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tomorrow night 48 hours is featuring an in-depth conversation with the father of
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John Benet Ramsay the child beauty queen who was murdered at home in Boulder Colorado she would be 34 years old today
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the case though still unsolved 48 Hours correspondent Aaron morard has covered this story since 1999 and she spoke with
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John benet's father about his theory about what happened that night John Ramsey is asking the Boulder Colorado
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Police Department to do whatever it takes to bring the killer of his daughter to Justice a killer who he
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believes had entered their home while the family had Christmas dinner at a friend's house I think he was hiding I
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think he waited till we fell asleep and then murdered jamban the six-year-old was found bludgeoned and strangled in
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the basement of the family home on December 26th 1996 it was a media sensation a child
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beauty queen a strange handsome note for years suspicion fell on her parents who
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always insisted they had nothing to do with their daughter's death here is paty Ramsay being interrogated in
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1998 go back to the damn drawing board I Didn't Do It John Ramsey didn't do it and we didn't have a clue of anybody who
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did do it the couple was never charged paty Ramsey died of cancer in 2006 at the age of 49 9 and not much has changed
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in the investigation John do you believe this case could be solved yes I do if the
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police will take advantage of all the technology that's available to them Ramsey says there are seven items from
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the crime scene that still need to be tested including the garat used to strangle John Benet the suitcase found
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in the basement of the ramsy home and a rope found in a guest bedroom the Boulder Police Department insists that
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it is doing everything it can in November 2024 it released a statement which said the assertion that there is
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viable evidence and leads we are not pursuing to include DNA testing is completely false now 81 John Ramsey is
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remarried and determined to clear his family's name Mor already joins us now clear his
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family's name because people suspect well even after all these years um because that's what the police thought
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the Boulder Police looked at that almost solely from the very beginning believing
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that the parents were involved one of the reasons why we're doing this story is because there still are so many
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questions after 28 years and I think we can answer a lot of them but let me make
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a point that there is DNA in this case it is unidentified male DNA and it excludes every member of the Ramsey
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family I think that is the most important thing for people to realize yeah I think that's a very important
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Point i' I've been so fascinated by this case for years mainly because it was so
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horrific when it happened you just can't imagine somebody would could break into
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their house in this affluent neighborhood find this little girl's bedroom and then bury the have the body
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discovered inside the home but can I tell you real quickly about that house I've been in it I've been in that house
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on the outside doesn't look big inside it is and one of the times I was in there I went with my producer and I was
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in John benet's bedroom and he was in the parents bedroom and I was screaming at the top my voice you cannot hear
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anything wow and John Ramsey believes that you know they were out the night before and he believes that the person
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who killed his daughter had come into that home had time to write that Ransom note I mean I know there are a lot of
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questions out there but Aon The Ransom note that they were asking happened to be the same amount of money that John
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Ramsay was paid for the bonus that year that was such inside probably someone who knew him and it's interesting you
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know John Ramsey keeps hoping that there's a story about this about um being able to put it with genetic
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genealogy be able to put the DNA in do they use that testing well they want to um unfortunately according to John
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Ramsey the um the actually DNA is mixed with his daughter's blood so they can't get that full profile but I think with
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new testing they will eventually he's convinced DNA is going to solve I want somebody caught I want this case solved
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it's helps we'll see Aon Mor already thank you very much you can watch aon's report on 48 Hours the search for John
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benet's killer 48 hours tomorrow night 109 Central here on CBS and streaming on Paramount Plus