The father of JonBenet Ramsey has revealed a shocking letter of confession for the death of his daughter.
John Ramsey received a letter from a woman who said her ex-husband killed the child beauty queen.
The letter has emerged as a new Netflix series brings new interest in the cold case.
“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,” John Ramsey told the Daily Mail.
In a devastating twist, the woman has not answered back after John Ramsey, who is now 81, called her to follow up.
“We reached out to her, but she didn’t answer the phone, so I don’t know,” he said.
“We’ve shared at this point with a private investigator.”
It was John Ramsey who found his daughter dead in the basement of their home on the day after Christmas in 1996.
The girl had been strangled, sexually assaulted, and crushed in the head.
From the case’s inception, a cloud of suspicion has hung over the Ramsey family, who quickly became the prime suspects in the eyes of police and the media.
John’s wife, Patsey, died of ovarian cancer in 2006, leaving John to advocate for JonBenet and clear the family name.
John told the Daily Mail that solving the case won’t change his life at this stage, “but it’ll change my children’s lives, my grandchildren’s lives.”
“They need to have this cloud removed, clarified, and an answer.
“That’s why we’re pushing so hard to get an answer.”
Public interest in the case has been renewed by the Netflix series “Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey.”
The documentary focuses on police errors, sensational media coverage targeting the Ramseys, and the possibility of an intruder being responsible.
The final episode in the three-part series focuses heavily on John Mark Karr.
Karr is a pedophile and teacher who was extradited from Thailand after he claimed to have murdered JonBenet.
His DNA did not match the crime, however.
Additionally, the graphic details that he shared of the murder were not consistent with the evidence.
Because of past confessions that turned out to be false, John Ramsey is guarded about new leads like the letter he just received.
However, he maintains that new DNA analysis techniques can help find the culprit.
“Bureaucrats, politicians, are impacted by public pressure big time, and we sense that that’s happening” with the Netflix series, he said.
The Boulder Police have denied obstructing the investigation.
In a recent update, the police department said:
“We are committed to following up on every lead and we are continuing to work with DNA experts and our law enforcement partners around the country until this tragic case is solved.”
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