The Colorado grand jury looking into the murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey voted to indict the little beauty queen’s parents 13 years ago — but prosecutors declined to press the case, a bombshell new report claims.
The grand jury voted in 1999 to indict John and Patsy Ramsey on charges of child abuse resulting in death, a Class II felony that can carry up to 48 years in prison, sources told Colorado’s Boulder Daily Camera newspaper.
But, the paper said, Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter never revealed the vote results — and, in fact, refused to sign an indictment.
He announced the end of the investigation, telling the media, “I and my prosecution task force believe we do not have sufficient evidence to warrant a filing of charges against anyone who has been investigated at this time.”
JonBenet was murdered in her family’s Boulder home on Christmas Day in 1996.
A lawyer for John Ramsey, 69, yesterday hailed Hunter’s actions.
“If what you report actually happened, then there were some very professional and brave people in Alex’s office,” attorney Bryan Morgan told the Camera.
Patsy Ramsey died of ovarian cancer in 2006, at age 49.
Experts are unclear whether the DA acted properly in not signing the indictment, the paper said.