US Politics | Chilling words of rapist in case ‘linked to JonBenet Ramsey’ murder revealed as dad fears serial night stalker to blame
A TEENAGE girl raped in her bed during a horrific attack that her family believes is linked to the murder of JonBenet Ramsey was issued a chilling warning by her attacker before he vanished into the night. The girl, 12, who The U.S. Sun is referring to under the pseudonym ...Amy..., was attacked in her family's Boulder, Colorado home by a masked assailant dressed in all black on September 14, 1997. 
Amy's attack, like JonBenet's murder, has never been solvedGetty 
APShe was found dead in the basement of her family's Boulder, Colorado home on Dec. 16, 1996 '/ ' Amy awoke just after midnight to find a darkly-clad figure standing over her bed with his hand clasped over her mouth. The attacker addressed Amy by her first name and told her several times: ...I know who you are ... I'll knock you out, shut up.... She was then sexually assaulted and forced to perform sex acts on the assailant before Amy's mom burst into the room and chased him off. The sickening incident unfolded less than two miles away from where six-year-old child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered seven months earlier on December 26, 1996. Read More On Crime 
NIGHT STALKER? Dad fears chilling link with daughter's rapist & JonBenet Ramsey murder 
DANGEROUS OVERSIGHT Delphi murder cops 'forgot suspect's huge admission five years ago' Neither of the two cases has ever been solved, but Amy's family believes the man who attacked their daughter may also be responsible for killing JonBenet. Amy attended the same dance studio as JonBenet, and both of the girls performed in a number of public events in the months before they were both victimized. Speaking anonymously to The U.S. Sun, Amy's father said he thinks the attacker may have ...drawn a bead... on both of the girls at their dance studio and surveilled them for several weeks before striking. HORRIFIC ATTACK In the hours before Amy was attacked, she had been out watching a movie with her mom while her dad was out of town for work. They returned home late and alone. Amy's mother whisked the girl off the bed, saying goodnight before switching on the burglar alarm and heading off to sleep herself. Most read in The US Sun SHOCK TWIST Debbie Collier death ruled 'suicide' after nude and burned body found in woods FOUR-WARNED I am a time traveller from 2671 - here are 4 dates 'big things' will happen BLOOD FEUDS How Russian oligarchs are 'MURDERING each other' in bloody battle for power MISSING HOST-IN Sunny missing from The View as Joy shares reason for co-host's absence SHED THE POUNDS I was world's fattest girl who weighed 420lbs aged 8…now I'm UNRECOGNISABLE SHOCKED SUNNY The View's Sara Haines snaps at Sunny Hostin to 'stop' her behavior Within a matter of hours, Amy would wake in her bed to find her attacker leering over her. Amy's family believes the man planned to abduct the girl after the assault but he was ultimately interrupted by Amy's mom. From down the hall, Amy's mother was unsettled when she awoke to hear the sound of hushed voices coming from her daughter's room. She called out to her daughter to check if she was okay but didn't receive a response. Amy's mom got out of bed and grabbed a can of pepper spray from her nightstand. As she burst into her daughter's room, the assailant brushed her to one side, before fleeing the home by leaping from a second-floor window and taking off on foot. By the time Boulder police arrived on scene, the shadowy figure had disappeared into the night. Amy's family likened the assailant to a ...ninja... who vanished ...like a ghost.... There are so many similarities between the two cases that I think there's a very good chance it was the same person ... The only difference is my daughter survived. Amy's Daddiscussing JonBenet links Amy's attacker was never caught, but her father has never given up hope he will one day be unmasked. Finally identifying the attacker, he believes, may also finally help to solve who killed JonBenet. ...There are so many similarities between the two cases that I think there's a very good chance it was the same person,... said Amy's dad, who wished to remain anonymous. ...In both cases, this is someone who was able to get past an alarm, past a dog and was probably hiding inside the home for some time before attacking. ...It looks like someone who hid in the house while people were out and then came out in the middle of the night after they came home and locked up. ...The only difference is my daughter survived,... Amy's dad added. ...But had it not been for my wife being a light sleeper, we may have been in the newspapers for the same reasons as the Ramsey family.... CHILLING LINKS At the center of Amy's dad's beliefs that his daughter's attack may be linked to the death of JonBenet is the fact that Amy, like the slain child beauty pageant queen, took frequent dance lessons at a local studio on Pearl Street called Dance West. Both of the girls also performed at public functions in the months prior to being victimized. Amy danced in public several times in the months before