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Recently discovered records from the initial stages of the investigation into the murder of JonBenet Ramsey reveal that DNA samples that were collected from her fingernails and clothing don’t match those of her family members or anyone else close to the case. Despite this, a new book about the late Colorado investigator Lou Smit, who worked on the case, claims that police had persisted in suggesting that her parents were still under suspicion in the brutal killing.
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“Lou and JonBenet: A Legendary Lawman’s Quest to Solve a Child Beauty Queen’s Murder,” written by former El Paso County sheriff John W. Anderson, is set to be released on February 28th.
“For the past quarter-century, the Boulder police have ignored the DNA evidence that exonerated the Ramseys and could be used to identify her killer,” Anderson says in the book.
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The documents were obtained from Smit’s archives, which his family made available to a group of investigators. Smit, a detective from Colorado Springs, was asked by the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office to join the investigation into the case in 1997, after coming out of retirement.
Although portions of the January 1997 DNA results have been circulating on the internet, Anderson, shared with Fox News Digital, that the team thinks Smit’s copy may be the only complete and unmodified version in the possession of anyone outside law enforcement. The Boulder authorities had previously denied the outlet’s request for the same document.
Smit believed that the most probable suspect was an outsider, and quickly he resigned in 1998, expressing his frustration with the Boulder Police Department’s persistent belief that the girl’s parents could be involved.
“At this point in the investigation, ‘the case’ tells me that John and Patsy Ramsey did not kill their daughter, that a very dangerous killer is still out there and no one is actively looking for him,” he stated in his resignation letter 19 months after the incident.
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Following Smit’s passing in 2010, his family shared several of his records with a team known as the JonBenet Ramsey Smit Family Team. Among these records, they found the DNA lab results, which were sent from Colorado’s Bureau of Investigation to the lead Detective Thomas Trujillo on January 15, 1997, a few weeks after Ramsey’s death.
“If the minor components from exhibits #7, 14L and 14M were contributed by a single individual, then John Andrew Ramsey, Melinda Ramsey, John B. Ramsey, Patricia Ramsey, Burke Ramsey, Jeff Ramsey, John Fernie, Priscilla White and Mervin Pugh would be excluded as a source of the DNA analyzed on those exhibits,” the report states.
Anderson, a member of the JonBenet Ramsey Smit Family Team, claims in his upcoming book that the Boulder police kept evidence hidden. Based on Smit’s notes, Anderson writes that the findings of the CBI Lab DNA report were not disclosed to the county prosecutor for a considerable amount of time.
“Boulder PD Investigations Division has had a culture for the last quarter-century of not thoroughly investigating or not investigating their cases,” he went on to tell Fox News Digital.
