John Ramsey Says Daughter JonBenet’s Death Connects to Other Cold Case
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As JonBenét Ramsey’s murder remains unanswered, her father, John Ramsey, has a theory about his daughter’s killer and their possible connection to another cold case.
John, 81, recently discussed an incident that occurred in 1997 where a girl — who attended the same dance studio as JonBenét — was assaulted by a masked intruder nine moments after his daughter’s murder.
“Well, I think there’s a very strong indication that there possibly is a connection,” John told Fox News Digital on Thursday, January 2. “The police blew it off in the beginning and — to my knowledge — never looked at that as an option.”
John recalled a conversation he had with the then-police chief, who allegedly said, “Well, it’s not the same because that little girl in the second incident was not murdered.”
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“That’s absurd to say something like that,” John said of the exchange.
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JonBenét was found dead at age 6 in 1996 in the basement of her house hours after she had been reported missing. Her official cause of death was asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma, and her death was ruled a homicide.
CBS subsequently reported on a case that took place in September 1997 involving one of JonBenét’s dance studio classmate. An unknown suspect broke into the girl’s home, which was two miles from the Ramsey residence, and attacked her. The unknown individual fled the scene and the case was never solved.
“My feeling is he got into the house while they were out and hid inside the house, so he would have been in there for perhaps four to six hours, hiding,” the victim’s father told 48 Hours at the time. “The first thing that occurred to us was that it was the parallel to the Ramsey case because it was exactly the same situation.”
John has remained certain that there’s a connection between his daughter’s murder and the unsolved attack.
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“There’s a possibility it was the same person [who killed JonBenét]. The method of operation for this person was the same,” he told Fox News Digital earlier this month. “I believe he was in our home when we got home from going out to friends’ for dinner with the kids. We went to bed, and he waited till we were asleep and attacked JonBenét.”
John continued: “In the second case, the parents had gone out. They came home, and they set the burglar alarm on. And the mother heard a noise, eventually, and went into the child’s bedroom, and there was a person standing over her bed. So the person was in the house when they came home because they set the burglar alarm. He couldn’t have gotten in otherwise.”
Former Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner previously dismissed the possibility of a connection between the two cases, saying in a 2000 statement, “While the two cases have some similarities, detectives found no definitive connection at the time.”
Over the years, the Boulder police looked into many suspects and theories surrounding the young girl’s death, including her brother, Burke Ramsey, and JonBenét’s parents, Patsy and John. A grand jury voted to indict the pair in 1999, but the indictment was never signed by the Boulder district attorney due to a lack of evidence. The couple were exonerated in 2008 and continued to advocate for JonBenét’s murderer to be found. (Patsy died of ovarian cancer in 2006.)
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The renewed interest in JonBenét’s case comes after Netflix released their three-part docuseries Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey. Before the special, a spokesperson for the Boulder PD told Us Weekly in a November 2024 statement that they are “aggressively investigating the case and pursuing all avenues.”
Meanwhile, a source connected to the authorities shared with Us that there have been “new sets of eyes” on the case in an attempt to find “anything that could have been overlooked.”
“No one is off the table. This case is still wide open,” the insider noted. “We are after the truth, whatever that is. We are going to leave no stone unturned. The kindest thing we can do for the Ramseys is to solve this.”
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