New DNA testing has been completed which may help solve the decades-old murder of child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey.

New evidence, as well as some which was previously reviewed, have been analyzed by a criminal lab and returned to police.

The results have yet to be released, but a detailed DNA report has been issued to the authorities.

A police source told The Messenger: ‘Time will tell if this is the evidence needed to solve this case.

‘I hope we get answers, and more importantly, I hope her family finally gets answers.’ 

 New DNA testing which could unlock the mystery of the brutal 1996 murder of Colorado child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey has finally been completed

JonBenét was murdered on December 26, 1996. The girl was found bludgeoned and strangled in her family’s Boulder basement several hours after she was reported missing

 Her murder captured national attention but almost 27 years on, nobody has ever been formally charged with her death

It is hoped the development could help solve the brutal 1996 murder of the Colorado six-year-old.

The beauty pageant contestant was discovered strangled and beaten in the basement of her family’s Boulder home on December 26, seven hours after she was reported missing.

The child was found covered by a white blanket with a nylon cord around her neck, her wrists bound above her head and her mouth covered by duct tape.

There was no clear-cut evidence of rape, but police did not rule out sexual assault.

A bizarre ransom note was also uncovered demanding $118,000 from her family. 

The coroner determined that the pageant girl’s cause of death was ‘asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma,’ meaning she had been choked and beaten.

Her death was ruled as a homicide, but nobody was ever charged with the murder.

JonBenét’s body was discovered by her father John Ramsey, and over the years both he and his wife Patsy and their son Burke, who was just nine-years-old at the time of his sister’s death, have been under a cloud of suspicion.

Criminal labs have analyzed new DNA evidence as well as existing specimens, with a detailed DNA report handed to police

The crime scene at the Ramsey’s upscale Colorado home following the killing of their six-year-old

Ramsey’s parents – John and Patsy – were long considered primary suspects in their daughter’s murder and were not removed from the suspect list until 2008, two years after Patsy succumbed to ovarian cancer

The Ramseys were formally taken off the suspects list in 2008, two years after Patsy died from ovarian cancer. 

In 2019, Burke sued CBS for $750 million over a documentary it broadcast which pointed the finger at him for him for his sister’s death.

Last month, Ramsey discussed the DNA evidence on an episode of NewsNation.

‘We know there’s evidence that was taken from the crime scene that was never tested for DNA,’ he said. 

‘There are a few cutting edge labs that have the latest technology. That’s where this testing ought to be done.

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‘And then use the public genealogy database with whatever information we get to research and basically do a backwards family tree, which has been wildly successful in solving some very old cases.’

Sources do not believe any of the new DNA evidence will provide a match for the family.

At the time, unmatched DNA was found under the child’s fingernails and on her clothes.

The case garnered national attention due to the shocking nature of the crime and the prominence of JonBenét in her local community, where she known as the winner of Little Miss Colorado.

Several years ago, CBS aired The Case Of: JonBenét Ramsey, which suggested that Burke Ramsey may have been responsible for killing his sister. Burke sued the network and settled that case after demanding damages of $750million

Police sources do not believe any of the new DNA evidence will link JonBenét’s family to her death. DNA found on the youngster at the time was unmatched.

Police have never formally charged anyone over her death, but there have been several suspects over the years.

Among them is John Mark Karr, 58, who claimed 17 years ago that he was with JonBenét when she died the decade prior at her family’s home.

Karr was extradited from his home in Thailand following his ‘confession’, in which he claimed JonBenét had died ‘accidentally’.

Under questioning he knew details about the murder which had not been released to the public.

But authorities could not link him to the scene of the crime and he was let go. Karr later suggested that he had lied about his confession to cover for someone else.

‘Everyone was so quick to say that I was a liar or delusional,’ he said. ‘Did it ever occur to someone that I might have been trying to protect someone else?’

He declined to elaborate, but one possible explanation that some police were open to at the time is that Ramsey’s killer did not work alone.

When asked if he was with JonBenét when she died, or if he had killed her, Karr shut up and said he did not want to incriminate himself as the case continues to be investigated nearly 27 years after the crime.

Police said they could not rule out the former Little Miss Colorado had been sexually assaulted

John Mark Karr was extradited from Thailand and arrested for the murder of JonBenét Ramsey after he confessed, however police could not link him to the scene and his confession was largely discredited

In 2006, Karr claimed he drugged JonBenét and then had sex with her, but her autopsy said a blood screening showed no drugs or alcohol in her body.

And despite his claim of sexually assaulting Ramsey, no semen was found on her body. However, the little girl did have small vaginal abrasions.

Karr’s admission ultimately came to be viewed as an elaborate lie by investigators.

Last month it emerged that detectives were understood to be looking into new people of interest in the murder after analyzing nearly 1,000 DNA samples.

In 2021, Boulder police said they had interviewed more than 1,000 people in 19 different states as part of their ongoing investigation.

And in September they said there are ‘several’ new people on their radar, sources claim.