2016/09/21

People September 19, 2016: Burke Ramsey Reveals Who He Thinks Killed Sister JonBenét

In the nearly 20 years since JonBenét Ramsey was killed, her brother, Burke, and their parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, have been on the receiving end of continued scrutiny – an "umbrella of suspicion," as it was once described.
While theories abound about who strangled the 6-year-old girl in December 1996 and left her body in the family's Boulder, Colorado, home, Burke is adamant on one point: The Ramseys were not involved.
"It blows my mind. What more evidence do you need that we didn't do it?" Burke, now 29, said Monday of his family's innocence, during the final installment of his three-part Dr. Phil interview, his first public sit-down since the crime.
Earlier in the special, Burke assured of a theoretical cover-up, "You won't find any evidence because that's not what happened."

Patsy, John and Burke – who was 9 at the time of the killing – were never charged in JonBenét's death and have always maintained their innocence.
The local prosecutor later declined to prosecute John and Patsy, following a grand jury proceeding against them, citing a lack of evidence.
Now, John and Burke are the family's only surviving members: Patsy died in 2006 from ovarian cancer. Two years later, then-District Attorney Mary Lacy wrote a letter to John saying that DNA evidence cleared the trio. (A decisive announcement some in law enforcement criticized as premature.) more