she was attacked, while JonBenet, who held the title of Little Miss Christmas, featured in a holiday parade shortly before her murder. Amy's dad believes that both of the girls may have been stalked and targeted by their attacker \- or attackers \- at the dance studio. ...It was a fairly open place that you could just come and go from,... Amy's dad said of Dance West, adding that there was an observation balcony where members of the public could just walk in and sit. ...If you were someone who wanted to sit and watch young girls dance, that would've been a good place to do it. ...It was very easy to come and go undetected,... he added. ...I think someone could've drawn a bead on 'Amy ' there and put us under some kind of surveillance that we weren't aware of at the time. ...It's hard to say for certain but it seems to be a strong possibility.... The owner of the since-demolished studio, Lee Klinger, previously told local media that he was never contacted by law enforcement investigating either case. 
DatelineJonBenet Ramsey's murder is one of the most infamous unsolved cases in US history '/ ' 
ReutersPatsy and John Ramsey, the girl's parents, are seen during a press conference shortly after her death '/ ' 
Family HandoutJonBenet Ramsey attended the same dance studio as Amy before her death '/ ' POLICE UNDER FIRE Adding to Amy's dad's belief that his daughter's attack may be linked to JonBenet's death is the fact his family's home was also in an affluent neighborhood just two miles from the Ramseys'. Further fueling the theory, he says, was that a collection of cigarette butts found outside of Amy's family's home matched cigarette stubbings that were found in an alleyway next to the Ramsey home: Camel Blues. Amy's dad said he pointed out the perceived similarities between his daughter's case and JonBenet's ...multiple times... to the Boulder Police Department but they were ...uninterested... and quick to dismiss the potential parallels, he claims. Speaking to The U.S. Sun, he charged: ...They were completely uninterested ... they didn't care about my daughter's case and they didn't even really care about the Ramsey case. ...I'd contact them regularly, asking if they'd looked into this or that and they'd just lie to me. ...We asked to see some mugshots of sex offenders in the area to see if 'Amy ' or my wife recognized anyone but we were told that wouldn't be any good. ...We asked them to send someone over to make a composite sketch of the suspect using my wife's eyewitness description but they refused. ...The Denver Police Department even offered to help them out with the case but they said they had it covered and they knew what they were doing. ...But they wouldn't hear anything about this being linked to JonBenet,... he continued. ...They didn't seem to be able to get off the idea that someone in the Ramsey family was responsible for her death. ...The level of incompetence was pretty impressive, but the worst thing was that they were dishonest. ...I had a number of pretty intense confrontations with the chief of police at the time, who also lied about multiple things \- so it was an eye-opener for sure.... DARK SECRETS A spokesperson for the Boulder Police Department declined to comment on the claims of disinterest made by Amy's dad. But so dissatisfied with Boulder PD's handling of the investigation into the attack on his daughter, he hired a private investigator, Pete Peterson, to dig into the case and also conducted his own independent probe. Peterson, who has since died, carried out background checks on a number of people who worked in the surrounding neighborhood and found a group of individuals with criminal histories, who often roamed the neighborhood late at night. He made surveillance tapes and tailed some members of the group, once apparently following them to within two blocks of the Ramsey home. Additionally, Peterson said during his investigation he found evidence of 19 burglaries, breaking and entering, or trespassing reports in a two-month period in the surrounding neighborhood. The PI conducted background checks on a number of people of interest in Amy's case and found that some of them had reportedly once worked at the Ramsey home. They were completely uninterested ... they didn't care about my daughter's case and they didn't even really care about the Ramsey case. Amy's dad ...I expected it to be a serene, quiet, safe area,... Peterson told CBS in 2000 of the Boulder suburbs. ...It's fairly serene and quiet, but you find that there's a real undercurrent of activity at night that would give me pause for concern if I lived here. ...Two or three people we were looking at had associations with both 'the Ramseys' and Amy's ' neighborhoods. ...I think there's a really good likelihood 'the cases are connected '. ...That's what we're pursuing. We're pursuing that angle still.... NIGHT STALKER FEARS In the decades since \- ever frustrated by the lack of answers \- Amy's dad has conducted his own research in search of his daughter's attacker. He claims to have uncovered a handful of other instances of home invasion rapes and sexual assaults involving children and young women in the Boulder area around the time of the attack on Amy. Such as his daughter, Amy's dad said the victims typically awoke in the middle of the night to find a man in dark clothing standing in their bedroom. The Boulder Police Department was unable to provide data to affirm or contradict Amy's dad's claims when contacted by The U.S. Sun. However, a number of serial rapists were active in the Boulder area at the time, including Keith Aaron Schwinaman, and the so-called Tantra Lake Rapist Bradford Wagner. Both men have been previously identified as potential suspects in connection with the JonBenet probe but neither was ever charged and evidence gathered didn't place either of them at the scene. 
