Boulder police will order new DNA tests in the unsolved murder of JonBenet Ramsey.
JonBenet's body was found in the basement of her Colorado home on Dec. 26, 1996.
KUSA reported that tests will be performed on the underwear and long underwear that the 6-year-old was wearing when she was killed 20 years ago on either Christmas night or early Dec. 26.
Authorities met before Thanksgiving to discuss more precise DNA tests than those used in previous cases.
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Despite the new technology, Boulder County District Attorney Alex Hunter told CNN that the results will not be significant and that the results will matter only if experts can match them to other evidence found by law enforcement.
JonBenet was found on the morning of Dec. 26, 1996, brutally beaten and strangled in the basement of her home. Her father found her after the family reported her missing and discovering a ransom note left in their home, Reuters reported.
No one has been charged or prosecuted in the girl's death, but a grand jury voted in 1999 to indict her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, and charge them with child abuse resulting in death, Reuters reported.
The district attorney at the time decided not to prosecute, saying that there was not enough evidence.
District Attorney Mary Lacy, who succeeded Hunter, announced in 2008 that JonBenet's parents had nothing to do with their daughter's murder, Retuers reported. Lacy said the DNA found on JonBenet's clothes didn't match anyone in the family and that it belonged to an unidentified man.
The Boulder Daily Camera newspaper and KUSA learned this fall that the report that Lacy used to clear the family was not as definitive as she claimed.
The lab that performed the testing found that the DNA discovered on JonBenet's clothing contained genetic markers from two people, which made the report inconclusive.
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