The new district attorney for Boulder County, Colorado, said he plans to take a fresh look at the investigation into the 1996 slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, which touched off a nationwide search for her killer.The DA's office assumed responsibility for the investigation in 2002. But District Attorney Stan Garnett, who was sworn into office last week, wants to decide during his first 30 days in office whether the case should be returned to Boulder police.
On Dec. 26, 1996, John Ramsey discovered the body of his 6-year-old daughter, JonBenet, in the basement of the family's Boulder home. The girl had been strangled and beaten. A ransom note was discovered on the stairs of the home, demanding $118,000. While John and Patsy Ramsey were suspected of some involvement in their daughter's death, they were never formally named as suspects, and a grand jury refused to indict them. Patsy Ramsey died in 2006 of ovarian cancer.
John Mark Karr, a one-time teacher and Georgia resident at the time, was arrested in Thailand and brought to Colorado. Authorities said Karr told a University of Colorado professor in e-mails that he was involved in JonBenet's death. He told reporters after his arrest that he was with the child when she died, although he called her death an accident and said he loved her. He was later cleared in her death.
Both JonBenet and Patsy Ramsey are buried in Murietta.
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