Ramsey and his family have been cleared following testing of new DNA from the leggings worn by JonBenet the day she was murdered, Dec. 26, 1996. (click here to read more)
The new "touch" analysis of the DNA showed that the results did not match the DNA test of John Ramsey, the late Patsy Ramsey or any other immediate family member. The DNA did however match DNA that had been pulled from the child's panties in 1996.
When asked what receiving the letter means to him, Ramsey replied, "The most significant thing to me was the fact that we now have pretty irrefutable DNA evidence according to the DA's office. Certainly we are grateful that they acknowledge that we, based on that, certainly could not have been involved. But the most important thing is that we now have very, very solid evidence and that's always been my hope, at least in the recent past, that that would lead us to the killer eventually as the DNA database grows and is populated."
He went on to discuss why he thought the investigators and media focused on him and his family as potential suspects.
"It's hard for people to accept that someone could some into a home and murder a child from their bed. We were perhaps an answer. It became an entertainment event for the media sadly. It boosted ratings, attracted viewers to develop that controversy. But sadly there's 2,000 children murdered in our country every year. For some reason this became a very public event," said Ramsey.
Ramsey discussed his feelings on the importance of unifying DNA print testing across the country. He said, "I think if we can achieve one thing out of this whole episode is that I would like to see that we uniformly, across the United States, have a law that requires police agencies to DNA print individuals arrested for felony and put it in the national database. We have a great national database that's been set up; it's been in place for a number of years with very little population in it. There's a huge backlog of DNA samples from crimes scenes and some states submit samples, some states don't."
Ramsey went on to discuss the importance legislation to support his hopes of DNA print testing for every felon in the United States.
"For those that will have the authority and the power to pass this DNA legislation I think is so important. . . It just hasn't gotten on the radar in a lot of state legislatures and it needs to be there. If we could achieve that then at least I would feel like we've contributed something to better society," Ramsey said.
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