"All the crime that was actually going on, I don't think that the Ramseys had any clue that this was going on," says Gray.įrom the outset, police never seriously considered the evidence that someone outside the Ramsey family may have killed JonBenet. What these private detectives have also discovered is that in the months before JonBenet's murder, there were more than 100 burglaries in her neighborhood. Within a two-mile radius of where the Ramseys once lived, 38 of their neighbors are registered sex offenders. "When you start turning rocks over in Boulder, you know, stand back," adds Gray. "And nobody really looked into the intruder theory." "From the get-go, Patsy and John were the focus of JonBenet's murder," says San Augustin. He and Ollie Gray were originally hired by the Ramseys in 1999, and they are now part of a small band of private detectives, working without pay, and determined to find JonBenet's killer. "A lot of people don't really think about, 'Let's go find out who's their next door neighbor.' It's not until something big happens that we worry about who are our neighbors," says John San Augustin. Now, eight years later, 48 Hours reports that investigators are no longer focusing on the Ramsey family.ĭetectives working for the Boulder district attorney now believe that one, possibly two, intruders entered the Ramsey home and killed JonBenet and they are finally concentrating their efforts on the underside of Boulder that was largely ignored during the initial investigation. Throughout the lengthy and sometimes hostile police interrogations, both in 19, the Ramseys maintained their innocence. Headlines that they were devil worshipers. "Headlines that John and Patsy were pornographers. Absolutely false," says Lin Wood, the Ramsey attorney. "You couldn't go to buy groceries for your family without passing headlines that said that John Ramsey had molested his first daughter. Instead, they leaked information to the media - sometimes fabricated information, charges of pornography and sexual abuse - to put pressure on the Ramseys. 26, 1996, with a 911 call from JonBenet's mother, Patsy Ramsey.īoulder police responded immediately to Ramsey's call for help, and what first looked like a kidnapping quickly became a murder, when JonBenet's body was found by her father in a small storage room in the basement of her house.īecause of the bizarre ransom note, and the fact that JonBenet was killed in her own home, detectives focused on her parents, John and Patsy, as their prime suspects.īoulder police brushed aside the thousands of leads that came in, and dismissed the possibility that an intruder had somehow slipped inside the house and committed the murder. The nightmare began eight years ago, in the early hours of Dec. And investigators hope new evidence will finally lead to a break in the case. In 2015, John told Barbara Walters in an interview that the death of JonBenét and the ensuing investigation and cost of the case had cost him the entire family fortune.It's where the answer to Boulder's most notorious unsolved murder, the case of JonBenet Ramsey, may be found. His net worth was reported at $6.4 million as of May 1, 1996, prior to his daughter's murder. remains on the market, having been up for sale, on and off, since 2008. A decade after it was last purchased, the 5-bedroom house at 749 15th St. The site of Boulder's most notorious crime, the 15th Street home where 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found dead in 1996, remains a tough sell. The former Ramsey residence, on the 700 block of 15th street in Boulder, was put up for sale in 2008, 2009 and again in 2011, when the price was set at $2.3 million.īeside above, what does John Ramsey do for a living? Businessperson Author Politician Naval Officer Keeping this in consideration, what happened to the Ramsey house? Although the Milners own the house, they only lived there as their primary residence for a brief amount of time.
The house is technically owned by Carol Schuller Milner, the daughter of televangelist Robert Schuller, and her husband Tim Milner, but right now, no one lives in the house where JonBenet Ramsey died.
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