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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

JonBenét Ramsey: New DNA Evidence Could Finally Solve 29-Year Mystery — Why Are Some People Saying "Let It Go"?

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Nearly 29 years after six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was found murdered in her family's Boulder, Colorado basement, Boulder Police have announced significant movement in the case. Chief Stephen Redfearn confirmed that investigators have collected new evidence, retested existing evidence with modern DNA technology, and conducted new interviews over the past year. Dozens of items are currently being tested at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation — including evidence from the basement crime scene that was never tested before.

At CrimeCon 2025, the Ramsey family's former attorney Hal Haddon pointed to the garrote used to strangle JonBenét as potentially critical, noting that DNA analysis of the knots could be "promising" since someone had to tie them. John Andrew Ramsey, JonBenét's half-brother, says it's "not if but when" the case gets solved.

But here's what's strange: as we get closer to potential answers, some people are suddenly saying "let it rest" or "let it go." After 29 years of obsession with this case, why would anyone not want it solved? The psychology is fascinating — and disturbing. Whether you believe the family was involved or an intruder did it, whoever actually committed this crime benefits from the ambiguity continuing forever. The ransom note — written on a pad from inside the home, with a pen from inside the home, demanding the exact amount of John Ramsey's bonus — has never been explained. Patsy Ramsey was never fully excluded as its author. The 2008 "exoneration" of the family remains deeply contested by former investigators. We don't know who killed JonBenét. But someone does. And they're counting on us to stop asking.

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske.

0:02.8

Here now, Tony Bruske.

0:06.7

Nearly 29 years, that's how long Jean-Bunet Ramsey has been gone.

0:13.3

A six-year-old girl found murdered in the basement of her family's Boulder, Colorado home.

0:18.9

The day after Christmas in 1996,

0:24.9

beaten, strangled with a...

0:28.6

Grashton, sexually assaulted, allegedly,

0:31.5

left in a wine cellar.

0:34.0

While a three-page ransom note sat upstairs in the staircase demanding exactly $118,000 for her safe return, a very questionable number.

0:45.2

And now, after all this time, after the tabloid frenzy, the documentaries, the podcast, the theories, screamed across cable news and whispered in living rooms across America.

0:56.4

We may finally be on the verge of an answer.

1:00.9

But do you want to hear that answer?

1:04.1

Do you want the real information?

1:07.7

Can you handle the truth?

1:11.6

I'm not going to quote the movie.

1:15.2

I guess that's the question.

1:18.1

Does the public really want the truth?

1:21.8

Because I've done a couple shorts on this this week.

1:25.0

And interesting pushback on this of let it go. No one will ever know. Just let it be.

1:31.9

I'm not like pulling this out of the ether. The Boulder police had a press conference the other

1:38.8

day talking about this case specifically. So that's where it comes from.

1:51.6

But it's really interesting because people, they dig in, and they have dug in for the last 30 years, and what they think, what they believe took place in this case.

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