Christmas Day 1996: Six hours after Patsy Ramsey’s frantic 911 call, JonBenet Ramsey’s body was found in the basement of her own home … It’s been two decades since six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered in a basement of her family’s mansion … The brutal killing remains unsolved. Overkill: The Unsolved Murder of JonBenet, YourTV 2018
#1) Did contamination of the crime scene prevent the killer from being caught? #2) Could a parent kill their child in such a horrific way? #3) Can conflicting evidence ever point to a single person? ibid.
She is so brutalised that at first authorities say there is no way a parent could inflict that kind of damage on their own child. Because of that, early speculation is that an intruder came into the home that night …’ ibid.
‘We just don’t know whose DNA it is.’ ibid. expert
Where did the cord come from that bound her hands? ibid.
‘The beauty pageant videos were very damaging.’ ibid. Paul Woodward, Denver journalist and author
The Ramseys hired a squadron of lawyers. ibid.
Lawrence Schiller: Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury’s Search for the Truth. ibid.
Some facts are completely open to interpretation. ibid.
‘That’s not the way good detective work works.’ ibid. Lawrence Schiller
There were too many possibilities at the crime scene that pointed away from the family. ibid.
New theories, new leads and a new investigation into the most notorious cold case in American history: the murder of JonBenet Ramsey. Now a mysterious source inside this Colorado prison says she can identify the people who killed JonBenet and left behind the world’s strangest clue: that bizarre ransom note and its cryptic signature SBTC. Hunting JonBenet’s Killer: The Untold Story, Elizabeth Vargas reporting, CI 2019
Ties to an apocalyptic cult leader. And that’s not the only theory: was it a dangerous drifter, a pageant father or someone else on this former detective’s vast database of leads? ibid.
‘New DNA tests point to a mysterious man who is not a member of the family.’ ibid. television news
‘Why would those fibres from her clothing end up in that suitcase [by basement window]?’ ibid. investigator
It’s the connection to these pageants that is the foundation of a new theory … The Pageant Dad … The woman’s name is Bernice Johnson and she’s currently serving time in prison for attempted murder … She’s been sending letters to our producer … Bernice’s theory is that this was a kidnapping for hire gone wrong … Bernice meets Todd Fuss. ibid.
Scott Caruthers: In the mid-90s the leader of a cult in Maryland, a cult called BDX … She goes on to claim that Scott Caruthers hired Todd Fuss to kidnap JonBenet Ramsey. ibid.
Todd & Aaron Schonlau: This theory comes from retired police officer Jim Benish who worked in the Colorado area: he sees possible connections between the Ramsey case and another unsolved murder committed years earlier. ibid.
Todd Fuss: DNA not a match. ibid.
Exclusive: ‘I Killed JonBenet Ramsey!’ Convicted pedophile Gary Oliva has confessed to the murder of six-year-old pageant princess in prison letters to his friend – claiming it was ‘an accident’:
Gary Oliva, 54, has long been a suspect in the murder of JonBenét Ramsey, whose body was found at her home in Boulder, Colorado on December 26, 1996.
In letters to high school classmate Michael Vail obtained by DailyMailTV, Oliva claims he killed JonBenét by accident.
‘I let her slip and her head bashed in half and I watched her die. It was an accident’, he wrote from Limon Correctional Facility, Colorado.
Oliva is serving a 10-year-sentence for possessing child pornography.
When Oliva was arrested in 2016, police discovered he had 335 photos of JonBenét including photos from the six-year-old’s autopsy.
Vail, 55, of Ventura, California, has urged police to charge Oliva for JonBenét's death since Oliva is due for parole in 2020.
Chillingly, Vail tells DailyMailTV that on December 26, 1996 Oliva told him: ‘I hurt a little girl.’
Investigators believe several men were involved in JonBenét's death and Vail hopes Oliva will identify them.
The incriminating letters have been presented to Boulder police and murder case investigators are now looking through the new information.
A longtime suspect in the murder of JonBenét Ramsey has finally admitted he killed the then six-year old beauty pageant queen, DailyMailTV can exclusively reveal.
Gary Oliva, 54, a convicted pedophile who is currently serving a 10-year sentence in a Colorado prison for child pornography, has admitted in letters obtained by DailyMailTV he killed her by accident.
Oliva, who was once jailed for trying to strangle his mother, wrote: ‘I never loved anyone like I did JonBenét and yet I let her slip and her head bashed in half and I watched her die. It was an accident. Please believe me. She was not like the other kids’. Mail online article 10 January 2019 Alan Butterfield
There is evidence of an intruder. I say this over and over again. JonBenet Ramsey: What Really Happened? ***** Smit tape, Discovery 2021
This was initially a kidnapping. A two-and-a-half-page random note was left in the house. The ransom note said, ‘Hey I’ll call you between 8-10 a.m.’. There was never any phone call. John Ramsey was asked to search the house and he finds his daughter’s body. ibid. Paula Woodward
The police allowed everyone in the house. Basically, the house is full of people. So this is a crime scene that is now being destroyed piece by piece. ibid. Smit
What we learn from the autopsy report was that JonBenet died from strangulation and from a blow to the head. ibid. woman
There were wanted posters with John Ramsey’s picture being circulated throughout Boulder. ibid.
The evidence points to someone inside the house rather than outside the house. ibid. Mark Beckner, Boulder rozzer
The pictures show some type of entry into the house. ibid. Smit
Foreign DNA was found under JonBenet’s fingernails and in her panties. ibid. woman
They’re [Boulder rozzers] trying to distort the facts and evidence of this case. ibid. Smit
Everything fits when we go with the intruder theory. ibid.
Thousands of tips were called in to the Boulder police department. ibid.
The DNA was foreign and had been determined not to belong to anyone in the Ramsey household. ibid. daughter
Lots of those items have never been [DNA] tested. ibid. brother of JonBenet