FINALLY! JUSTICE FOR JONBENET
This evil monster has confessed that he strangled the child beauty queen – 22 years after her brutal murder shocked the world
‘He felt the need to build a shrine to remember this little girl’
For years police have struggled to find out what happened to six-yearold Jonbenet Ramsey, who was found bludgeoned, with a garrotte that was used to strangle her still twisted around her neck in the basement of her home.
Her parents John and Patsy Ramsey and her brother Burke lived under a cloud of suspicion for years, before finally being “completely cleared” in 2008, after police revealed 1600 people were being investigated as persons of interest in her murder.
But in a shock twist, self-confessed “deranged pervert” and jailed paedophile Gary Howard Oliva, 54, has confessed to the terrible murder, sending a childhood friend 15 disturbing letters detailing his involvement in the chilling crime.
“Gary’s account of the murder is actually one of the most logical explanations I have heard in 20-plus years,” reveals childhood friend Michael Vail, who says the registered sex offender called him after the murder to admit he’d done something “horrible” to a child.
PRIME SUSPECT
He has also previously admitted to being near the crime scene when Jonbenet died on December 25 or 26, 1996, has a well-documented obsession with the beauty queen and was identified as a prime suspect by an investigator hired by her father John.
“I’ve always had a strong belief that Jonbenet died at the hands of a ring of paedophiles,” private investigator Ollie Gray alleged before his death in 2007. “Gary Oliva should have been looked at more closely years ago.”
CHILLING DISCOVERY
Oliva, a paranoid schizophrenic who claims he communicates with Jonbenet’s ghost, first came to the investigator’s notice in 1997 when he attended a vigil held at the crime scene on the first anniversary of her death.
But police did not interview him until he was arrested on drug charges in 2000 – and what they found in his backpack was truly chilling.
He had a picture of the angelic beauty queen, a poem titled Ode to Jonbenet and a stun gun – which was particularly disturbing because investigators believe such a weapon may have been used on the child before she was murdered.
He also created a shrine to Jonbenet in his prison cell, decorating the walls with pictures he draws of the murdered beauty queen, explaining he “felt the need to build a monument, a shrine, to remember this little girl”.
Certainly those close to Oliva believe he killed her, with Michael claiming his friend made a haunting confession.
“He was sobbing on the phone,” recalls Michael. “He related to me that he’d done something horrible. He was sobbing like you never heard a grown man sob or cry before in your life, and I knew it was serious.”
It certainly wasn’t the first time Oliva had done something that Michael found disturbing, revealing that he’s previously sent him graphic cassette tapes on which he simulated raping a child and talked of “making bacon strips out of little girls”.
“I’m into it, being a sick dog,” he says on one of the recordings.
Even before Jonbenet was killed, Oliva admitted “little girls turn me on” during a previous arrest. In 2002 he also admitted to an obsession with the beauty queen.
“When you see footage of her in her little cowboy suit going, ‘I wanna be a cowboy sweetheart’ and all that, I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said, admitting that he was living just down the street from the Ramseys when she was killed.
Oliva has always insisted he didn’t kill her and police were never able to officially tie him to the murder scene. Oliva submitted to a DNA test when he was questioned by police in 2000 – which
didn’t match DNA found on her body.
But he still remains a prime suspect because of his shocking confession to his friend, his proximity to the murder scene and a later conviction for child pornography.
The convicted drug user and paedophile has spent time in prison for the assault of a seven-year-old girl in Oregon, and once even tried to strangle his own mother with a telephone cord. And three years ago he was sentenced to 10 years in jail for uploading child pornography from the internet.
“Investigators will scrutinise his every moment, everyone he’s been with, everything he’s said and everything he’s done,” promises private investigator and former New York homicide detective Richard “Bo” Dietl. “They smell blood in the water.”