It’s been twenty years since the country was stunned by the mysterious death of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey. As we reach the sad anniversary of this heartbreaking tragedy and prepare to delve back into the case in the style of Making a Murderer, JonBenét’s brother, Burke, who was just nine years old at the time, is now speaking out about his sister’s death, the intense investigation and the fact that, even at that young age, he knew that he was a suspect.
As if losing his sister wasn’t tragic enough, Burke was well aware that he and his parents were all suspected of committing the heinous crime. “I know people think I did it, that my parents did it,” Burke, now 29, said in an interview with Dr. Phil, according to E!, with Phil even asking, “Has it ever occurred to you that your parents actually thought you did this and didn’t ask you because they didn’t want to know?” Oof.
In the years following JonBenét’s death, her mother passed away and her father remarried, still living with what happened that Christmas Eve in 1996. As a new documentary takes a renewed look at the unsolved case that captured the hearts and minds of the entire country, Burke says he wanted to speak out in order to “honor her memory by doing this interview. I don’t want anyone to forget.”
The Case of JonBenét Ramsey takes a look at the 140+ suspects and more than 1,400 pieces of evidence that were examined in the initial investigation and attempts to finally find some closure. It premieres on CBS and will run for a full week in three two-hour installments that will be shown on September 18 at 8:30pm (EST), September 19 at 9pm (EST) and September 25 at 8:30pm (EST).
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(h/t E!; photos via Dr. Phil/CBS, The Case of JonBenét Ramsey/CBS)