JonBenét Ramsey’s Dad Says DNA in Cold Case Still Hasn’t Been Tested
The case, which garnered national attention at the time, has continued to live on in infamy and has been the subject of numerous TV specials trying to get to the bottom of what led to JonBenét’s death.
In fact, in 2016, JonBenét’s brother Burke Ramsey broke his silence on the case, speaking to Dr. Phil McGraw, defending himself ahead of the CBS’ two-part special The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey, which alleged that he could have been the one to kill his sister when he was 10 years old.
Burke further responded to the CBS show by filing a $150 million defamation lawsuit against one of its experts Dr. Werner Spitz, calling the forensic investigator a “publicity seeker” who “once again interjected himself into a high-profile case to make unsupported, false, and sensational statements and accusations.”
In December 2016, Spitz filed a motion for the lawsuit to be dismissed with prejudice, according to documents obtained by E! News at the time, defending his Constitutional right to hypothesize and express his opinions about the case.
In the documents, Spitz’s lawyers wrote that “the First Amendment protects this speech on a matter of immense public concern” just as the many other “people [who] have offered various and contradictory hypotheses and theories about what happened.”