One sibling left town fairly quickly after the murder, went to France and stayed in a monastery for two years now. And so, there was some interest in siblings. “So we thought, well there’s a motive for a relative, a husband, angry at whomever got her put in prison. At the time, Clay and his dad, Bud, submitted DNA samples that were later ruled out.

Detective Lou saw them as potential suspects before he died, but the Boulder PD dismissed the Hendersons from their investigation after one inquiry. John’s comments are in reference to Sandra Henderson and her stepsons Clay and Cameron Henderson. And she eventually, my understanding was, went on to another company, did the same thing, and then was put in prison.” And this one person had a potential motive in that the mother, who worked for my company, was caught embezzling a fair amount of money and we terminated her.

Speaking about the Hendersons, JonBenet’s dad, John Ramsey, says in the podcast: “Well, one of the important things to look for is a motive in any killing. Still, JonBenet’s attacker has not been captured. According to his daughter Cindy Marra, he dedicated years of his life to solving the murder case. Through genetic DNA, but it has to be actively and vigorously pursued by the Boulder Police Department in terms of trying to track that DNA, and I don’t know if they’re doing it,” Paula Woodward, a reporter and the author of “We Have Your Daughter: The Unsolved Murder of JonBenét Ramsey Twenty Years Later,” says.ĭetective Lou died convinced that JonBenet’s killer was one of the many suspects listed on his detailed spreadsheet. “Do I think this case can be solved? Yes. “I would tell you, in my experience of almost two decades of law enforcement experience, that if there was a suspect whose DNA matched the victim’s underwear, long-johns, and under her fingernails, that person would raise to the top as being a suspect.” “I mean, when you look at the DNA in this, what you cannot say is that there’s an innocent explanation for why you would have foreign DNA on her long-johns, on her underwear, and under her fingernails, of which is all the same source,” investigator John San Agustin says in the podcast. Though investigators have been working on the horrific case for years, to this day the DNA that was found in her underwear and under her fingernails has not yet been identified. She was 6 years old, and her body showed signs of sexual and physical abuse. It’s been 24 years since the child beauty queen was found dead in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. In episode 8 of the podcast “The Killing of JonBenet,” the team investigates the family’s connection with the case. Who was really behind JonBenet Ramsey’s murder? Some of the names on detective Lou Smit’s suspect list concern the Henderson family.

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