“When he got sick with cancer … he knew that his time was limited and so, during that time, he just talked to others about not letting this case die,” said Cindy Marra, Smit’s daughter. In the aftermath of their daughter’s murder, John Ramsey went on to lose his job and claims he spent millions of dollars on private investigators, lawyers and security. “There’s no reason at all for the Ramseys to use a stun gun and the Ramseys don’t have a stun gun,” Smit recorded himself saying at the time. “We work on this daily. “The big question is could you have gotten through this window -- this small window -- without disturbing this cobweb,” Garrett said. “First of all, we didn’t know whether the kidnapper was going to call that day because the note said, ‘I will call you tomorrow. John Ramsey later found JonBenét in the basement, a part of the home that police had neglected to search. Police arrived shortly after the 911 call and began investigating the scene for clues about the kidnapper. MORE: Video: JonBenet Ramsey Case: Who Was Patsy Ramsey? “In that particular movie, a ‘fat cat’ industrialist, his son was kidnapped. Please don’t let it die,’” she said. Copyright © 2021 ABC News Internet Ventures. Then, the next day, her parents appeared on CNN for an interview in which they pleaded for the public to help them find their daughter’s killer. Smit was already a well-known figure as a police detective before he worked on JonBenet's murder investigation. Jessa concurs, pointing out that the goal with their podcast and research is to finally offer clarity for those who continue to grieve. After JonBenét’s parents’ first formal interrogation in the spring of 1997, four months after her death, it would take nearly two years for them to sit down with the police for another interrogation. A mystery man told him "JonBenét was accidentally killed by a high class pedophile ring that all the famous politicians, Hollywood stars and Royal families belong. But even as dozens of people visited him each day to pay their respects at the hospital, and later in hospice, he never stopped talking about JonBenét’s case, according to his other daughter, Dawn Miller. While JonBenét’s half-brother, John Andrew Ramsey, said his father has remarried and is focusing on life, he also said their fight for justice on behalf of his half-sister is not over. There were some reasons to suspect this. “The police are thinking, we gotta talk to those parents and we gotta talk to them right now before they start getting their story straight together.”, John Ramsey said they had asked police to meet them at their home because Patsy Ramsey was sick with grief in bed, “barely able to move.”, “We were perfectly willing and anxious to speak with the police to find the killer,” he told Walters in 2000. People in the community who tell the police, ‘Give them room. … They didn’t do it.”. When reached for comment, the Boulder Police Department said there is still an active, ongoing investigation into JonBenét’s murder; however, the department has never publicly commented on its handling of the case. Smit was called out of retirement to help the investigation three months after JonBenét was found dead in the basement of her parent’s Boulder, Colorado, home on the morning of Dec. 26, 1996. When Hunter called for a grand jury to assess the evidence in 1998, two years after JonBenét was killed, they listened to Smit’s intruder theory. John Anderson, former sheriff of the El Paso County Sheriff's Office in Texas, talks about his friend Lou Smit, the legendary detective who died before he could solve 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey's case. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? JonBenét was buried in Marietta, Georgia, the Ramseys’ hometown, on Dec. 31, 1996. Bill McReynolds, a man who dressed up as Santa Claus for Christmas parties at the Ramseys’ home for three years, was also investigated but ultimately cleared when his DNA did not match that found by investigators. Her father, John, found the girl's body in the basement of their house about seven hours after she had been reported missing. She is now tasked along with other members of Smit’s family with solving his last case as part of his dying wish -- that of 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey. By 2008, new DNA testing technology had been developed, called touch DNA, which allowed forensic experts to test the dead skin cells left behind on objects at crime scenes. With the case now in the public’s view, police sought to question JonBenét’s parents. Two granddaughters of the longtime detective in the JonBenét Ramsey case are keeping his legacy alive and doing what they can to honor the slain girl’s memory as well. For the first time, viewers will be able to hear the previously unreleased audio diaries of Lou Smit, famed Colorado Springs homicide detective who was coaxed from retirement to try and bring some clarity to the chaos surrounding this case. 2016. Maxwell behind JonBenét Colorado detective had received a mysterious telephone call about JonBenét murder case. “And he asked me to write down a name, and I did. Now, out of that top 20, what our team has been doing is focusing on collecting DNA and testing DNA,” Anderson said. Arndt confirmed to him that the child had died. “The police … are faced with lawyers and wealthy friends. “I think it’s that devotion, that respect, that love for Lou, [that] is what keeps our team moving forward.”