The case has exploded into national headlines again.
Just over a quarter-century since the December 26, 1996, murder of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey, the still-unsolved case is again generating national headlines, thanks to the support of her father, John Ramsey, for a petition calling on Governor Jared Polis to take decisions about DNA testing away from the Boulder Police Department and assign them instead to an independent agency. The development is months in the making and is directly tied to a book by former 9News journalist Paula Woodward, whose interview with Ramsey at CrimeCon 2022, an event held this past weekend in Las Vegas, was the spark that lit the media fuse and prompted the BPD to release a lengthy defense of its work on May 1.…