Netflix’s ‘Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey?’ covers the Colorado murder in three parts

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Johannes Wenzel
| Denver Post

Denver — A month before the 28th anniversary of the murder of JonBenét Ramsey, Netflix is ​​premiering a three-part “Cold Case” documentary about the Boulder crime, which captivated the world and remains unsolved.

“Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey?” debuts on Netflix on Monday, four weeks before the 25th anniversary of Ramsey’s murder in 1996. The case gained immediate attention for its brutality and the fact that Ramsey was a child beauty queen whose personality contrasted sharply with the nature of the murder.

Ramsey suffered a skull fracture, was asphyxiated by a garotte and was sexually assaulted, the Boulder County coroner determined, after her body was discovered in the basement of her home on Dec. 26, 1996.

“If you dress your child nicely, you can innocently attract a predator,” an unnamed woman says in a voiceover in the doc’s trailer, raising questions about the motivation for the crime. It started as a kidnapping with a ransom note demanding $118,000 for her return and ended when Ramsey’s body was discovered in the basement a few hours later, family members and police said.

“Was there an intruder or was the family involved?” speculates an unseen voice in the trailer.

The Netflix documentary includes reports from The Rocky Mountain News and Boulder Daily Camera (as seen in the trailer) and other Colorado news outlets, although according to an interview, it was the national tabloids that pushed the most outrageous conspiracies and lied about it past of the Ramsey family. topics. Charlie Brennan, a former reporter and now part-time editor at the Daily Camera, will also appear in the documentary, according to the Camera.

‘Cold Case’ features dozens of new interviews, as well as TV footage, home videos, police calls and other media that approached the story from different angles, developing, dismissing and reconsidering suspects (including members of the Ramsey family) and theories as police and residents are looking for answers. The Boulder Police Department and the news media have been heavily criticized for mishandling and tainting evidence and the investigation in general, as well as spreading false information.

“If this case ever gets solved, we might be looking at the best opportunities now,” a male voice says in the trailer. “We have excluded people for the wrong reasons. Everyone needs to get back to the table. We have to go deeper.”

Boulder police said in 2023 that the Colorado Cold Case Review Team had finished digitizing evidence and completed its review of all related items in the case, the Camera reported. DNA testing remains a focus, officials said.

The new documentary isn’t the only JonBenet media to hit streaming services, and it’s just the latest in a long line of such projects. Netflix’s 2016 show “Getting Away with Murder” and 2017’s “Casting JonBenét” experiment were the last notable ones, at least until September when Paramount+ said it will produce a new streaming TV series based on the unsolved murder at occasion of the 30th anniversary of her murder. , starring Melissa McCarthy as JonBenét’s mother, Patsy, and Clive Owen as her father, John.

On October 2, the show ‘Cold Case Live’ (no relation to Netflix) also visited the Boulder Theater for a show about the murder and serial killers.