GettyMany potential suspects and figures of suspicion have emerged in the more than two-and-a-half decades since JonBenet's death, including her parents '/ ' 
Ramsey familyJonBenet performed in a number of public events before her death '/ ' Still, Amy's father believes his daughter's attack and the killing of JonBenet may have been the work of a local serial rapist who was quietly terrorizing the area. Again he put his theory forward to Boulder PD but they were uninterested and hostile, he said. ...I told them that I had uncovered a series that seemed to be a serial rapist interested in girls and young women and this got to the Boulder PD rape crisis team,... he said, ...and they called me and told me to mind my own business. ...They told me there was no such thing and no such reports, and so I spoke to the police and they told me it also wasn't possible. ...They told me the cases couldn't possibly be linked because they occurred in different parts of town. ...I said, ...well have you ever heard of a bicycle or a car? You really think someone can't go from one neighborhood to the other?' ...There was just massive disinterest in this on the part of the police and anything that may have been linked to the JonBenet case. ...They were convinced at the time that the Ramseys had done it and they weren't interested in hearing about anything else \- regardless of whether anyone else was at risk or anything.... ENDURING MYSTERY Amy's dad believes the Boulder PD's handling of his daughter's case may have squandered any chance they had of ever solving the murder of JonBenet. The six-year-old was reported missing by her mother just after 5am on Dec. 26. 1996, who frantically told the operator ...my daughter's been kidnapped.... Her father John Ramsey found her dead in the basement later the same day minutes after being told by police to go and search the home for clues as to where she might be. JonBenet had suffered a traumatic blow to the side of her head, likely caused by a hard, rounded object, and had a rope tied around her neck which had been used to strangle her to death. The girl also had tape over her mouth and rope around her wrist, both of which appeared to have been placed on her body post-mortem, investigators said. At the center of the investigation's tangled web is a strange, haphazardly written ransom note that JonBenet's mother Patsy claimed to have found on a stairwell inside the home moments after finding her daughter missing from her bed. The two-and-a-half-page letter, which was crafted using stationary found inside the Ramsey home, was addressed to John and demanded $118,000 in exchange for the girl's safe return. If the family alerted the police or failed to follow their instructions to the letter then JonBenet would be beheaded, the apparent captors warned in the note, which was signed ...Victory! S.B.T.C... Many potential suspects and figures of suspicion have emerged in the more than two-and-a-half decades since her gruesome death, but no culprit has ever been apprehended. John and Patsy Ramsey were heavily scrutinized and interrogated by police, with investigators questioning whether JonBenet may have been accidentally killed by a member of her own family and her death then staged to look like a fatal kidnapping. But the Ramseys maintained their innocence. They were never formally named as suspects and ultimately absolved of all suspicion in 2008 thanks to advancements in DNA technology. Despite the exoneration, suspicions and conspiracy theories persist. Speaking to the lack of closure in both his daughter's and JonBenet's cases, Amy's dad said: ...I think if they'd actually investigated the Ramsey murder, a lot of other people in town who were accosted in various ways probably wouldn't have been harmed. ...If they would've investigated any number of the things we found or better-preserved evidence in the JonBenet case, I think they would've had a good chance of finding the perpetrator. ...But it was just abysmal, irresponsible police work. ...They really should be ashamed of themselves.... ...JUSTICE IS COMING' Amy's father said it took the best part of two decades for his daughter to recover from the trauma of her attack. The incident, he said, gave their entire family PTSD and took years of therapy for them to overcome. ...She's doing great now, but it took an enormous amount of work to get there,... he said. ...I think this all could've been avoided had they better investigated JonBenet's death.... 
