The DA sent the Ramseys a letter of apology in 2008, declaring the family was "completely cleared" by the DNA results. In 2003, trace DNA that was taken from the victim's clothes was found to belong to an unknown male each of the family's DNA had been excluded from this match. In 2002, the DA's successor took over investigation of the case from the police and primarily pursued the theory that an intruder had committed the killing.
However, the DA determined that there was insufficient evidence to pursue a successful indictment. the crime of murder in the first degree and child abuse resulting in death". John and Patsy were also accused of hindering the prosecution of an unidentified person who had "committed . In October 2013, unsealed court documents revealed that a 1999 grand jury had recommended filing charges against the Ramseys for permitting the child to be in a threatening situation. JonBenét's parents gave several televised interviews but resisted police questioning except on their own terms. In 1998, the police and district attorney (DA) both said that JonBenét's brother Burke, who was nine years old at the time of her death, was not a suspect. The Boulder police initially suspected that the ransom note had been written by Patsy, and that the note and appearance of JonBenét's body had been staged by her parents in order to cover up the murder. The crime is still unsolved and remains an open investigation with the Boulder Police Department.
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The case generated nationwide public and media interest, in part because her mother Patsy Ramsey (herself a former beauty queen) had entered JonBenét into a series of child beauty pageants. The autopsy report stated that JonBenét's official cause of death was " asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma". She had sustained a broken skull from a blow to the head and had been strangled a garrote was found tied around her neck. Her father, John, found the girl's body in the basement of their house about seven hours after she had been reported missing. A long handwritten ransom note was found in the home. JonBenét Patricia Ramsey (Aug– December 26, 1996) was an American child beauty queen who was killed at the age of six in her family's home in Boulder, Colorado.
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