Resolving for the Murder of a Child Beauty Queen and a Botched
Investigation
The killing of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey--found in the
basement of her family home in Boulder, Colorado, with a smashed skull
and a garrote placed around her neck--remains one of America's most
shameful unsolved crimes. A flawed investigation, fraught with police
and prosecutorial misconduct and widespread evidence tampering, means
that the little girl's killer remains at large after more than two
decades.
Now, as told in Killing JonBenét Ramsey an unflinching new
investigation into the crime will seek to finally secure justice for
JonBenét. Investigative journalist Dylan Howard has assembled a crack
team of internationally renowned criminal investigators, experts, and
lawyers with the express aim of finding her killer.
They have sifted through scores of new tips and leads, pored over
never-before-seen crime scene evidence, searched through hundreds of
pages of coroners' reports, police statements, and private journals, and
conducted many exclusive new interviews. They have petitioned courts and
law enforcement agencies, gathered archival material, and utilized new
scientific advances.
This is not a retelling of JonBenét's story; it is an active
investigation of her murder. Combining the compulsive draw of a
Hollywood movie blockbuster, the addictive thrill of the police
procedural, and the heartwrenching tragedy of the real-life murder of a
beautiful toddler and the consequences for her family, Killing
JonBenét Ramsey seeks to put right one of the modern age's most
monstrous wrongs.
