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Amateur investigators called on the Boulder Police Department to retest key pieces of evidence from the 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey using modern DNA and genealogical technology to finally find her killer.
Cindy Smit-Marra, the daughter of detective Lou Smit who first proposed the intruder theory which proposed that the Ramsey family had nothing to do with their 6-year-old daughter's murder, which happened on Christmas Day 1996.
Smit-Marra and a team of 12 volunteer investigators have come to support her father's theory, and called on police to retest JonBenet's underwear, long johns, and fingernail scrapings need to be tested for DNA they say could lead straight to the killer.
'The Ramseys' didn't do it, and this case can be solved using the DNA evidence the killer left at the crime scene,' Smit-Marra, and cold case investigator John Anderson, said according to the US Sun.
They believe modern DNA tracing techniques - including the use of genealogical databases - could finally pin down the identity of the pageant queen's killer, as those methods have not been tried on evidence before.
Had she lived, JonBenet would have celebrated her 32nd birthday on Saturday.
The investigator's plea comes as the Boulder PD issued a rare statement defending their investigation after somebody tweeted 'you're the problem' at them while asking why they don't retest the DNA.
'Your information is not accurate. The Boulder Police Department regularly meets with multiple entities regarding this investigation, to include private labs, the FBI, CBI, the District Attorney's Office and others,' Boulder PD tweeted back.
Volunteer investigators want the Boulder Police Department to retest DNA found at the JonBenet Ramsey crime scene using modern technology
The investigators called on police to retest JonBenet's underwear, long johns, and fingernail scrapings need to be tested for DNA they say could lead straight to the killer.
Smit-Marra and her team said the investigators needed to reexamine the DNA they have 'under the specific format required to do forensic genealogy research.'
'We request that the lab that did the testing on the long johns use their current technology to potentially identify more markers and/or separate any commingled DNA,' they said, 'This would simply take a phone call from the Boulder Police Department.'
They said if the department does not want to open such an investigation, they should hire a private company that deals in forensic genealogy to handle it.
'New DNA markers found could then be tested in the format required to do forensic genealogy,' Smit-Mara said, 'Then retain an expert to conduct a 'familial' DNA search for relatives of the killer in CODIS using the DNA profile of the killer currently in CODIS.'
The team's efforts are being funded through a GoFundMe, and they are operating in conjunction with a request from the Ramsey the Ramsey
