JonBenet Ramsey's Brother Supports Petition To Take Case Away From Failed Local Police!
04.05.2022 - 02:57
/ perezhilton.com
JonBenet Ramsey’s brother — no, not that brother — wants to hand her murder case to experts who will get the job done!
As you likely know, the 6-year-old beauty pageant queen was found dead in the basement of her family’s Boulder, Colorado, home on December 26, 1996. Since then, the lead investigative agency in the case has mainly been the Boulder Police Department — but supporters think it’s time to change that.
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Over the weekend, an online petition was launched calling on Governor Jared Polis to hand the case over to an outside law enforcement agency and use the latest DNA technology to solve it. The petition read:
One of the biggest supporters of this petition is JonBenet’s half-brother John Andrew Ramsey, who told The Sun:
John Andrew said his dad has been trying to get outside investigators involved since the ‘90s, adding that this petition “is making his private effort public.” He noted:
Many agree with him: the petition has garnered over 5,200 signatures as of this writing — quickly approaching its 7,500 goal.
For his part, Polis already responded to the petition in a statement from is office, which read:
John Andrew said the governor’s fast response “was a good sign,” sharing:
Boulder police, meanwhile, are still working hard to do the same. In a statement on Sunday, the department said they met with federal, state, and local agencies and consulted “with DNA experts from around the country” as recently as March.
John Andrew said that’s an “encouraging” change from December 2021, when it was reported that the Boulder PD didn’t contact top crime genealogists or cutting-edge genealogy labs built to solve cold cases. The department said in the statement:
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