Director of JonBenét Ramsey Netflix documentary reveals who he believes is behind the six-year-old beauty queen's murder - and why her family are innocent

The manager of Netflix's caller JonBenét Ramsey documentary has revealed wherefore helium believes the household of the murdered six-year-old is guiltless - and who could beryllium down the mystery. 

American documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger opened up astir his ain thoughts connected the 1996 Colorado execution aft helium directed Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey, which takes purpose astatine detectives for botching the probe and the media for presenting the girl's household arsenic the main suspects.

The six-year-old beauty pageant princess was reported missing aft her household recovered a ransom enactment demanding $118,000 for the child's instrumentality wrong their Boulder location connected December 26, 1996.

The child's assemblage was aboriginal recovered by her begetter successful the basement of the family's upscale home, brutally beaten and strangled to death.

Speaking to the New York Post, Joe said: 'I americium firmly convinced that the Ramsey household is innocent. And I americium besides firmly convinced that this lawsuit tin beryllium solved, if the Boulder Police Department yet does what it's expected to do.'

He added that helium believes each suspects should beryllium 'put backmost connected the table' arsenic galore 'likely suspects' were ruled retired astatine the clip due to the fact that of the faulty DNA analysis.

However helium did admit that adjacent the Ramsey household should besides beryllium DNA tested again due to the fact that they would beryllium much than blessed to assist. 

Bereaved begetter John Ramsey, 80, took portion successful the Netflix documentary successful the hopes it could find the answers to his daughter's execution case.

Joe said: 'John Ramsey agreed to beryllium down with us, did not inquire to beryllium paid, and was not paid — we don't wage our subjects — and asked for nary editorial input.

'No questions were disconnected limits. To me, that is an 80-year-old feline who…wants to get that lawsuit solved. It's conscionable unthinkable that the household had thing to bash with this.'

Joe told the work that helium believes an intruder entered the location and murdered the small girl, calling it 'a overmuch much plausible scenario'.

JonBenét was found brutally beaten and strangled to death and it was ruled a homicide, but cipher was ever prosecuted and the lawsuit remains cold. 

The details of the transgression and video footage of JonBenét from her quality pageants propelled the lawsuit into 1 of the highest-profile mysteries successful the US.

She'd been crowned Little Miss Colorado, Little Miss Charlevoix, Colorado State All-Star Kids Cover Girl, and National Tiny Miss Beauty.

The enigma unleashed a bid of true-crime books and tv specials.

The territory lawyer astatine the clip of JonBenét's decease said her parents were nether 'an umbrella of suspicion' aboriginal on.

Theorists person besides questioned whether their lad Burke, who was aged 9 astatine the clip of JonBenet's death, killed his sister accidentally successful a infinitesimal of rage, and his parents covered it up.

But tests successful 2008 connected recently discovered DNA connected her covering pointed to the engagement of an 'unexplained 3rd party' successful her slaying, and not her parents oregon Burke.

That led erstwhile territory lawyer Mary Lacy to wide the Ramseys of immoderate involvement, 2 years aft ma Patsy died of ovarian crab successful 2006, calling the mates 'victims of this crime'.

Investigators had identified different suspects, and developed a mentation astir an intruder, oregon respective intruders, entering the location and killed the pageant princess.

Among the suspects was convicted pedophile Gary Oliva, who allegedly confessed to the killing.

Others included the Ramsey's housekeeper, arsenic good arsenic the antheral who portrayed Santa Claus astatine a vacation enactment the youngster attended.

Officials successful 2006 announced that different suspect, John Mark Karr, had been arrested successful Bangkok, Thailand.

He'd allegedly told an American researcher that helium drugged JonBenét and sexually assaulted her earlier accidentally sidesplitting her.

But prosecutors dropped that probe aft DNA tests failed to nexus him to the transgression scene.

Investigations are ongoing. Police and officials successful Boulder successful December 2021 said they'd processed 1,500 pieces of grounds and analyzed astir 1,000 DNA samples successful their hunt for the killer.

Detectives person digitized each the samples of handwriting, fingerprints, and footwear prints collected implicit the years, and regularly cheque for DNA matches successful the hopes of solving the case.

But dada John has questioned whether they're doing their jobs properly. In May 2022 helium called for an extracurricular bureau to instrumentality work for DNA investigating successful the case.

The caller bid brings unneurotic archive footage of JonBenét walking gleefully astir the household location and the frantic signaling of ma Patsy's 911 telephone declaring that her 'daughter's gone.'

The show, which streams from November 25, focuses connected errors by the police, including the nonaccomplishment to unafraid the location and the imaginable removal of evidence.

It features an interrogation with Burke, who describes the Ramseys arsenic 'just a regular family' earlier the fateful Christmas.

The trailer shows dada John, 80, recalling however the 'unbelievable' calamity played out.

It besides features a soundbite of an idiosyncratic progressive successful the case, saying: 'We've been ruling radical retired for the incorrect reasons.'

'Everybody should beryllium backmost connected the table. You person to spell deeper,' says the person.

The amusement besides probes whether Patsy, herself a erstwhile quality queen, made JonBenet a people for predators by encouraging her to formal up for her quality contests.

She was buried successful Marietta, Georgia, beside her mother, and her half-sister Elizabeth Ramsey, who died successful a car clang successful 1992.

Director Joe Berlinger says the bid takes purpose astatine those who 'played armchair detective for 3 decades, often callously pointing a digit astatine the precise radical who suffered specified an unthinkable loss.'

He added: 'Through unprecedented entree and a broad multi-year investigation, we uncover the heavy flaws successful however the lawsuit was primitively handled, resulting successful a oversea of conspiracy theories that astir destroyed the Ramsey household for a 2nd time.'

Dionne Waugh, a spokeswoman for Boulder Police Department declined to remark connected an 'open and ongoing investigation.' Anyone with accusation connected the slaying should telephone the tipline astatine 303-441-1974, she said.

Shannon Carbone, a spokeswoman for Boulder's bureau of the District Attorney, said a caller lawsuit reappraisal had been 'helpful' and that investigators continued to 'make advancement connected this tragic case.'

'The overarching extremity is to look astatine the facts and grounds with caller eyes and an unfastened mind, equipped with the latest developments successful forensic science,' Carbone told DailyMail.com.