Rex ShutterstockJonBenet's family has previously voiced doubt her murder will ever be solved '/ ' 
Ramsey was a regular on the child beauty pageant circuit and may have been targeted during one of her public performances, some investigators believeRex Features 
AP:Associated PressThe Ramseys were exonerated of any wrongdoing in 2008 '/ ' Earlier this week, following months of appeals from JonBenet's family, Boulder PD and the Boulder County district attorney's office announced that they will be enlisting the help of a state cold case team, as well as private DNA laboratories, to re-investigate the death of JonBenet. "As in any cold case homicide, the investigation can always benefit from the perspective of outside experts," authorities said in a statement. "So, in addition to talking with the private DNA labs, the Boulder Police Department will be consulting with the Colorado Cold Case Review Team in 2023." Like Amy's dad, John Ramsey has long criticized Boulder PD's handling of the investigation into his daughter's death. In a recent interview, he told 9News he doesn't believe the case will ever be solved. ...Not if it stays in the hands of the Boulder Police, no, I don't," Ramsey said."I really don't." While Amy's dad shares John Ramsey's pejorative opinions of Boulder PD, he clings to the hope that one-day justice will be served. Read More on The US Sun 
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Amy's attack, like JonBenet's murder, has never been solvedGetty APShe was found dead in the basement of her family's Boulder, Colorado home on Dec. 16, 1996 '/ ' Amy awoke just after midnight to find a darkly-clad figure standing over her bed with his hand clasped over her mouth. The attacker addressed Amy by her first name and told her several times: ...I know who you are ... I'll knock you out, shut up.... She was then sexually assaulted and forced to perform sex acts on the assailant before Amy's mom burst into the room and chased him off. The sickening incident unfolded less than two miles away from where six-year-old child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered seven months earlier on December 26, 1996. Read More On Crime NIGHT STALKER? Dad fears chilling link with daughter's rapist & JonBenet Ramsey murder DANGEROUS OVERSIGHT Delphi murder cops 'forgot suspect's huge admission five years ago' Neither of the two cases has ever been solved, but Amy's family believes the man who attacked their daughter may also be responsible for killing JonBenet. Amy attended the same dance studio as JonBenet, and both of the girls performed in a number of public events in the months before they were both victimized. Speaking anonymously to The U.S. Sun, Amy's father said he thinks the attacker may have ...drawn a bead... on both of the girls at their dance studio and surveilled them for several weeks before striking. HORRIFIC ATTACK In the hours before Amy was attacked, she had been out watching a movie with her mom while her dad was out of town for work. They returned home late and alone. Amy's mother whisked the girl off the bed, saying goodnight before switching on the burglar alarm and heading off to sleep herself. Most read in The US Sun SHOCK TWIST Debbie Collier death ruled 'suicide' after nude and burned body found in woods FOUR-WARNED I am a time traveller from 2671 - here are 4 dates 'big things' will happen BLOOD FEUDS How Russian oligarchs are 'MURDERING each other' in bloody battle for power MISSING HOST-IN Sunny missing from The View as Joy shares reason for co-host's absence SHED THE POUNDS I was world's fattest girl who weighed 420lbs aged 8…now I'm UNRECOGNISABLE SHOCKED SUNNY The View's Sara Haines snaps at Sunny Hostin to 'stop' her behavior Within a matter of hours, Amy would wake in her bed to find her attacker leering over her. Amy's family believes the man planned to abduct the girl after the assault but he was ultimately interrupted by Amy's mom. From down the hall, Amy's mother was unsettled when she awoke to hear the sound of hushed voices coming from her daughter's room. She called out to her daughter to check if she was okay but didn't receive a response. Amy's mom got out of bed and grabbed a can of pepper spray from her nightstand. As she burst into her daughter's room, the assailant brushed her to one side, before fleeing the home by leaping from a second-floor window and taking off on foot. By the time Boulder police arrived on scene, the shadowy figure had disappeared into the night. Amy's family likened the assailant to a ...ninja... who vanished ...like a ghost.... There are so many similarities between the two cases that I think there's a very good chance it was the same person ... The only difference is my daughter survived. Amy's Daddiscussing JonBenet links Amy's attacker was never caught, but her father has never given up hope he will one day be unmasked. Finally identifying the attacker, he believes, may also finally help to solve who killed JonBenet. ...There are so many similarities between the two cases that I think there's a very good chance it was the same person,... said Amy's dad, who wished to remain anonymous. ...In both cases, this is someone who was able to get past an alarm, past a dog and was probably hiding inside the home for some time before attacking. ...It looks like someone who hid in the house while people were out and then came out in the middle of the night after they came home and locked up. ...The only difference is my daughter survived,... Amy's dad added. ...But had it not been for my wife being a light sleeper, we may have been in the newspapers for the same reasons as the Ramsey family.... CHILLING LINKS At the center of Amy's dad's beliefs that his daughter's attack may be linked to the death of JonBenet is the fact that Amy, like the slain child beauty pageant queen, took frequent dance lessons at a local studio on Pearl Street called Dance West. Both of the girls also performed at public functions in the months prior to being victimized. Amy danced in public several times in the months before she was attacked, while JonBenet, who held the title of Little Miss Christmas, featured in a holiday parade shortly before her murder. Amy's dad believes that both of the girls may have been stalked and targeted by their attacker \- or attackers \- at the dance studio. ...It was a fairly open place that you could just come and go from,... Amy's dad said of Dance West, adding that there was an observation balcony where members of the public could just walk in and sit. ...If you were someone who wanted to sit and watch young girls dance, that would've been a good place to do it. ...It was very easy to come and go undetected,... he added. ...I think someone could've drawn a bead on 'Amy ' there and put us under some kind of surveillance that we weren't aware of at the time. ...It's hard to say for certain but it seems to be a strong possibility.... The owner of the since-demolished studio, Lee Klinger, previously told local media that he was never contacted by law enforcement investigating either case. DatelineJonBenet Ramsey's murder is one of the most infamous unsolved cases in US history '/ ' ReutersPatsy and John Ramsey, the girl's parents, are seen during a press conference shortly after her death '/ ' Family HandoutJonBenet Ramsey attended the same dance studio as Amy before her death '/ ' POLICE UNDER FIRE Adding to Amy's dad's belief that his daughter's attack may be linked to JonBenet's death is the fact his family's home was also in an affluent neighborhood just two miles from the Ramseys'. Further fueling the theory, he says, was that a collection of cigarette butts found outside of Amy's family's home matched cigarette stubbings that were found in an alleyway next to the Ramsey home: Camel Blues. Amy's dad said he pointed out the perceived similarities between his daughter's case and JonBenet's ...multiple times... to the Boulder Police Department but they were ...uninterested... and quick to dismiss the potential parallels, he claims. Speaking to The U.S. Sun, he charged: ...They were completely uninterested ... they didn't care about my daughter's case and they didn't even really care about the Ramsey case. ...I'd contact them regularly, asking if they'd looked into this or that and they'd just lie to me. ...We asked to see some mugshots of sex offenders in the area to see if 'Amy ' or my wife recognized anyone but we were told that wouldn't be any good. ...We asked them to send someone over to make a composite sketch of the suspect using my wife's eyewitness description but they refused. ...The Denver Police Department even offered to help them out with the case but they said they had it covered and they knew what they were doing. ...But they wouldn't hear anything about this being linked to JonBenet,... he continued. ...They didn't seem to be able to get off the idea that someone in the Ramsey family was responsible for her death. ...The level of incompetence was pretty impressive, but the worst thing was that they were dishonest. ...I had a number of pretty