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27 years ago, child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey was killed in the basement of her family’s Colorado home. Her parents, John and Patricia, and her older brother, Burke, were the only people confirmed to be present at the scene.
The matriarch reportedly found the ransom note before realizing her daughter was missing. However, investigators thought the note was unusual.
Retired detective Fred Patterson of the Boulder Police Department explained, per CNN, “Number one, the length of the note was very long, three pages. “I’ve seen and worked a number of kidnappings for the FBI and most of the notes are very short, they’re very terse, very succinct and they give very specific instructions, almost like bullet points.”
He added that he had never encountered a ransom kidnapping case that asked for a specific amount of money — $118,000 in this case.
Some still argued that an intruder might be the killer, but it remained unsolved even after the reinvigoration of the investigation in 2022.
“The amount of DNA evidence available for analysis is extremely small and complex. The sample could, in whole or in part, be consumed by DNA testing,” Boulder police and district attorney wrote in a statement.
The message continued, “In collaboration with the CBI and the FBI, there have been several discussions with private DNA labs about the viability of continued testing of DNA recovered from the crime scene and genetic genealogy analysis … Whenever there is a proven technology that can reliably test forensic samples consistent with the samples available in this case, additional analysis will be conducted.”
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