MICHAEL RUIZ: JonBent Ramsey's father challenges DA after report says family shouldn't have been cleared
JonBenét Ramsey's father has issued a fiery response to a report that a Colorado prosecutor now handling his daughter's cold case murder would not have ruled the family out as suspects if he'd been in charge when a predecessor did so in 2008, even as the family shared that investigators gave them an optimistic update on the case earlier this year."After 30 years if they still think I am guilty then please file charges and we will settle this in court based on facts and evidence," John Ramsey told Fox News Digital Wednesday after Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty said in a recent interview with local reporters that he "would not have" publicly ruled out the family as suspects like his predecessor, Mary Lacy, did in 2008."They can’t selectively apply the unknown male DNA both ways," Ramsey said."They have cleared a number of interesting suspects based on their DNA not matching unidentified male No.
1 DNA recovered from JonBenet’s person."JONBENET RAMSEY'S FATHER ASKS TRUMP FOR HELP IN DAUGHTER'S UNSOLVED MURDER CASEJohn Ramsey speaks with Fox News Digital in Las Vegas in April 2022.He is the father of JonBenét Ramsey, the Colorado 6-year-old whose murder on Dec.
26, 1996, remains unsolved nearly 30 years later.(Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)Dougherty declined a Fox News Digital interview request Wednesday, but his office said he planned to post video from his local interview online amid concerns his remarks were taken out of context under a headline reading, "Boulder County DA says Ramseys shouldn’t have been cleared in JonBenet’s murder.""I’ve never ruled out people in a case that’s unsolved," he told local reporters Tuesday, according to the Boulder Daily Camera newspaper.
"Doing right by the victim demands that I remain open-minded and committed to following the evidence wherever it leads."JONBENET RAMSEY'S FATHER UNVEILS PETITION PRESSING COLORADO GOVERNOR TO ADVANCE DAUGHTER'S MURDER CASEJonBenét Ramsey pictured in an undated po...