. After 13 years, Smit still believed that an unidentified intruder was responsible for JonBenet’s murder. “What we all share in common is that commitment to fulfill Lou’s dying wish that this case doesn’t die with him,” said John Anderson, a friend of Smit’s and former sheriff of El Paso County in Texas. Detective: JonBenet's father did it ( 0 ) NEW YORK, Sept. 13 -- One of the Colorado detectives initially assigned to the JonBenet Ramsey case … “But [the police] are trying to say Patsy did it. In a 911 call just before 6 a.m., her mother Patsy Ramsey was inconsolable as she told the dispatcher that her daughter was missing and that she’d found a ransom note at the bottom of her stairs. … Their actions before, during and after [JonBenét’s death] are all consistent with innocent people. “We went through the people of interest ... and came up with our top 20. Investigators cleared the Ramsey family as suspects. I kind of joked with her, saying that, ‘If somebody did get in that house, it must’ve been Santa Claus coming down the chimney.’”. JonBenét’s murder came on the heels of the O.J. “He just said, ‘I want somebody to continue this case. Smit’s daughter, Cindy Marra, said the interviews “firmed up his belief that the Ramseys had nothing to do” with JonBenét’s murder. Cold case investigator Lou Smit talks about the case of confessed serial killer Robert Charles Browne at the El Paso County Sheriff's Department in Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug. 4, 2006. “How many people knew that? He said that this evidence “was not something that was made public for quite a long time.” An analysis found that it didn’t match anyone in the Ramsey family. There were some friends of Patsy’s that were helping her wipe up the kitchen. He believed the answer to the identity of JonBenét’s killer lay in the DNA found in her underwear and underneath her fingernails. I tried to untie the cord that was around her arms and I couldn’t get the knot untied.”. There could’ve been fingerprints there.”. “It was really important to him.”. Police didn’t believe it was possible to fit through the window, and then Smit showed them it was by going through it himself. Watch the full story on "20/20" Friday at 9 p.m. I thought it would be a slam dunk, and I even remember talking to my daughter. “She was lying on a white blanket. There’s a lot of the same verbiage in this note as was in even the note that was written in that particular movie,” Smit said in the recordings. Authorities ultimately cleared Oliva as a suspect after they were unable to connect him to the crime scene. There’s a group of dedicated volunteers that work on this daily.”, “I think it’s really important for people to understand that this case can be solved,” he went on to say. … I immediately knelt down over her, felt her cheek, took the tape off immediately off her mouth. Sep. 12, 2016. Arndt suggested that John Ramsey look around the house for any signs that his daughter’s belongings were out of place. JonBenét’s parents anxiously waited for the supposed kidnapper’s call with just one detective there: Linda Arndt. It was after this test that Lacy wrote a letter to John Ramsey stating that her office does not consider him, his wife Patsy Ramsey or anyone in their immediate family to be under suspicion for the death of JonBenét. In an interview with USA TODAY, JonBenét's father John Ramsey, who appears in the documentary along with Smit's daughter, son and others connected to the investigation, said he … Two granddaughters of the longtime detective in the JonBenét Ramsey case are keeping his legacy alive and doing what they can to honor the slain girl's memory as well. We don’t want them there.”. “I’m not saying parents don’t kill their kids … parents do kill their children,” Smit said in his tapes. The child beauty queen had died sometime during the previous night but wasn’t found until hours later. As the investigation continued under Smit, he became concerned that authorities had totally ruled out the possibility of an intruder killing Jon Benet, and therefore weren’t looking for evidence of the possibility, Marra said. A former detective on the famous cold case writes in a new book that a cobweb and a child's toy could hold the answers to the 1996 murder of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey. Multiple former investigators in the JonBenet Ramsey murder speak out about their theories on the case in a new two-hour special Dateline NBC: Who Killed JonBenét? Go retest.” He said she told him it was impossible for them to have “physical evidence” linking her to the crime. Investigators