Burke Ramsey Reveals Who He Thinks Killed Sister JonBenét 
 
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 In the nearly 20 years since JonBenét Ramsey was killed, her brother, Burke , and their parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, have been on the receiving end of continued scrutiny – an "umbrella of suspicion," as it was once described.While theories abound about who strangled the 6-year-old girl in December 1996 and left her body in the family's Boulder, Colorado, home, Burke is adamant on one point: The Ramseys were not involved."It blows my mind. What more evidence do you need that we didn't do it?" Burke, now 29, said Monday of his family's innocence, during the final installment of his three-part Dr. Phil interview, his first public sit-down since the crime.Earlier in the special, Burke assured of a theoretical cover-up, "You won't find any evidence because that's not what happened."Patsy, John and Burke – who was 9 at the time of the killing – were never charged in JonBenét's death and have always maintained their innocence.The local prosecutor later declined to prosecute John and Patsy, following a grand jury proceeding against them, citing a lack of evidence.Now, John and Burke are the family's only surviving members: Patsy died in 2006 from ovarian cancer. Two years later, then-District Attorney Mary Lacy wrote a letter to John saying that DNA evidence cleared the trio. (A decisive announcement some in law enforcement criticized as premature.)Decades later there remains rampant speculation about the role of JonBenét's family in her death – which Dr. Phil McGraw brought up in his special.But the Ramsey men have their own theories about what happened all those years ago. Burke said on Dr. Phil that it was "probably some pedophile in the pageant audience."JonBenét performed in child beauty pageants in the time before her death, and Burke speculated in his interview that the culprit "saw her at one of the pageants."John, now 72, said he believes that it was an intruder who entered the home while the family was out on Christmas Day, 1996, possibly hiding in one of the upstairs bedrooms."They came in when we left and were there when we came home," John told McGraw.As PEOPLE reported in a recent cover story , investigator Lou Smit has said a broken basement window, an unidentified footprint near the body and trace male DNA evidence on the scene proved that an intruder was the perpetrator. Boulder police, however, considered those signs inconclusive, pointing to dust and an undisturbed spider web around the window as evidence that undermined the theory."People still can't get that in their head that we didn't do it," Burke told McGraw on Monday, adding that he thinks JonBenét and his mother are "together again," watching over him.In fact, Burke said that he has talked to JonBenét in the years since her death."Like, 'Hey, thanks for looking out for me ... Hope you're having fun up there, because I'm taking some test,' " he explained.He said said he "keeps the hope alive that [JonBenét's killing] will [be solved in my lifetime]. I don't know, but you gotta never give up."He said the focus should be on remembering his little sister, a girl who loved ice-skating and the outdoors.John, meanwhile, said his Dr. Phil interview will be his last with the media, assuring, "I have no intention to speak out ... in the future."He said, "The real story here is not that a child was murdered. The real story is what was done to us by [the system]." ||||| If CBS's docuseries The Case Of: JonBenét Ramsey only managed to dole out three bombshells during its first night, it saved all the rest of them—the evidence that very clearly pointed toward one single explanation for young JonBenét's death—for night two. 
 
 In the final 20 minutes of the special, the investigators who took on the 20-year-old cold case put forth their theory as to who killed the young Colorado beauty queen—but it isn't as cut and dry as "this person did it." 
 
 The team, which included retired FBI supervisory special agent and profiler Jim Clemente; world-renowned forensic scientist Dr. Henry Lee; former chief investigator for the District Attorney in Boulder, Colo., James Kolar; leading forensic pathologist Dr. Werner Spitz; retired FBI supervisory special agent and forensic linguistic profiler James Fitzgerald; former New Scotland Yard criminal behavioral analyst Laura Richards and retired FBI supervisory special agent and statement analyst Stan Burke posited that one person is responsible for the death. That person is Burke Ramsey, JonBenét's older brother. But it wasn't an intentional incident at all—they think it was an accident, a retaliation for something that had happened earlier, that lead to the horrible outcome, and he didn't intend to kill her. ||||| By Christy Strawser 
 
 DETROIT (CBS Detroit) Near the 20th anniversary of JonBenét Ramsey’s brutal death, famed expert Dr. Werner Spitz told CBS Detroit he has no doubt who killed her. 
 
 Dr. Spitz, 89, a retired Wayne State University professor and world-renowned authority on causes of death, is serving as the pathology expert on a CBS series that re-visits one of the biggest unsolved crimes of the century. 
 
 On Monday night’s premiere of the series “The Case Of: JonBenét Ramsey,” Spitz forwarded a theory that Ramsey was killed by a heavy flashlight that was seen in crime scene photographs on the family’s kitchen counter top the next day. He showed through demonstrations on the CBS special that the fatal injury to the 6-year-old’s skull matched the flashlight’s outer rim, though no DNA was ever discovered on the device. 
 
 The show’s debut also revealed it didn’t take much force for a heavy flashlight to crack a little girl’ skull. 
 
 In fact, a child could do it. 
 
 And a child did, Spitz believes. 
 
 In his opinion, JonBenét was killed by her brother during some sort of late night confrontation. Burke Ramsey, who was 9 years old when his sister died from a blow to the head followed by strangulation, has never been named by police or prosecutors as a suspect. In fact, the district attorney’s office publicly cleared all members of the family after mysterious male DNA was uncovered in the room where Ramsey’s body was found and on items of her clothing. 
 
