Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious.

It is the holiday season, hard to tell, right? I always do this. Well, at least I try.

They die a lot. Sometimes I forget to water them. But I've been keeping these alive. A little

Ponsetas behind me. And obviously, it's supposed to be one of the happiest times of the year.

It is for me.

I look forward to Christmas and the holidays all year.

I love it.

I love Thanksgiving, too, but I really love Christmas.

And I think for a lot of people, it's a lot of nostalgia, right?

You remember yourself in Jammies opening presents and

having family time and all the rest, right? But for those of us who are in the true crime

community and for one family in Colorado, the holiday season can be a very, very dark time because

it is a grim anniversary. This month marks 29 years since six-year-old

John Bonae Ramsey was found murdered inside her family's home in Boulder, Colorado.

That means nearly three decades of questions, three decades of investigative missteps,

and three decades of one of the most haunting unsolved cases in American history.

John Meney was killed the day after Christmas, 1996.

Strangled, skull fractured.

Her body left in the basement of her own home.

She'd been sexually assaulted.

She was six.

And despite some brief moments of hope over all these years, no one has ever been charged in this crime. But there may be

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