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Netflix’s newest docuseries about JonBenét Ramsey‘s murder attempted to debunk theories that pointed to her parents, John and Patsy, as the potential killers.
Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey, which premiered on Monday, November 25, featured interviews with various experts, reporters and family members who denied that there was evidence linking John and Patsy Ramsey to JonBenét’s death. The three-part docuseries went on to highlight proof of John and Patsy’s innocence and lack of involvement in their daughter’s murder.
“We were being prosecuted in the court of public opinion. By that time, we were pretty much convicted,” John shared in the docuseries. “Gallup, the poll people, did a poll at some point in that period. 70 percent of those polled felt that the family killed their daughter. That the parents killed their daughter.”
JonBenét was found dead at age 6 in the basement of her house hours after she had been reported missing. She had sustained a broken skull and a garrote was tied around her neck. JonBenét’s official cause of death was asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma and her death was ruled a homicide. In the years since JonBenét’s murder, the Boulder police looked into many suspects and theories. Patsy and John, who are also parents to son Burke, were accused of being involved in her death and a grand jury voted to indict the pair in 1999. The indictment was never signed by the Boulder district attorney, however, because there was a lack of evidence. The couple were exonerated in 2008 when DNA testing helped investigators determine that the DNA found on JonBenét’s body was from an unrelated male. Burke, meanwhile, was also accused by the public of being involved in her death. After The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey aired in 2016, Burke sued CBS and the producers over an insinuation that he killed JonBenét. The case settled out of court for an undisclosed amount in 2019.
