Family cleared in JonBenet Ramsey’s death

New evidence
Boulder DA investigators and Lacy made the decision late last year to have the leggings of JonBenet’s panties tested at the Bode Lab. It is not clear if the leggings had been previously tested for DNA.

The investigators considered the possibility that since JonBenet was sexually assaulted and  undressed and redressed, it was possible that the perpetrator left skin cell samples on the waistband of the leggings.

The Bode Lab recovered DNA from the top part of the leggings, on both the right and left legs, where the perpetrator would have put his hands to move them. Those new “touch” samples from the leggings match the DNA that was found in 1997 on the panties.

At the time of JonBenet’s death, technology for DNA testing on the child’s panties used swabs from fluid obtained from skin and clothing to establish DNA identity.

The previous 1997 DNA swab testing of the child’s panties found DNA in two separate areas. The 1997 DNA contained enough information or DNA markers to be entered into the federal DNA database called CODIS.

The new touch DNA from JonBenet has been compared with what exists in CODIS, but no match has been found.

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