Boulder police are beginning a new round of questioning regarding the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, said Boulder Police Communication Coordinator Sarah Huntley.
Huntley said that police have begun further questioning individuals concerning the 1996 murder of then six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey based on the recommendations of an advisory committee, but will not be releasing any details about those being questioned.
“We are attempting to talk to people,” she said. “The police department is not going to release details about who they are and are not going to interview.”
Since Ramsey’s murder in 1996, the case has been alternately investigated by the Boulder Police Department and the Boulder District Attorney’s Office, Huntley said.
It was the mutual decision of Boulder District Attorney Stanley Garnett, and Boulder police, to choose to allow all additional questioning and investigations to be lead by Boulder police, Huntley said.
Huntley said that this decision lead to the formation of an advisory committee, who then created a list of individuals for further questioning.
“Last year in 2009, the police department put together an advisory task force to take a look at this case,” she said. “They brought in people from our agency and other agencies.”
The committee has since passed the list onto police who are continuing their investigations.
“That task force came up with a list of individuals that would be good to interview and the police department is making its way down that list,” Huntley said.
In a statement to be released Monday, Boulder’s Chief of Police Mark Beckner, explains why Boulder police are modifying their investigation based on the suggestions of the committee.
“We continue to work the Ramsey case and have tailored our investigation based on recommendations from our 2009 advisory committee,” Beckner said. “This has included additional contacts and interviews with those who may have information pertinent to the case.”
Huntley said that further questioning of individuals thought to be involved in cold cases might be the result of many different factors.
“Basically with a cold case you go back to day one and try to re-investigate the case,” Huntley said. “Sometimes it is a matter of the police having missed something, or someone recollecting something or there is evidence now that you scientifically could not have tested back then.”
Additional questioning is often routine for cold cases, but the public’s curiosity about this particular case may be the cause of the attention surrounding the new investigations, Huntley said.
“I think it’s because it’s the JonBenet case that it’s attracting so much attention,” she said. “But in a cold case that’s relatively expected because people have different recollections from the original investigation.”
Contact CU Independent Breaking News Editor Sarah Simmons at Sarah.e.simmons@colorado.edu.
5 comments
Sany Stranger killed JonBenet.
Sandy Stranger killed JonBenet.
Only if Sandy Stranger is code for Patsy Ramsey
I believe that someone close to the Ramsey home at the time of little Jon bebet’s murder is the one who did it. Like a enighbor or someone that may have either worked for them or was somehow directly exposed to the family breifly. Obviously it wasn’t her mom or dad or brother that did this, it was a man who has a sick obsession with kids. It could eve have been someone linked to her modeling career. You just never know in this world these days. I think they will catch the person responsible but I am willing to bet it’s someone living right under thier noses like BTK did for so many years. A chameleon
Why does everyone still think it is Patsy? THEY have DNA and they said it is a white mail.