If you were alive in 1996, chances are you heard about the JonBenet Ramsey case. After the 6-year-old pageant queen went missing and later turned up dead, it put all parents on edge. Could their child be next? It’s hard to believe that in December 2026, it will have been 30 years since her kidnapping and murder. To this day, no one has ever been arrested for the crime. There have been suspects over the years, but eventually, the trail always seems to go cold. But maybe things will finally turn a corner. Police recently shared that they had found possible new evidence in the case, and her father confirmed that the family had been notified.
“This past year, our detectives have conducted several new interviews as well as re-interviewed individuals based on tips we’ve received. We have also collected new evidence and tested and re-tested other pieces of evidence to generate new leads,” Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn said in a video shared to Facebook.
Redfearn noted that there is renewed hope for the case, thanks in part to the advancement of technology, especially related to DNA testing, USA Today reported.
Police did not give any details about who was interviewed and re-interviewed or what the new evidence includes.
“It is never too late for people with knowledge of this terrible crime to come forward, and I urge those responsible for this murder to contact us,” Redfearn said in the video. The Boulder Police Department asks that anyone with information contact [email protected] or the police tip line at 303-441-1974.
Another person who is hopeful about the new information is John Ramsey, father of JonBenet Ramsey. In an interview with Banfield, he confirmed that he had been in touch with the police chief about the new evidence found.
Ramsey admitted they “don’t know” much about the new evidence, but “have advocated that if certain evidence that was taken from the crime scene has never been sampled, that it ought to be the main one being the [unintelligible] that was used to strangle my daughter.”
He ultimately called the update “encouraging,” before going on to praise the Colorado police chief for his handling of the case.
“I’m impressed with him. I think he’s sincere and honest, and so I’m encouraged, and you know, we’ve advocated,” he said in the interview.
Ramsey confirmed his lack of knowledge about the alleged new evidence, saying that it’s “one of the questions” he’ll ask. He added that “they’ve been fairly quiet about what they’re doing,” referring to Boulder police.
He also shared that there were some “encouraging words” if you were to “read between the lines” of the latest report.
“I’m more optimistic than I’ve been in a long time, certainly with new leadership,” Ramsey shared. “These people that were in that police department had never investigated a murder. They decided on day one that we were guilty, literally day one, and that became the conclusion that they tried to fit the evidence to. And of course, they ran into problems because they couldn’t fit the evidence.”
After years of investigations, Ramsey, his wife, Patsy, and their son Burke were cleared as suspects in 2008, ABC News reported. Patsy Ramsey died in 2006.
