DNA IS FINAL HOPE TO CATCH JONBENET KILLER
Cops out of clues 25 years after tragic murder stunned America
MORE than two decades after JonBenet Ramsey was found fatally strangled in her family’s Colorado home, cops say genetic DNA testing is the key to unmasking the six-year-old beauty queen’s killer!
JonBenet’s bludgeoned body was discovered on Dec. 26, 1996, in the basement of her parents’ Boulder house — hours after her late mom, Patsy, reported the tiny tyke missing.
Investigators say they’ve since analyzed nearly 1,500 pieces of evidence related to the cold case killing — and reviewed 21,016 tips — but have never found a direct match to DNA found on JonBenet’s underwear.
After coming up empty for 25 years, Boulder detectives say they are looking into “genetic DNA testing processes to see if they can be applied to this case moving forward.”
Although police didn’t specify which processes they’re eyeing, sources say they could be considering vast databases amassed from at-home DNA kits to hunt for a match to JonBenet’s murderer!
Other famous mysteries have been cracked through so-called forensic genealogy — including exposing the Golden State Killer, a rapist and burglar who terrorized California in the ’70s and ’80s.
In that case, DNA from a 40-year-old crime scene led investigators to a distant relative of former cop Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. They later snatched a tissue from DeAngelo’s trash at his Sacramento home and discovered his DNA linked him to 12 murders and 51 rapes!
DeAngelo, now 76, is rotting behind bars in California after pleading guilty in 2020 to 13 murders and other charges and being slapped with 12 life sentences!