JonBenet Ramsey’s father sent bombshell letter NAMING pageant queen daughter’s ‘real killer’ after Netflix doc

JOHN RAMSEY, the heartbroken father of JonBenét Ramsey, was sent a bombshell letter from a woman claiming her ex-husband killed the six-year-old, he has revealed.

The decades-long cold case of JonBenét has re-entered the spotlight following the release of a new  docuseries, reigniting hope that it could be solved.

JonBenét was found brutally beaten to death and sexually assaulted on the morning of December 26, 1996, in the basement of her family home in Boulder, Colorado.

The pageant queen's mother, Patsy, had called 911 that morning to report finding a ransom note and said her daughter was missing.

Cops responded quickly, but her body wasn't found until hours later during a search led by JonBenét's father, John.

Now John has revealed he received a letter from a woman claiming her ex-husband killed her.

John Ramsey said he immediately followed up on the tip - but has not received a response yet.

"Based on all this publicity, recently I got a letter from a lady saying, 'My ex-husband’s the killer, and I’ve kept this inside for as long as I can – please, please call me,' he told the .

"We reached out to her, but she didn’t answer the phone, so I don’t know.

"We’ve shared at this point with a private investigator."

After JonBenét was found, suspicions turned almost instantly onto the Ramsey family, leading to a strained relationship with the Boulder Police Department.

The coroner who performed JonBenét's autopsy determined the little girl died from suffocation in conjunction with trauma to her head.

JonBenét had an 8.5-inch skull fracture and horror marks on her neck and hands.

For decades, John has demanded answers from the Boulder Police Department and pressed them for the use of advanced DNA techniques and genealogical databases.

JonBenét's mom and John's wife, Patsy, who died in 2006 aged 49, was largely convicted in the court of public opinion, alongside son Burke, who was nine years old and at home when the killing occurred.

The Boulder DA officially cleared and apologized to Patsy and Burke in 2008.

Now, after decades of having no answer, John said that any hope of new leads is welcome.

He told the Daily Mail that solving the case is "not going to change my life at this point - I just turned 81 - but it’ll change my children’s lives, my grandchildren’s lives."

"They need to have this cloud removed, clarified, and an answer," he added.

"That’s why we’re pushing so hard to get an answer."

Despite there perhaps being a new suspect from the ex-wife's letter sent to John, he said he remains sceptical as he has been let down in the past.

CONFESSIONS, BUT NO CHARGES

In the docuseries, one name stuck out as the potential killer.

John Mark Karr, who fled the US after being charged over child abuse images, knew an eerie number of details about JonBenét and her death and claimed to have committed the murder.

Karr has never been charged with the young pageant queen's death because his DNA did not match any DNA found at the Ramsey home.

In the past, The U.S. Sun extensively reported how convicted pedophile Gary Oliva also confessed multiple times to killing JonBenét in letters to a high school friend.

Oliva was released from prison in January after serving less than eight years of a 10-year sentence over child abuse images.

He was arrested in June 2016 after he was caught uploading vile pics depicting the sexual abuse of children to his personal Gmail account.

When police searched his phone, they found over 695 horror snaps.

He also possessed 335 photos relating to JonBenét, including her autopsy and images of shrines to her.

Since his arrest, Oliva confessed to killing JonBenét multiple times but has never been charged with her death.

Other false confessions have also occurred since JonBenét was tragically killed, including early on in the case.

One man claimed he had been hired to kill the six-year-old by calling the Ramsey family's pastor to confess and later had discussions with John, too.

John explained that the man, who gave the name "David Cooper," first called the pastor and "said he was JonBenét's killer and wanted to turn himself in but wanted to talk to me first."

"I called him and talked to him for a while … and I was asking him questions," he said.

"I was looking for information that maybe he had that nobody else would have [from] reading the newspapers or watching television."

He said the mysterious man appeared to mention items from the house that weren't "in the news that I know of," so he thought the call could be credible.

John told the cops, who didn't investigate or reach out to the man, but instead, according to the dad, "were not interested in following up at all: 'Well, he wants to turn himself in? We'll be here. Great.'"

However, when John had another phone call with the self-confessed killer, "He said, 'Well, I want to bring my family with me, and it's going to cost me $3,000 for airline tickets, and I don't have any money. Can you send me the money?'"

John was fully prepared to send the man the cash, but the family's attorneys talked him out of it.

John had an investigator look into the man. The investigator discovered he was a truck driver out of Louisiana who was allegedly trying to scam the family - so they didn't pursue him any further.

With the advancements in DNA testing and the cold case gaining coverage from the docuseries, John said he remains hopeful his daughter's tragic death could be solved.

"Bureaucrats, politicians, are impacted by public pressure big time, and we sense that that’s happening," he said.

The Boulder Police Department released its annual update one month early into the investigation surrounding JonBenét's death "due to increased attention" on the case.

BPD Chief Steve Redfearn said in a statement posted on X in November: "The killing of JonBenét was an unspeakable crime and this tragedy has never left our hearts.

"We are committed to following up on every lead and we are continuing to work with DNA experts and our law enforcement partners around the country until this tragic case is solved.

"‘The assertion that there is viable evidence and leads we are not pursuing - to include DNA testing - is completely false."