John Ramsey Dares Boulder DA to File Charges in 30-Year JonBenét Case

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Nov 11

John Ramsey challenged Boulder County DA Michael Dougherty to charge him if investigators still suspect the family in JonBenét Ramsey’s 1996 murder, after Dougherty said he would not have publicly cleared them in 2008.
Unknown male DNA sits at the center of Ramsey’s rebuttal: he said authorities have excluded other suspects for not matching it and cannot use that evidence selectively against the family.
Dougherty said he never rules out people in an unsolved case and must follow the evidence wherever it leads; a retired FBI agent said that stance is routine when new evidence could alter old assumptions.
More than 20,000 tips and over 750 DNA reference samples have been reviewed, while John Andrew Ramsey said police gave the family an optimistic February 2026 update after evidence was sent for lab testing late last year.
Nearly 30 years after the 6-year-old was killed, the case remains unsolved as the family presses for newer DNA methods, including investigative genetic genealogy, before the December anniversary.