New DNA Sample In JonBenét Ramsey Case Targets Potential Killer

Almost 25 years after the homicide of magnificence queen JonBenét Ramsey, Radar has discovered a brand new potential suspect has been recognized by investigators, and now a race to conduct high-tech DNA checks is underway to find out if the long-stalled chilly case can lastly be solved.  

The bombshell breakthrough is the primary glimmer of hope in handcuffing at the least one of many cold-blooded killers liable for the brutal strangulation and sexual assault of the lovable 6-year-old inside her ritzy Boulder, Colo. dwelling in Christmas 1996

The potential perp was recognized by Roscoe J. Clark, the founding father of the web group JonBenét Investigations and co-investigator Derek Brommerich, who traveled to Colorado and obtained the DNA pattern from a discarded cigarette after pursing and staking out the male suspect.

The DNA pattern and a full report on the potential suspect — who’s linked to a Ramsey neighbor — was handed over to Genesee County Underneath Sheriff’s Mike Angus in Flint, Mich. on Might seventh. Angus plans to go alongside the report back to the native FBI workplace. 

Radar is withholding the identification of the potential suspect to keep away from alerting the perp and to offer authorities a chance to collect their very own DNA proof.

Roscoe stated he plans to ship a licensed copy of his report and a DNA pattern and his report back to the Boulder Police Division, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Workplace, and District Legal professional Michael Dougherty. 

“This can give all the choices. In the event that they needed to follow-up, they may do very simply,” Clark informed Radar. “This could possibly be the breakthrough everybody has been ready for in the course of the previous 24 years and it’s primarily based on laborious proof and forensic science. I’m 100-percent optimistic we now have the proper suspect, and we will’t rule this particular person out.” 

Cops imagine the killer (s) broke into the house via a basement window, slipped into JonBenét’s bed room, and knocked her out with a stun gun. She was carried to the basement the place she was gagged with duct tape, sexually abused, and strangled with a garrote, and smashed within the head with a baseball bat. 

A 3-page ransom observe demanding $118,000 and signed “SBTC” was written on a authorized pad that was present in the home. 

The brand new potential suspect was linked to the homicide following an explosive 2018 Radar investigation that recognized Glenn Meyer – the now-dead drifter obsessive about JonBenét who secretly lived within the basement of a house throughout the road from the Ramsey’s. 

“I imagine my husband killed JonBenét, I knew he was able to it,” his ex-wife Charlotte Hey informed Radar in 2018.

The brave Indiana lady, who handed away at age 88 in August (2020), additionally revealed the sicko Meyer additionally constructed a shrine to the slain baby utilizing photos and newspaper clippings. What’s extra his handwriting matched the ransom observe!   

Meyer, who lived within the dwelling of JonBenét’s now-deceased aged babysitters, Joe and Betty Barnhill, additionally had {a photograph} of Navy Avenger plane in his basement condominium with “SBTC” lettering on it.” 

JonBenét’s half-brother John Andrew Ramsey stays assured the killer will finally be discovered. 

“We now have the killer’s DNA … in order that’s vastly essential and can finally resolve this crime,” John Andrew says in episode 5 of The Killing of JonBenét: The Last Suspects podcast. 

“There are extra gadgets that ought to be examined given as we speak’s new expertise for extra samples. After which … the arrival of utilizing family tree to determine a killer is vastly promising, and that expertise will solely get higher.”