New DA Takes JonBenet Ramsey Case:
In 2000, Mary W. Keenan was elected to replace retiring district attorney Alex Hunter, who had focused the investigation of the murder of JonBenet Ramsey on the Ramsey family members. Keenan promised to take a new look at all the evidence in the JonBenet case and said she would rely on some of the same experts who had been involved with the investigation from the beginning.
Keenan Agrees With Federal Judge:
District Attorney Mary W. Keenan released a letter concurring with the findings of the federal judge in Atlanta, who cleared the Ramseys in May 2003 in a civil lawsuit, agreeing that evidence pointed to an intruder. Keenan's vow to look at all the evidence in the case remarkably included foreign, male DNA that was found in JonBenet's underwear that had never been tested.
DNA Points to Intruder:
A CBS "48 Hours Mystery" report Dec. 18, 2004, revealed that DNA found at the scene of JonBenet's murder is linked to a male not in the Ramsey family and the Ramseys are no longer the focus of the investigation. The report also indicates that whoever killed JonBenet may have tried to kill again -- attacking an eight-year-old girl who was in the same dance class as JonBenet Ramsey.
The 'Amy' Case:
Nine months after JonBenet was killed, an intruder broke into the home of another Boulder couple and sexually assaulted their eight-year-old daughter in her bedroom. The intruder was scared away when Amy's mother woke up. Struck by the similarities with JonBenet's case, Amy's parents reported the attack to the JonBenet investigators, but at the time, they "were completely uninterested in it," Amy's father told CBS.
Seeking More DNA:
Investigators in the JonBenet Ramsey case are now searching for dozens of "people of interest" who were in the Boulder area in 1997 and trying to get DNA samples from each of them, a process some believe should have been undertaken eight years ago.
