BOULDER, Colo. — The Colorado Cold Case Review Team has completed its analysis of the JonBenét Ramsey case, the Boulder Police Department announced on Thursday.
On Dec. 26, it marked 27 years since the day the body of JonBenét Patricia Ramsey, just 6 years old, was found in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder. The young beauty pageant contestant had been bludgeoned and strangled. To date, nobody has been convicted of the crime, but theories have circulated for decades.
The Boulder Police Department stated its detectives, along with the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office, are in the process of reviewing and prioritizing the review team’s recommendations. The police department said the recommendations will not be made public “to preserve the integrity of the investigation.”
Boulder police have worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office, Colorado’s Department of Public Safety, Colorado’s Bureau of Investigation, and several private DNA laboratories in this case.
Authorities said the amount of DNA evidence that was collected at the crime scene is small and could be completely consumed by testing. However, in its update, the police department said Thursday that detectives are “actively taking steps to prepare the evidence for testing when possible.”
The Colorado Cold Case Review Team digitized all evidence in the case and created a searchable database that includes 21,000 tips, more than 1,000 interviews and samples from more than 200 people, including handwriting, DNA, fingerprints and shoeprints. In all, the case file contains nearly 2,500 pieces of evidence and nearly 40,000 reports, according to Boulder police.
Anybody with information on this case is asked to call the tip line at 303-441-1974, email [email protected] or, to remain anonymous, call Northern Colorado Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.