weren’t able to find anything incriminating during the Ramseys’ interrogations. Throughout both interrogations, JonBenét’s parents vehemently denied anyone in their family killed their daughter. Over 24 years later authorities are still trying to answer that question. Marra said that after his death, her family teamed up with some of Smit’s former homicide partners to keep investigating the case. JonBenét Ramsey was killed in her family's Colorado home in 1996. It also said that JonBenét’s parents would receive a call from the supposed kidnapper “tomorrow” between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. “It was awful,” John Ramsey told ABC News’ Barbara Walters in 2000. Television documentary, accessed on CBS On Demand, September 23. First detective to respond in JonBenet case resigns. However, with the Ramseys’ friends showing up for moral support, they also contaminated the scene by moving about the house. “I thought this was [going to] be a fairly easy case. MORE: Forensic psychiatrist who consulted on JonBenet Ramsey case killed outside his office, MORE: Ex-DA Opens Up About Why She Cleared the Ramsey Family of JonBenet's Murder. If we leverage the evidence, we follow the facts, we will find this killer.”, 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. We’re not interrogating possible suspects. 2016. The grand jury ended up accusing both John and Patsy Ramsey of “unlawfully, knowingly, recklessly and feloniously permitting a child to be unreasonably placed in a situation which posed a threat of injury to the child’s life or health” as well as “rendering assistance to a person, with intent to hinder, delay or prevent the discovery, detention, apprehension, prosecution, convictions and punishment of such person for the commission of a crime.”. Video: JonBenet Ramsey's half brother speaks out on her 1996 murder in new TV special praising investigator who believed pageant queen's parents were innocent - and declares DNA … Marra believes her daughters, Smit’s granddaughters, will push forward his dying wish even if they’re unable to. The three-page ransom note, for example, was written on Patsy Ramsey’s notepad with a pen that had come from the house. JonBenét Patricia Ramsey (August 6, 1990 – December 25, 1996) was an American child beauty queen who was killed at the age of six in her family's home in Boulder, Colorado.A lengthy handwritten ransom note was found in the home. CA nurses, doctors, and lawmakers question move to open up. The Colorado detective who died from cancer in 2010 had investigated over 200 cases over the course of his career and every one of them had led to a conviction, according to his granddaughter Jessa van der Woerd. “My daughters … will continue on with this case when we end up being too old to do it,” said Marra. Two granddaughters of the longtime detective in the JonBenét Ramsey case are keeping his legacy alive and doing what they can to honor the slain girl's memory as well. But as Smit began to investigate the case, he started to believe that police should actually be looking at a possible intruder. He was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2010. 5 people, including pregnant woman, fatally shot in Indianapolis, Capitol riot latest: Man accused of stealing documents from McConnell's desk charged, Biden's COVID relief package presents 1st test of his deal-making skills. Legendary detective Lou Smit created an eight-hour video presentation that includes his notes on the JonBenet Ramsey murder case, notes on potential suspects and the evidence he collected. “We are just trying to eliminate people from that list and we just figure, if we keep at it, hopefully, we’ll finally whittle it down to one person remaining on that list,” said Marra. Police had also found a shoe print from a Hi-Tec brand boot near JonBenét’s body -- no one in the family-owned shoes from this brand -- as well as two marks on her face and back, which he deduced had been made by a stun gun. “The Ramsey’s said, ‘We don’t trust the police. JonBenet Ramsey’s bedroom walls and Christmas presents were ‘smeared in feces by disturbed brother Burke’—after new claims emerged he killed the child beauty queen. “The police did a terrible, terrible job securing that scene … and if you don’t secure the scene, you don’t get good evidence,” said Diane Dimond, an investigative reporter who covered the case. “We had a higher priority at that point and that was to bury our daughter.”. But he was running out of time. Jonathan Webb, one of the grand jurors, told “20/20” that Smit’s intruder theory didn’t make sense. An outsider — Lou Smith, Homicide Detective on the JonBenét case believes it may have simply been a kidnapping gone wrong; “I believe that he was going to take her out of house. I found my daughter,” John Ramsey told Walters in 2000. But although the grand jury may have believed one of the parents was culpable and the other helped, they couldn't say who did what, and Hunter ultimately announced that they did not have sufficient evidence to file charges against the parents. “I knew instantly what I found. The team referred to the database Smit had created to begin narrowing down suspects. We’re just not going to do it.”