intense confrontations with the chief of police at the time, who also lied about multiple things \- so it was an eye-opener for sure.... DARK SECRETS A spokesperson for the Boulder Police Department declined to comment on the claims of disinterest made by Amy's dad. But so dissatisfied with Boulder PD's handling of the investigation into the attack on his daughter, he hired a private investigator, Pete Peterson, to dig into the case and also conducted his own independent probe. Peterson, who has since died, carried out background checks on a number of people who worked in the surrounding neighborhood and found a group of individuals with criminal histories, who often roamed the neighborhood late at night. He made surveillance tapes and tailed some members of the group, once apparently following them to within two blocks of the Ramsey home. Additionally, Peterson said during his investigation he found evidence of 19 burglaries, breaking and entering, or trespassing reports in a two-month period in the surrounding neighborhood. The PI conducted background checks on a number of people of interest in Amy's case and found that some of them had reportedly once worked at the Ramsey home. They were completely uninterested ... they didn't care about my daughter's case and they didn't even really care about the Ramsey case. Amy's dad ...I expected it to be a serene, quiet, safe area,... Peterson told CBS in 2000 of the Boulder suburbs. ...It's fairly serene and quiet, but you find that there's a real undercurrent of activity at night that would give me pause for concern if I lived here. ...Two or three people we were looking at had associations with both 'the Ramseys' and Amy's ' neighborhoods. ...I think there's a really good likelihood 'the cases are connected '. ...That's what we're pursuing. We're pursuing that angle still.... NIGHT STALKER FEARS In the decades since \- ever frustrated by the lack of answers \- Amy's dad has conducted his own research in search of his daughter's attacker. He claims to have uncovered a handful of other instances of home invasion rapes and sexual assaults involving children and young women in the Boulder area around the time of the attack on Amy. Such as his daughter, Amy's dad said the victims typically awoke in the middle of the night to find a man in dark clothing standing in their bedroom. The Boulder Police Department was unable to provide data to affirm or contradict Amy's dad's claims when contacted by The U.S. Sun. However, a number of serial rapists were active in the Boulder area at the time, including Keith Aaron Schwinaman, and the so-called Tantra Lake Rapist Bradford Wagner. Both men have been previously identified as potential suspects in connection with the JonBenet probe but neither was ever charged and evidence gathered didn't place either of them at the scene. GettyMany potential suspects and figures of suspicion have emerged in the more than two-and-a-half decades since JonBenet's death, including her parents '/ ' Ramsey familyJonBenet performed in a number of public events before her death '/ ' Still, Amy's father believes his daughter's attack and the killing of JonBenet may have been the work of a local serial rapist who was quietly terrorizing the area. Again he put his theory forward to Boulder PD but they were uninterested and hostile, he said. ...I told them that I had uncovered a series that seemed to be a serial rapist interested in girls and young women and this got to the Boulder PD rape crisis team,... he said, ...and they called me and told me to mind my own business. ...They told me there was no such thing and no such reports, and so I spoke to the police and they told me it also wasn't possible. ...They told me the cases couldn't possibly be linked because they occurred in different parts of town. ...I said, ...well have you ever heard of a bicycle or a car? You really think someone can't go from one neighborhood to the other?' ...There was just massive disinterest in this on the part of the police and anything that may have been linked to the JonBenet case. ...They were convinced at the time that the Ramseys had done it and they weren't interested in hearing about anything else \- regardless of whether anyone else was at risk or anything.... ENDURING MYSTERY Amy's dad believes the Boulder PD's handling of his daughter's case may have squandered any chance they had of ever solving the murder of JonBenet. The six-year-old was reported missing by her mother just after 5am on Dec. 26. 