Police Launch New Round of Interviews in JonBenet Ramsey Murder
JonBenet Ramsey was killed nearly 14 years ago.
 JonBenet Ramsey was killed in December 1996. (Getty Images) |
DENVER -- Nearly 14 years after six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her Boulder home, detectives have launched a new round of interviews looking for potentially missed clues.
Investigators have contacted several potential witnesses, including Burke Ramsey, JonBenet's brother.
Burke was 9 years old when his sister was found strangled in the family's basement. He's now 23, and police hope a new investigation may trigger memories of additional details.
All the members of the Ramsey family have come under police scrutiny at one time or another, including parents John and Patsy Ramsey.
They were officially cleared as suspects in 2008, two years after Patsy Ramsey died of ovarian cancer.
The murder mystery remains one of the hottest cold cases in the country.
Last month, a Boulder woman asked police to refocus on her former boyfriend, former Boulder journalist Chris Wolf.
Jacqueline Brungardt took samples of individual letters from journals and papers of Wolf's and compared them to the ransom note found in the Ramsey home.
Brungardt claimed when you overlay words like "arrange", "attaché", "adequate", "withdraw" and "exhausting" there are striking similarities.
She also noted there are also similarities to the way the letter "t" connects to the letter "o".
Brungardt said she hired an independent handwriting expert who concludes that Wolf wrote the ransom note.
She said she became suspicious of Wolf from the beginning due to his bizarre and obsessive behavior about the murder case.
But police said that Wolf was thoroughly investigated years ago and ruled out as a suspect.
They took an official handwriting sample from Wolf and a law enforcement handwriting expert concluded he did not write the ransom note.
Also, they said that Wolf's DNA did not match DNA found at the scene.
The case continues to draw interest, nearly 14 years after the December 26, 1996 murder.
Boulder DA Stan Garnett said they get two to three tips a week that they forward to the Boulder Police Department. And that the JonBenet mystery remains an open, active investigation.
Investigators have contacted several potential witnesses, including Burke Ramsey, JonBenet's brother.
Burke was 9 years old when his sister was found strangled in the family's basement. He's now 23, and police hope a new investigation may trigger memories of additional details.
All the members of the Ramsey family have come under police scrutiny at one time or another, including parents John and Patsy Ramsey.
They were officially cleared as suspects in 2008, two years after Patsy Ramsey died of ovarian cancer.
The murder mystery remains one of the hottest cold cases in the country.
Last month, a Boulder woman asked police to refocus on her former boyfriend, former Boulder journalist Chris Wolf.
Jacqueline Brungardt took samples of individual letters from journals and papers of Wolf's and compared them to the ransom note found in the Ramsey home.
Brungardt claimed when you overlay words like "arrange", "attaché", "adequate", "withdraw" and "exhausting" there are striking similarities.
She also noted there are also similarities to the way the letter "t" connects to the letter "o".
Brungardt said she hired an independent handwriting expert who concludes that Wolf wrote the ransom note.
She said she became suspicious of Wolf from the beginning due to his bizarre and obsessive behavior about the murder case.
But police said that Wolf was thoroughly investigated years ago and ruled out as a suspect.
They took an official handwriting sample from Wolf and a law enforcement handwriting expert concluded he did not write the ransom note.
Also, they said that Wolf's DNA did not match DNA found at the scene.
The case continues to draw interest, nearly 14 years after the December 26, 1996 murder.
Boulder DA Stan Garnett said they get two to three tips a week that they forward to the Boulder Police Department. And that the JonBenet mystery remains an open, active investigation.
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