Suspect ID'd by DNA in JonBenet Ramsey Murder Case
Cleared by the local district attorney of any involvement in the murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey in 1996, her family now has one goal: to see her killer apprehended.
“We still don’t have our killer yet. That’s our final goal, and that’s the goal that we’re still striving toward, and we won’t stop until we get there,” Pam Paugh, the girl’s aunt, told The Early Show on CBS today, reports the Associated Press. The girl’s mother died of cancer in 2006.
The family was cleared—and a suspect was identified—by recent DNA testing of long underwear the girl was wearing on the night she died. Earlier testing had identified male DNA from an unrelated man in a drop of blood on JonBenet Ramsey’s underwear, and the “touch DNA” testing of the long underwear showed the same male DNA along the sides, where an assailant would have held it to pull it off.
Now that a suspect has been identified by a DNA profile, resolution of the case depends on whether he has been tested concerning another crime and included in a DNA database.
“This case is going to be solved one day by a random hit on the DNA in the database,” attorney L. Lin Wood, who represents the Ramsey family, told CBS Evening News, the AP reports.
