JonBenet Ramsey MD confident case can be solved – reveals whether he thinks family is guilty

It’s one of America’s most famous cold cases, and he thinks it can be solved.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger helms the new three-part Netflix documentary, “Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey.”

Premiering Monday, November 25, the docu-series explores the famously tragic case of the 6-year-old beauty pageant star who was murdered and sexually assaulted in her own home in 1996. Twenty-eight years later, the culprit is still at large. been caught.

“I think a lot of the material that’s been done in the past is trying to have their cake and eat it too,” Berlinger told The Post, referring to a slew of past documentaries and television specials about JonBenet Ramsey .

“Or worse, it comes to the wrong conclusion.”

The documentary covers how local police in Boulder, Colo., mishandled the case and how the ensuing media circus cast a cloud of suspicion over the Ramsey family that hangs over them nearly 30 years later.

In 2013, newly unsealed court papers revealed that JonBenet’s parents – mother Patsy, who died of cancer in 2006, and father John, 80, who is interviewed on screen in the documentaries – were charged with complicity in her murder. The district attorney at the time, Alex Hunter, refused to sign the indictment and declined to prosecute, citing a lack of evidence.

“I am firmly convinced that the Ramsey family is innocent. And I also firmly believe that this case can be solved if the Boulder Police Department finally does what it needs to do,” Berlinger said.

Berlinger, who also co-directed the “Paradise Lost” documentary that helped free the West Memphis Three from prison, pointed out that DNA technology is advanced today. So he believes that finally solving the JonBenet Ramsey case is not a lost cause.

“There still seems to be this institutional lack of will to ultimately resolve the case because of what I believe was extreme mistreatment at the outset,” he said.

“I don’t think there has been a good comprehensive documentary series that has really analyzed this case, which hopefully will also put a little pressure on the authorities to do the right thing.”

Berlinger noted that it was not difficult to get JonBenet’s father, John, to agree to appear in the documentary.

“John Ramsey agreed to sit down with us, didn’t ask to be paid and wasn’t paid – we don’t pay our profession – and didn’t ask for editorial input. No questions were off limits. To me, that’s an 80-year-old guy who … wants to get that case resolved. It’s just inconceivable that the family had anything to do with this.”

Berlinger said he believes many “likely suspects” were ruled out at the time of the murder because of the faulty DNA analysis at the time.

“I think all the suspects should now be put back on the table, including the Ramseys. And they would be the first to say, ‘Sure, put this back on the table, but let’s do the DNA test.’ This is not a TV trial. I don’t want to do to people what was done to the Ramseys,” he added.

“We want the proper authorities to reinvestigate this case and the potential suspects after the DNA is properly retested.”

As for who did it?

Berlinger said, “Unfortunately, there are a lot of people in the world who are attracted to little girls and can do terrible things to them. (An intruder) is a much more plausible scenario than the family being involved, if you look at some of the basic facts of the case.”