. What’s the matter with you,’” said Dimond. Outdoor dining, salon reopen for business in Contra Costa Co. 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Cheer, Louise, and Khaleda Rahman. “We were outraged. “I mean, we’re suffering from having lost our child … and then, for someone to accuse you, it’s just, you can’t believe that would happen,” she told CNN in January 1997. “If it’s not a stun gun, what is it? But when 10 a.m. passed and there still wasn’t a call, Arndt said “there was no acknowledgment” from either of JonBenét’s parents that “the deadline imposed by the author of the ransom note [had] come and gone.”. JonBenet Ramsey. Cindy Mara is one of the daughters of Lou Smit, who investigated JonBenet Ramsey's case and whose dying wish was for his family and friends to find her killer. JonBenét's cause of death was determined … Nearly 25 years after JonBenét Ramsey's infamous and still unsolved death, the case of the 6-year-old pageant queen is back in the news again. Simson trial and quickly gained traction with news outlets around the world. A former Boulder, Colo., police detective who spent almost two years investigating the killing of JonBenet Ramsey says in a new book that he and other investigators concluded that the 6 … “I thought there was something drastically wrong and that there was a gross injustice in this case,” he said in the tapes. In JonBenet, the most authoritative and comprehensive study of the Ramsey murder, a former lead Boulder Police detective, Steve Thomas, explores the case in vivid and fascinating detail-pointing the way toward an analysis of the evidence some deem too shocking to consider. Marra said that before his death, while he was still in the hospital, he told her that he wanted someone to keep investigating the case. As the first detective to arrive at the Ramsey house on Dec. 26, 1996, Linda Arndt endured stinging criticism and ridicule because of what she did and didn’t do once she arrived on the scene. Anderson said that the team narrowing down Smit’s list met with Boulder authorities in September 2020 to present the list of their top 20 suspects in the case. The blanket was wrapped around her. Three months after JonBenét’s death, he brought Smit into the fold. Exclusive clip: Discovery+ re-examines JonBenet Ramsey case with new audio from detective JonBenet Ramsey's death in 1996 still baffles investigators. Mary Lacy, the district attorney of Boulder at the time, decided to use this new test on JonBenét’s pajama leggings and the results came back positive for at least one unknown male’s DNA, possibly even two. Episode 10 of 'The Killing of JonBenet Ramsey: The Final Suspects' reveals two other persons of interest on late detective Lou Smit's list — listen “I think the answer to that is ‘maybe.’ … But the other important point is how soon was this picture taken after JonBenét was killed because spiders can replicate webs very fast.”. We were shocked,” added John Ramsey. John Ramsey’s son, JonBenét’s half-brother John Andrew Ramsey, said that the family gave blood and fingerprints to the police as part of their investigation. “It seemed as though the parents were probably involved,” Smit said in video diaries that he began recording while investigating the case. He quickly began reviewing the evidence and finding potential leads that the police and public had overlooked or dismissed. For someone to get through a small window like that and not disturb the cobwebs “would be remarkable,” he said. Her hands were tied above her head. Storm timeline: Here's when rains, winds arrive to Bay Area, Here's what's reopening in every Bay Area county this week. Dawn Miller is one of the daughters of Lou Smit, who investigated JonBenet Ramsey's case and whose dying wish was for his family and friends to find her killer. “It would be highly improper and unethical for me to stay when I so strongly believe this.”. They’re grieving. “There were months and months of negotiations, things about whether they could be videotaped, what are the questions going to be … should the Boulder police be a part of it,” said Carol McKinley, an investigative journalist. ET on ABC. But speaking to JonBenét’s parents, the main suspects in the case at that point, as part of a formal interrogation at the police station was challenging. “We’re not investigators. The day after Christmas — Dec. 26, 1996 — JonBenét Ramsey was found murdered in the basement of her family’s Colorado home. Patsy Ramsey died of ovarian cancer in 2006 and was buried next to JonBenét in Georgia, JonBenét’s half-brother, John Andrew Ramsey, said. I’m gonna guess not a lot of people,” Garrett said. As he worked his way up through the ranks to detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department, Smit had numerous notable cases in his roster. 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