This is one of America’s most famous cold-cases, and he believes it can be solved.
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger is directing the new three-part Netflix documentary, “Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey.”
The documentary, premiering on Monday, November 25, explores the famously tragic case of a 6-year-old beauty pageant star who was murdered and sexually assaulted. In my own home in 1996Even after twenty-eight years the culprit has not been caught.
“I think a lot of the material that’s been done in the past tries to have its cake and eat it too,” Berlinger told The Post, referring to several previous documentaries and TV specials about JonBenét Ramsey.
“Or worse, it comes to the wrong conclusion.”
The documentary details how the local Boulder, Colorado police department mishandled the case and how the subsequent media circus cast a cloud of suspicion over the Ramsey family nearly thirty years later.
In 2013, newly unsealed court papers revealed that JonBenét’s parents – mother Patsy, who died of cancer in 2006, and Father John, 80, who are interviewed onscreen in the documentary – were accused of being involved in his murder. The district attorney at the time, Alex Hunter, refused to sign the indictments and declined to prosecute, citing a lack of evidence.
“I am confident that the Ramsey family is innocent. And I’m also confident that this case can be solved if the Boulder Police Department finally does what it needs to do,” Berlinger said.
Berlinger, who also co-directed the “Paradise Lost” documentary that helped release west memphis three From jail – indicated that dna technology Today it has progressed. Therefore, he believes that ultimately solving the JonBenét Ramsey case is not a lost cause.
“Ultimately, there still seems to be a lack of institutional will to resolve the matter, because I believe there was a tremendous amount of wrongdoing to begin with,” he said.
“I don’t think there’s been a good comprehensive documentary series that has really analyzed this case that will hopefully put a little bit of pressure on the authorities to do the right thing.”
Berlinger said it was not difficult to get JonBenét’s father, John, to agree to be involved in the documentary.
“John Ramsey agreed to sit down with us, he didn’t ask to be paid, and he wasn’t paid – we don’t pay our subjects – and he didn’t ask for any editorial input. No question was off limits. To me, he’s an 80-year-old man who…wants to solve that case. It is absolutely unimaginable that the family had anything to do with this.”
Berlinger said he believes so Several “potential suspects” He was ruled out due to faulty DNA analysis at the time of the murder.
“I think all the suspects have to be put back on the table now, including Ramsey. And they’ll be the first to say, ‘Sure, put it back on the table, but let’s do the DNA testing.’ This is not testing by television. I don’t want to do to people what was done to the Ramseys,” he said.
“We want the proper authorities to re-investigate this case, and to have the DNA of potential suspects re-examined properly.”
Who did this?
Berlinger said, “Sadly, there are a lot of people in the world who are attracted to little girlsAnd can do terrible things with them. [An intruder] If you look at some of the basic facts of the case, this is a much more plausible scenario than family involvement.
