Hey, everyone. I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious. If you can believe it,

it's been nearly 30 years, 29 to be exact. That is how long the John Bonae Ramsey case

has haunted this country, a six-year-old little girl who performed in little mini beauty pageants, murdered in her own home, Christmas

night, 1996. She was strangled with someone who was using a garot. Her skull was fractured and a ransom

note was left behind that has baffled investigators ever since.

It's the case that should have been solved, but it wasn't.

John Bonaise's father, John Ramsey, has lived this nightmare since day one.

They targeted him and his wife Patsy, and they put them under something called an umbrella of suspicion

for years and years and years. Basically, alluding to the fact that it's them, we just need to

prove it. The headlines were obscene. You could not go to the grocery store without seeing

some tabloid pointing to these two

as the murderers. Life had to be hell. And I say had to be hell because years and years later,

they walked it all back. They took that umbrella of suspicion away. They cleared the Ramses and said, we're sorry.

They were not the killers.

They cleared them, but not before Patsy had already died of cancer.

So Patsy died under an umbrella of suspicion as a potential murderer of her own six-year-old girl.

And John had to deal with that.

John is still demanding answers.

He wants the murder of his little girl solved.

And can you blame him even three decades later?

He has gone through the gamut, right?

He's A to Z. They've thrown everything at him. He wants that salt. He's not walking away saying I want nothing to do with this anymore. I just want this gone.

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