DNA clears Ramsey family in JonBenet murder

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DNA clears Ramsey family in JonBenet murder

Photos: John and Patsy Ramsey have been cleared by DNA evidence in the 1996 murder of their daughter, JonBenet, prosecutors say.

Patsy Ramsey and her husband, John, gave a news conference in Atlanta on May 24, 2000, after taking a polygraph test regarding the 1996 murder of their daughter, JonBenet, 6. A prosecutor has announced that new DNA tests have cleared the family in the murder.

Children gather outside the Colorado home of JonBenet Ramsey for a candlelight vigil in 1997 on the one year anniversary of her murder in Boulder.

Six-year old JonBenet Ramsey was found strangled in the basement of her family's Boulder, Colo., home on the day after Christmas in 1996.

A copy of the first page of the original ransom note found in the home of John and Patsy Ramsey, released by by then Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter in Sept. 1997.

As seen in this image from television, John B. Ramsey, 53, president of Boulder-based computer manufacturer Access Graphics, and his wife Patricia ``Patsy'' Ramsey, 39, were interviewed Wednesday, Jan. 1, 1997, about the death of their daughter JonBenet. JonBenet was a former Little Miss Colorado.

John and Patsy Ramsey interviewed by CBS correspondent Erin Moriarty. Several months after JonBenet's death, her parents moved back to Atlanta and settled in Vinings. Patsy Ramsey died here in 2006 of ovarian cancer.

A Boulder Police detective walks to the Ramsey home in Boulder on Jan. 3, 1997, as investigators sifted through evidence.

Boulder Police Investigator Steve Thomas exits the Roswell, Ga., home of the grandparents of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey with a metal case of contents in January 1997 along with Investigator Thomas Trougillo (right) and an unknown family member.

The newsmedia camp out in front of Roswell home of the grandparents of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey.

JonBenet Ramsey was entered into a number of child beauty pageants. Written below this photo: 'JonBenet Ramsey (6) has had a great pageant year! She has earned the following titles: Little Miss Charlevoix, MI, Co State All-Star Kids Cover Girl, Americas' Royal Miss-CO, St. Dream Girl Talent, & Tiny Miss Beauty, Americas' Royale Miss Natl' Tiny Miss Beauty and many others. She also won the 1996 Sweetheart Photo competition in Atlanta, GA.'

John Mark Karr is surrounded by plainclothes police officers as he is taken to a police news conference at immigration office in Bangkok, Thailand. In August 2006, Karr, a 41-year-old schoolteacher originally from Atlanta, said he had killed JonBenet Ramsey. The murder was a sensational crime some feared would never be solved. The case against Karr later dissolved.

John Mark Karr rides in a police vehicle as he arrives back at the Boulder County Jail in Boulder, Colo., on Aug. 28, 2006. Prosecutors decided not to charge Jim in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey. His DNA failed to match genetic material on the 6-year-old girl's body.

John and Patsy Ramsey sit on a porch swing with their 10-year-old son Burke in 1997. The Rocky Mountain News had just published a story quoting Ramsey friends and family members contending the little girl's parents could not be responsible for her death.

Patsy Ramsey, along with a sister and friends of her family, were at Jon Benet's gravesite planting pansies on Dec. 17, 2001.

Patsy Ramsey defends herself to the media at a press conference where she and her husband, John told reporters that they passed a polygraph test that sought to see if they had killed their daughter, JonBenet. Left is their lawyer, Lin Wood.

The gravesite of JonBenet Ramsey is shown covered with numerous flowers Wednesday afternoon in January 1997 at St. James Episcopal Cemetary in Marietta.

St. James Cemetery, at the corner of Winn and Polk streets in Marietta is the final resting place of JonBenet Ramsey.

Patsy Ramsey is buried near JonBenet at St. James Cemetery in Marietta. Bob Estep of West Virginia visits the gravesites.

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Patsy Ramsey and her husband, John, gave a news conference in Atlanta on May 24, 2000, after taking a polygraph test regarding the 1996 murder of their daughter, JonBenet, 6. A prosecutor has announced that new DNA tests have cleared the family in the murder.

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