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Podcast: True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer
Episode: JonBenet Ramsey-- the case remains unsolved, but famed homicide detective Lou Smit didn't give up. John Anderson has the update
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On Christmas Night 1996, six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her familyâs home in Boulder, Colorado. A ransom note was found in the home, but it was hours before her father, John, found her body in the basement. She had been strangled with a garrote and her skull was fractured.
The media sensationalized the tragic death of the âchild beauty queenâ and public speculation and rumors ran rampant. What followed was one of the most notorious unsolved murder investigations in American history.
Boulder police fixated on JonBenetâs parents as suspects. Needing investigative help, the...