Is there new hope to solve the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey? Her father says there’s a way. Erin Moriarty reports. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What happened the day JonBenet was reported missing?
911 emergency. Police. What's going on there, ma'am? We have a kidnapping. All right, please. Explain to me what's going on, okay? There's a note left and our daughter's gone. A note was left and your daughter is gone? Yeah. How old is your daughter? Six years old. She's gone. Six years old.
She is forever frozen in time. JonBenet Ramsey, six years old, dressed for a beauty pageant. And we still don't know who killed her. The day after Christmas in 1996, JonBenet was reported missing with a rambling ransom note left at the scene. Several hours later, she was found dead in her own home. bludgeoned and strangled. It was a media sensation.
Suspicion fell on her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey. The couple was never charged, but early on there was a police theory that Patsy Ramsey may have killed her daughter in a fit of rage over bedwetting and then covered it up. Now in his 80s, John Ramsey is still trying to clear his and Patsy's names.
Chapter 2: What are the details surrounding JonBenet's death?
Finding the killer isn't going to change my life at this point, but it will change the lives of my children and my grandchildren. This cloud needs to be removed from our family's head and this chapter closed for their benefit. So there is an answer.
I'll have more from that interview later. But first, a time capsule. A look back at how 48 Hours covered this story in 2002.
If our DNA matched anything significant, they would have arrested us in a New York minute.
Take a look at this.
I did not kill my child.
48 Hours Investigates has obtained the police interrogation tapes of John and Patsy Ramsey, never made public until tonight.
I don't give a flying flip how scientific it is. Go back to the damn drawing board.
Aaron Moriarty heads up our six-month investigation. I don't think the Ramseys did it.
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Chapter 3: Why were John and Patsy Ramsey considered suspects?
Chapter 4: What evidence do police believe links the Ramseys to the crime?
I did not kill my child.
48 Hours Investigates has obtained the police interrogation tapes of John and Patsy Ramsey, never made public until tonight.
I don't give a flying flip how scientific it is. Go back to the damn drawing board.
Aaron Moriarty heads up our six-month investigation. I don't think the Ramseys did it.
And I think they ought to start looking for people that did.
48 Hours Investigates. Searching for a killer.
She was the spark plug of our family. Because of this zest that she had, she just kept things alive and hopping. It's not the same without her.
Why is it so hard for people to understand that we love this child with everything in our being? We would never touch a hair on the head of one of our children. I mean, it just is inconceivable to me.
Their faces are instantly recognizable. But John and Patsy Ramsey are famous in a way no one would want. Although they've never been publicly called suspects or charged with the 1996 death of their daughter, JonBenet, they are resigned to a painful reality.
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Chapter 5: What do the Ramseys say about the accusation?
Chapter 6: Has new evidence emerged in the JonBenet case?
Chapter 7: What is Lou Smith's perspective on the investigation?
Why is it so hard for people to understand that we love this child with everything in our being? We would never touch a hair on the head of one of our children. I mean, it just is inconceivable to me.
Their faces are instantly recognizable. But John and Patsy Ramsey are famous in a way no one would want. Although they've never been publicly called suspects or charged with the 1996 death of their daughter, JonBenet, they are resigned to a painful reality.
We could find the killer tomorrow. He could be arrested, convicted, and, you know, jailed. And there'd still be 20% of the population would think that we had something to do with it.
Did your daughter have a bedwetting incident that night? Did you get up? Did you get angry? And did you hurt her?
No, I did not.
What is your reaction when you know many people think that's what you did?
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Chapter 8: How has the public perception affected the Ramseys?
They are wrong. I don't know what else to say. How else do you say no except no? No means no.
Over the last several months, we have spent a great deal of time with the Ramseys, these favorite villains of the tabloids, and have seen them in a way few others have. On this day, just this past summer, John and Patsy Ramsey are moving.
Life has never been the same, and it has basically ruined us financially and emotionally and everything else. So we're scaling back. This is my wedding dress.
They are selling their million-dollar home in Atlanta and moving to a smaller townhouse just down the road. John Ramsey, once the head of a billion-dollar software company, hasn't worked for four years. while Patsy has been quite literally fighting for her life. This is my self-portrait.
Here's my broken heart and my tears. In a rare, unguarded moment. I thought I would paint during my cancer treatment, but I was just so sick I couldn't.
Without her makeup, without her wig, without even her eyebrows drawn in, you can clearly see the damage left by the return of her cancer.
How did you find out? I was back in February for my annual checkup.
Nine years ago, Patsy learned she had stage four ovarian cancer. She made what she hoped was a full recovery. But earlier this year, she again went through debilitating chemotherapy.
You lost your hair. Yes. It's growing back. My eyebrows are growing back. It all comes out, but you know what? That's very little thing to worry about.
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