Investigators looking at 'new persons of interest' in JonBenét Ramsey murder case after finishing up analyzing

Investigators looking at 'new persons of interest' in JonBenét Ramsey murder case after finishing up analyzing nearly 1,000 DNA samples and speaking to more than 1,000 people across 19 states

JonBenét Ramsey was murdered in on December 26, 1996. The girl was bludgeoned and strangled and no one has ever been charged for her murder
Now, there are 'several' new people on the police's radar, sources claim

By Claudia Aoraha, Senior Reporter For Dailymail.Com

estigators are believed to be looking into new people of interest in the murder JonBenét Ramsey after analyzing nearly 1,000 DNA samples.

The six-year-old beauty pageant contestant was murdered on December 26, 1996, in her Boulder, Colorado home. The girl was bludgeoned and strangled - and several hours later, her mother called 911 to say her daughter was missing and a ransom note had been left behind. She was found after a search in the basement of the family's home.

Her death was ruled a homicide, but nobody was ever charged for her killing.

A police source told the Messenger: 'There are several people on the radar.

'New persons of interest. And we are seeing if any of them are the key to solving this case. Time will tell if we get the answers we need. This is a marathon, not a sprint.

'Suspects and witnesses can come from a variety of places. It's not just the DNA, it's what happens when you investigate a very difficult case.

'There are new people to look at, to hopefully figure out who killed JonBenét.'

ne of the new people of interest have been named. When contacted by MailOnline.com, Boulder police referred to previous case updates.

On the day after Christmas in 1996, JonBenét was reported missing and then found dead in the basement of her family home in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Boulder, Colorado.

The coroner determined that the pageant girl's cause of death was 'asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma,' meaning she had been choked and beaten to death. A garrote was found around her neck.

as no clear-cut evidence of rape, but police did not rule out sexual assault.

Unmatched DNA was found under the child's fingernails and on her clothes. A confusing ransom note demanding $118,000 was also found in the family's home.


became extremely interested in the murder of the pretty little girl, and many glammed-up pictures were blasted across the airwaves because of her time in child pageants

'Our investigation with federal, state and local partners has never stopped. That includes new ways to use DNA technology.

'We’ve always used state of the art technology as it has been at the forefront of this investigation.

'Every time the DNA technology changed, we worked to make sure the evidence could be tested.

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