Netflix’s has brought the tragic murder of the 6-year-old pageant star to the forefront once again, nearly 30 years after the events took place in December 1996. Over the last three decades, JonBenét Ramsey’s parents, Patsy and John, have been dragged through the mud of public opinion, with countless people considering them to be responsible for the death of their daughter, who was found strangled in the basement of their home. Docuseries director that he feels true-crime series and films often try to play both sides of a case, but that his three-part docuseries does not.
Instead, it points the finger at the Boulder Police Department as the reason why the case remains unsolved 28 years after JonBenét’s murder. When asked why he wanted to take on the case, the Oscar-nominated and prolific true-come filmmaker said he felt he could actually move the needle with new information that would hopefully put pressure on the Boulder police to run DNA found at the crime scene with the advanced technology they have today, and help to clear the Ramsey family name. “I think we can solve the case.
I want to give that family a measure of justice,” he said. “There are some basic things the Boulder Police need to do. For some reason, despite a new police chief, despite most of the old players being gone, some of whom were reprimanded, there was still some institutional intransigence into really doing the right thing.
” While is the most recent project tackling the tragic case, .
