Almost 12 years after the death of 6 year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, new findings have finally cleared the family’s name!
Prosecutors were able to clear JonBenet’s parents and older brother Wednesday for the unexplained killing.
According to the district attorney Mary Lacy, new DNA tests point to an unidentified outsider.
Lacy wrote in a letter to JonBenet’s father, John, “To the extent that we may have contributed in any way to the public perception that you might have been involved in this crime, I am deeply sorry. No innocent person should have to endure such an extensive trial in the court of public opinion.”
Yea, it’s a little TOO late for sorries from her.
Why did it take this long to clear their name?!?!
According to Lacy, it was the new “touch DNA” tests that were done on skin cells left behind on JonBenet’s long underwear that point to a third party and not a family member.
As for John Ramsey, he remains hopeful that the killer will now be found thanks to the new DNA evidence.
He says, “I think the people that are in charge of the investigation are focused on that, and that gives me a lot of comfort. Certainly we are grateful that they acknowledged that we, based on that, certainly could not have been involved.”
Unfortunately for JonBenet’s mother, Patsy, she never lived to be cleared of her name. Patsy passed away in 2006 at the age of 49 due to ovarian cancer.
An attorney for the Ramsey’s said, “My first thought was obviously I wish Patsy Ramsey was here with us to be able to at least share vindication of her family. There are many people in this country, if not around the world, that also owe John and Patsy Ramsey and Burke Ramsey an apology.”
Despite the fact that police found a drop of blood on JonBenet’s underwear that matched it to the DNA of a male not belonging to the family, prosecutors argued that they were unable to determine where that blood came from or that it was even the killer’s.
But now the new touch DNA tests taken from the sides of JonBenet’s long underwear matched that of the original blood DNA found years ago.
Hopes are that one day they can find a DNA match in the expanding national DNA databank.
Let’s hope they find the killer as soon as possible.
The family deserves some rest and millions of apologies.