Detective Smit (RIP) also spoke about the
DNA evidence that police had found underneath JonBenét’s fingernails and in her underwear in the video diaries. He said that this evidence “was not something that was made public for quite a long time.” An analysis found that the DNA
didn’t match anyone in the Ramsey family 1997.
By
2008, new DNA testing technology had been developed, called touch DNA, which allowed forensic experts to test the dead skin cells left behind on objects at crime scenes. Mary Lacy, the district attorney of Boulder at the time, decided to use this new test
on JonBenét’s pajama leggings and the results came back
positive for at least one
unknown male’s DNA, possibly even two.
It was after this test that
Mary Lacy, the district attorney of Boulder wrote a letter to John Ramsey stating that her office
does not consider him, his wife Patsy Ramsey or
anyone in their immediate family to be under suspicion for the death of JonBenét. (Patsy Ramsey had passed in 2006 from ovarian cancer)
LE needs to feed that DNA into Ancestry searches. The Police made terrible mistakes in gathering evidence. The kitchen had been wiped down by Patsy's friends before the home was sealed and evidence collected. Detective Smit believed that any of the killers fingerprint evidence was destroyed at that time.
I clear a spider web every night across the path where I walk my dog, cobweb theory debunked. Detective Smit had no problem climbing through the basement window in or out, debunking the "window too small theory".
JonBenet fought back until she couldn't. Non of the Ramsey's had defensive wounds. re DNA evidence taken from her fingernails. The Police Department wanted them to be guilty. The DNA cleared them.
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