For several years, the murder of little JonBenet Ramsey was blamed on her family members. However, the investigators had irrefutable proof to exculpate them: a DNA analysis that remained secret.
But what really happened during the investigation into the murder of JonBenet Ramsey? For many years, all suspicions of the murder of the little American pointed to the members of her family, for lack of evidence exculpating them. A terrible accusation that completely destroyed these people, convinced that they had nothing to do with it and forced to defend themselves despite being plunged into terrible mourning.
However, the investigators had in their possession a more than formal clue to exculpate them, but they never used it. A new book by former El Paso County Sheriff John W. Anderson, now an author, reveals that DNA evidence was allegedly hidden as it cleared the little girl’s relatives killed in 1996. The work is particularly interested in the work of former investigator Lou Smit, who was in charge of this burning file.
The investigation into the murder of JonBenet Ramsey is fully relaunched
“Boulder police allegedly ignored DNA evidence for the past quarter century that exonerated the Ramseys and could have identified the killer,” writes black on white the former sheriff, who has been able to break the silence now that the investigation has been closed. The author explains that the parents of little JonBenet Ramsey should not have been singled out so much by the police, who had no proof of their involvement in this terrible murder.
While a grand jury voted to indict the parents for child abuse causing death and complicity in a crime in 1998, ten years later prosecutor Mary Lacy publicly apologized to the family for having them suspected are them and JonBenet’s brother, Burke, who was 9 at the time of the murder.
The DNA report quoted by John W. Anderson in his book is said to be from Lou Smit’s personal records. It is written there that evidence found under JonBenet’s fingernails and on his underwear did not match his family members, no more than to friends or to the governess who was also suspected for a time. The investigation is therefore fully relaunched.