Two granddaughters of the longtime detective in the JonBenét Ramsey case are keeping his legacy alive and doing what they can to honor the slain girl's memory as well. Twenty-four years after the beauty queen was killed in her Boulder, Colo. home at the age of 6, ABC's 20/20 is devoting its Friday, Jan. 15 episode to the ongoing investigation of the still-unsolved crime. Specifically, the episode will focus on Lexi Marra and Jessa Van Der Woerd, whose grandfather Lou Smit had dedicated his life to proving the Ramsey family's innocence until his 2010 death after battling colon cancer. "They know a lot about the case, my two girls," Lou's son-in-law Kent...
- 1/15/2021
- E! Online
Nearly 25 years after JonBenét Ramsey's death, the 6-year-old child pageant queen's untimely passing is in the headlines once again. The unsolved case, a longtime subject of public curiosity, speculation and press attention, is now the focus of another documentary, JonBenét Ramsey: What Really Happened?, streaming on the newly launched Discovery+. According to a trailer for the project, viewers can expect to hear previously unreleased audio from Lou Smit, a homicide detective who kept an audio diary while working on the case. While Lou has since died, his daughter and son are set to appear in the documentary, according to USA Today, along with JonBenét's dad,...
- 1/11/2021
- E! Online
A longtime suspect in the 1996 murder of JonBenét Ramsey in Boulder, Colorado, has allegedly confessed to “accidentally” killing the six-year-old in a series of letters sent to a former high school classmate, according to the Daily Mail. Gary Oliva, 54, is a convicted pedophile currently serving a 10-year sentence in Colorado for possession of child pornography, but is up for parole in 2020.
“I never loved anyone like I did JonBenét and yet I let her slip and her head bashed in half and I watched her die,” Oliva wrote in a letter to his former classmate,...
“I never loved anyone like I did JonBenét and yet I let her slip and her head bashed in half and I watched her die,” Oliva wrote in a letter to his former classmate,...
- 1/11/2019
- by Amelia McDonell-Parry
- Rollingstone.com
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