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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
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Tonight is a breakthrough on the horizon in one of the country's most high-profile unsolved mysteries.
JonBenet Ramsey, the name we all know, the case that shook America that Christmas nearly 30 years ago. Could there finally be a major turn in the case? 2020 begins right now. I just kept saying, no, no, ask God to raise her.
I wanna be a, I wanna be a... JonBenet Ramsey, the story you can't forget.
The case you think you know. With all that attention, all that scrutiny, why hasn't this crime been solved? One simple reason, the police have refused help that was offered, and it could have helped. But now, is the new documentary series changing the picture?
Go back to the damn drawing board.
So early on, they locked into this crazy idea that the parents were responsible. They get tunnel vision.
With new DNA technology, is a solution closer than ever? We think the crime can be solved.
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Chapter 2: How did the JonBenet case impact America?
This was the first murder in Boulder that year, and it was December 26. So they don't have a lot of murders, particularly where a little girl is tortured to death.
John Ramsey worked with award-winning documentarian Joe Berlinger, who says he wanted to shed new light on what he calls one of the most brutalized families in American history.
Obviously, he wasn't legally wrongfully convicted, but he was wrongfully convicted, and his wife Patsy, the family, were wrongfully convicted in the court of public opinion.
You still feel like it's a cloud over your family name? Yeah. Because there are still people in the country who still believe that your wife was responsible.
No doubt. And we could have the killer confessed, arrested, in prison, and there'd still be 5 to 10 percent of the population that, yeah, it was the father, or yeah, it was the mother.
The hit docuseries has sparked a new generation of interest on social media.
OK, one of my girlfriends and I have a new JonBenet theory, and I want to float it. I want to float it. I just finished the JonBenet Ramsey new documentary on Netflix, and holy .
I need to know what happened to JonBenet Ramsey.
With the wave of renewed scrutiny, the Boulder Police Department issued a video statement last month.
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Chapter 3: What new evidence is there in the JonBenet case?
Chapter 4: Why is DNA technology crucial for solving the case?
It was a crime scene, and it was getting contaminated. The note was being passed around and reviewed by all of their friends.
Of all of the evidence left behind, that ransom note is the most baffling. Number one, it is too damn long. A ransom note is not that long. A ransom note says, I have your child. I want a million dollars. I'll call you later.
The note was three pages and written in longhand.
That ransom note was the Warren piece of ransom notes. It begins, Mr. Ramsey, listen carefully.
You will withdraw $118,000 from your account. $100,000 will be in $100 bills and the remaining $18,000 in $20 bills.
You think about this number and how is it relevant, and it's relevant because John Ramsey got a bonus from his company for $118,000. How many people knew that? I'm going to guess not a lot of people.
This footage of Barbara Walters' interview with the Ramseys in 2000 has never aired. Until now.
The ransom note asked for an odd figure, $118,000. That was a bonus that you had received.
Well, that was one of the theories that I came up with, that it was close to the net amount I'd received that year as a bonus. 118 means something to the killer. We know that. We believe that. Whether it's tied to my bonus or something only the killer knows, we don't know.
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