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July 9th, 2008

DNA clears JonBenet's family

Posted: 04:29 PM ET

(CNN) - A Colorado prosecutor Wednesday apologized to the family of slain child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey after a new DNA test confirmed the results of the original test performed on genetic evidence found in the case - that an as-yet-unidentified man killed the girl.

Early on in the case, Boulder police said that the 6-year-old's parents, John and Patsey Ramsey, and their son, Burke, were under "an umbrella of suspicion" in JonBenet's death, although they were never named as suspects.

John Ramsey found his daughter's body in the basement of the family's Boulder, Colorado, home on December 26, 1996. The girl had been strangled and beaten.


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