1996, who frantically told the operator ...my daughter's been kidnapped.... Her father John Ramsey found her dead in the basement later the same day minutes after being told by police to go and search the home for clues as to where she might be. JonBenet had suffered a traumatic blow to the side of her head, likely caused by a hard, rounded object, and had a rope tied around her neck which had been used to strangle her to death. The girl also had tape over her mouth and rope around her wrist, both of which appeared to have been placed on her body post-mortem, investigators said. At the center of the investigation's tangled web is a strange, haphazardly written ransom note that JonBenet's mother Patsy claimed to have found on a stairwell inside the home moments after finding her daughter missing from her bed. The two-and-a-half-page letter, which was crafted using stationary found inside the Ramsey home, was addressed to John and demanded $118,000 in exchange for the girl's safe return. If the family alerted the police or failed to follow their instructions to the letter then JonBenet would be beheaded, the apparent captors warned in the note, which was signed ...Victory! S.B.T.C... Many potential suspects and figures of suspicion have emerged in the more than two-and-a-half decades since her gruesome death, but no culprit has ever been apprehended. John and Patsy Ramsey were heavily scrutinized and interrogated by police, with investigators questioning whether JonBenet may have been accidentally killed by a member of her own family and her death then staged to look like a fatal kidnapping. But the Ramseys maintained their innocence. They were never formally named as suspects and ultimately absolved of all suspicion in 2008 thanks to advancements in DNA technology. Despite the exoneration, suspicions and conspiracy theories persist. Speaking to the lack of closure in both his daughter's and JonBenet's cases, Amy's dad said: ...I think if they'd actually investigated the Ramsey murder, a lot of other people in town who were accosted in various ways probably wouldn't have been harmed. ...If they would've investigated any number of the things we found or better-preserved evidence in the JonBenet case, I think they would've had a good chance of finding the perpetrator. ...But it was just abysmal, irresponsible police work. ...They really should be ashamed of themselves.... ...JUSTICE IS COMING' Amy's father said it took the best part of two decades for his daughter to recover from the trauma of her attack. The incident, he said, gave their entire family PTSD and took years of therapy for them to overcome. ...She's doing great now, but it took an enormous amount of work to get there,... he said. ...I think this all could've been avoided had they better investigated JonBenet's death.... Rex ShutterstockJonBenet's family has previously voiced doubt her murder will ever be solved '/ ' Ramsey was a regular on the child beauty pageant circuit and may have been targeted during one of her public performances, some investigators believeRex Features AP:Associated PressThe Ramseys were exonerated of any wrongdoing in 2008 '/ ' Earlier this week, following months of appeals from JonBenet's family, Boulder PD and the Boulder County district attorney's office announced that they will be enlisting the help of a state cold case team, as well as private DNA laboratories, to re-investigate the death of JonBenet. "As in any cold case homicide, the investigation can always benefit from the perspective of outside experts," authorities said in a statement. "So, in addition to talking with the private DNA labs, the Boulder Police Department will be consulting with the Colorado Cold Case Review Team in 2023." Like Amy's dad, John Ramsey has long criticized Boulder PD's handling of the investigation into his daughter's death. In a recent interview, he told 9News he doesn't believe the case will ever be solved. ...Not if it stays in the hands of the Boulder Police, no, I don't," Ramsey said."I really don't." While Amy's dad shares John Ramsey's pejorative opinions of Boulder PD, he clings to the hope that one-day justice will be served. Read More on The US Sun CLEANED OUT Brian Laundrie's parents break cover for 1st time after $3m Gabby Petito ruling DONE IN DISNEY Ex Disney Channel star says childhood fame caused 'trauma' & binge-drinking ...As they say, the wheels of justice grind slowly but they're going to find him sooner or later. ...The wheel of Karma is going to come back around....
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