DNA evidence in JonBenet Ramsey murder did NOT match family members but cops continued to float idea that her parents were ‘under suspicion’, new documents reveal
Despite police trying to project that child murder victim JonBenet Ramsey’s killing left her parents ‘under suspicion,’ new documents have revealed that the DNA evidence did not match her family members.
The revelation comes from a new book by former Texas sheriff and now author John W. Anderson, Lou and JonBenet: A Legendary Lawman’s Quest to Solve a Child Beauty Queen’s Murder.
Anderson interviews Colorado investigator Lou Smit, who worked the case until his 2010 death.
Smit argues that evidence recovered under the little girl’s fingernails and clothes did not match any family members or anyone close to the case.
Despite that, Smit says authorities continued to put parents Patsy Ramsey and John Bennett Ramsey were put under ‘an umbrella of suspicion’ that led many to suspect them in the case, according to Fox News.
The book is set to be published February 28.
This is a developing story.
The body of JonBenet Ramsey (pictured) was found bludgeoned and strangled in her basement hours after she was reported missing on December 26, 1996
John and Patsy Ramsey, the parents of JonBenet Ramsey, meet with a small selected group of the local Colorado media after four months of silence in Boulder, Colorado on May 1, 1997
