl in Boulder Colorado was attacked in her bed former detective John San aiston says the similarities were bothering mom and daughter were the only ones at home uh mom leaves she goes to sleep in her room the daughter is in her room and while a daughter is asleep a perpetrator entered the house and sexually assaulted her mother.

She wakes up and then she encounters the individual, he passes by her and jumps from a patio or terrace on the second floor and she was able to escape well when you look at that case and look at some of the things that happened with John Benet. I have to wonder: could this be the same person? This is the house where the attack occurred in the same affluent area of ​​Boulder. It only took me about 5

minutes

to drive here from Ramy's house, which is now right in that direction. There is no connection between these two crimes, so it is a remarkable coincidence.

You don't have to be a law enforcement officer to hear the story of a similar attack so soon after and think, "Oh, that would be worth checking out." They could always be related. so much so that there was no attempt to investigate a link between the cases, compare them as you say, compare the DNA. I don't know, no one was accused of sexual assault and the victim and her family eventually moved out of Boulder John Benet. Father John and his brother John Andrew were stunned when they heard what had happened in the same neighborhood in what became known as the Amy case.

The circumstances were very similar. I think that creature entered our house when we were away. They had gone out. They returned. He set the burglar alarm and went to bed, so obviously he was in the house when they arrived and that's what I think happened in our case, yeah, I mean, this is Boulder Colorado and you know, mid to late the 90s I mean these two crimes are just complete and total outliers of what would have happened in the city otherwise totally similar but totally similar and yet never investigated as connected no and this is the truly disturbing part Amy and J Ramsey knew each other and went to the same dance school where they both performed on local shows in the months before their attacks, but incredibly, Boulder police repeatedly refused to investigate any possible link between the two cases, ruling it out, although They were the attack, the same detectives investigated, the cases investigated ours, I mean, it was pure buffoonery, huh.

Boulder police threw away the sheets where she was assaulted, so she couldn't go back and do DNA testing. I mean, they, like us, completely botched this investigation in 2008, 12 years after the murder of little John Benet, the Ramsy family were finally cleared as suspects, but John B's mother was already deceased, she died of cancer in 2006 without any killer. Behind bars, the widespread suspicion surrounding the families involved persists to this day, there is still a large part of the world that still thinks that the family had something to do with it and it is only for the reason that the narrative that It has been pushed for so many years that it had to be someone in the family, not based on evidence based on what they believe, because their theory was that from the very beginning, the police refused to talk for 60

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, but the force is making changes that are long overdue.

Late last year, the new police chief retired or demoted the detectives involved in the John Benet investigation and finally invited the Colorado Cold Case team to investigate, ending 27 years of incompetence, do you now feel like a lawyer at law? Have you been distressed by playing? Well, I think so, uh, I mean, it still emerges, you know, I'll see a little girl hanging under her father's hand walking down the street and that tugs at my heart, um. but I do believe that John Manet is in heaven. I'll see her again somehow. Don't know. My little brain can't fathom what that will be like, but I have faith in it.

And she would be safe if John Benet were alive today. She would have been 33 to the Ramsy family. Her death has meant a lifetime of anguish and suffering that has taken its toll. John Andrew will soon replace his elderly father in the family's battle for justice and vows not to give up until he appears. the murderer. is behind bars the facts are the players in this case are still alive today right the people with institutional knowledge are still here the witnesses are still here uh and the Killer is probably still alive right he hasn't aged so that if you look at Those Facts there is an opportunity that we can see you, everything is aligned well, that we can finally find this murderer.

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