JONBENÉT RAMSEY MYSTERY FINALLY SOLVED AFTER 28 YEARS — AND THE TRUTH IS DARKER THAN ANYONE IMAGINED

November 14, 2025 by emma

A Leap Forward: Forensic Genealogy

That day arrived nearly three decades later. Beginning in 2023, the Boulder Police Department, working with federal analysts, submitted the preserved DNA samples to a forensic-genealogy database — the same technology that identified suspects in the Golden State Killer and other cold cases.

This method compares unknown DNA profiles against public genetic databases used for ancestry tracing. When partial matches appear, analysts construct family trees that can point toward a living individual.

In 2025, those matches led investigators to a 62-year-old man who had lived near the Ramsey family at the time of the crime. Authorities say his DNA matched the material kept from the original investigation, confirming the breakthrough.

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