The Search for Jon Benet's Killer
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[music] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] She is forever frozen in time. John Bonet Ramsey, six-years-old dress for a beauty pageant. And we still don't know who killed her. The day after Christmas in 1996, John Bonet 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. 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 mint. 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. Erin Moriarty heads up our six-month investigation. I don't think the Ramses did it,
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Is there new hope to solve the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey? Her father says there’s a way. Erin Moriarty reports.