Where are JonBenét Ramsey's family now ahead of new Netflix film about case
In December 1996, six-year-old pageant queen JonBenèt Ramsey was killed, and almost 30 years after her death her killer has still not been found.
The case is now being revisited in a new Netflix series, with Melissa McCarthy playing JonBenèt's mum Patsy, who was questioned by investigators along with JonBenèt's dad John Ramsey, her half-brother John Andrew, and her brother Burke Ramsey.
Three years after her death, in 1999, a grand jury voted to indict Patsy and John Ramsey on charges of child abuse which resulted in death, as well as being accessories to a crime, however they would later be cleared of wrongdoing.
Netflix has previously looked at the case in a docuseries called Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey back in 2024, but the new series will instead be a drama called The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey.
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With the drama series set for release in December, what happened to JonBenèt's family after her tragic death?
The Ramsey family moved away from their home after JonBenèt's death, relocating to Atlanta in the wake of the tragedy.
There Patsy Ramsey was treated for ovarian cancer, a condition which she had previously had several years ealier.
Sadly, Patsy would not live to see her exoneration, dying in 2006, two years before she and her husband's names were cleared of any wrongdoing related to the tragic death of their daughter.
John Ramsey remarried in 2011, tying the knot with fashion designer Jan Rousseuax, and since 2016 the pair have divided their time between Las Vegas and Michigan.
In an interview with PEOPLE in 2024, he did not appear to hold out much hope that his daughter's killer would ever be found without the police needing extra support.
“If it stays in the hands of the Boulder Police, it will not be solved, period. If they accept help, all the help that's out there, that's available and offered, it will be solved. Yes, I believe it will be solved."
He added: “We're begging the police to engage. There are cutting-edge DNA labs that want to help and who believe they can move the case forward.”
JonBenét's elder half-brother John Andrew Ramsey has also been critical of how the Boulder Police Department handled the case, sharing John Ramsey's hope that DNA could help to solve the case.
Speaking to Westword in 2023, he said: "An easy way to improve the odds [of catching JonBenét's killer] is to identify and investigate any child sex offenders living in Boulder in 1996.
"To further narrow the field, we are looking for a very rare breed of pedophile. A sadistic pedophile. A creature so craven they gain pleasure by torturing and quite often killing young children."
Meanwhile, Burke spoke publicly about the murder in 2016 on Dr. Phil, where he told Dr. Phil McGraw that his parents always maintained their innocence, and that he believes that he believes his sister was killed by a 'pedophile from the pageant circuit'.
The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey is scheduled to be released on Netflix on 10 December.
Topics: US News, Netflix, True Crime
Kit Roberts