 “If you really, really use your free time to think about this case, you cannot come to a different conclusion,” he told CBS Detroit. “It’s the boy who did it, whether he was jealous, or mentally unfit or something … I don’t know the why, I’m not a psychiatrist, but what I am sure about is what I know about him, that is what happened here. And the parents changed the scene to make it look like something it wasn’t. 
 
 “At the end of the day, it is the most sad story.” 
 
 Burke, now a 29-year-old man who works on computers, spoke publicly for the first time about his sister’s death with Dr. Phil last week. He said he knows many believe Jon Benet was killed by a member of the family, but sharply denies that anyone in the house played a role. 
 
 JonBenét Ramsey was found Dec. 26, 1996, in the family’s basement covered by a soft blanket with her hands tied loosely over her head and a garrote around her neck. She had died from a fractured skull, that Spitz believes happened before the rest of the scene was “staged.” 
 
 She was probably killed somewhere other than the basement, he added. 
 
 A bizarre, rambling ransom note that some experts believe was written by mother Patsy Ramsey was discovered on a staircase before the child’s body was found. For JonBenét’s return, it requested $118,000 in cash — which closely matched the Christmas bonus recently received by the wealthy father John Ramsey. A draft of the note was found in a trash can in the family’s Boulder, Colo., home. 
 
 “They, I mean the police department over there, were quite aware of who the killer is likely to be, from inception almost,” Dr. Spitz said. “They came here to Detroit to talk to me, they had me come down there, we talked about the incident … It was probably the mother or the brother, now it turns out.” 
 
 The parents gave several press conferences before Patsy Ramsey’s death from cancer in 2006, avidly disavowing any role in their daughter’s death. John Ramsey, who maintained a home in Charlevoix, Mich., ran unsuccessfully for the Michigan legislature and continues to speak out periodically against any allegation of wrongdoing lobbed at the family. 
 
 Notably, by Colorado law, no one who was under the age of 10 at the time of a crime can be charged with homicide, Spitz said. 
 
 Spitz adds that more details will emerge in the second part of the CBS special about Burke Ramsey, including allegations he had previously smeared a family bathroom and his beauty queen sister’s bedroom with feces. 
 
 “The brother has a mental problem,” Dr. Spitz says, adding, “The brother is not exactly thinking straight, the behavior is … of somebody who’s got a problem. When I think of putting feces in the sister’s bed … He was doing that.” 
 
 Cause of Death 
 
 There have been questions about whether JonBenet was killed by the blow to the head or the cord around her neck. Some believe small marks above the cord on her neck are nail marks, signifying that Jon Benet was clawing at her own neck while it was being drawn tight. 
 
 Dr. Spitz disagrees with that allegation, believing she was killed first by the fractured skull before the garrote was placed around her neck. 
 
 “And the parents embellished it by changing the scene,” he told CBS Detroit. “I do not believe that they changed the scene in such a way that they put claw marks on the neck. There were some scratch marks on the neck, that is true, but the flashing light on the back of the head was a fatal blow. If it wasn’t immediately, it was fatal from the brain swelling that took a few seconds.” 
 
 He added the marks on her neck could have come from the necklace she was wearing, or from someone else scratching at her neck. 
 
 He also disagrees with allegations of sexual abuse. 
 
 “I don’t think she was sexually abused in the past, but what I do know is there was a sliver of wood in her vagina and the sliver of wood comes, most likely, from the handle of a brush, the paint brush that the mother used for painting, that was broken off and used as a one-sided handle on the garrote,” he said. 
 
 He added: “All those things, the blow on the head, other activities, were put in place to change an inquiry by professionals.” 
 
 Note that these are Spitz’s opinions based on a review of the records and have not been proven — or even alleged — in a court of law. A grand jury indicted the parents on charges related to Jon Benet’s death, but the prosecutor decided not to take the case to court. 
 
 ‘They wanted to protect the son’ 
 
 For his part, Spitz has consulted and served as an expert on some of the biggest crime cases in American history. He conducted an official review of the Warren Commission decision on the death of John F. Kennedy, where he agreed with the lone gunman finding but said the autopsy was botched. He also testified in the O.J. Simpson civil trial, and in the case of Mary Jo Kopechne, who died in an accident in Ted Kennedy’s car. 
 
 In this case, Boulder police called him immediately to help with the investigation. He was nearby on another case in Denver, Colo., but the Ramseys refused in the immediate aftermath of JonBenet’s death to let him sit in on the autopsy or visit the house as a crime scene, he said. 
 
 “I said to them, on the way from Denver to Boulder, I said I’m really like to see personally what the distances (are from) the basement where the body was, the entrance lobby and so on. And so we go there. I knew the house from the newspapers, I knew what the house looked like. The officer says to me ‘I’m sorry to tell you the family doesn’t want you to go in there.'” 
 
 He added that “no one of any standing” was allowed to view the autopsy. 
 
 Key rooms in the family’s home was reconstructed for the CBS special, which had a finale at 9 p.m. Tuesday, airing locally on CBS 62. And that reconstruction only cemented his opinion of what happened that night in that home. 
 
 The rest of the experts on the series, including a Scotland Yard detective, a DNA expert, and other specialists on behavior and profiling, all agreed Burke Ramsey was the most likely suspect. 
 
 “They wanted to protect the son,” Dr. Spitz said, adding, “Yes, that’s my personal opinion, and it’s based on a lot of things I’m aware of that have not really come out (before) in so many words.”
– A team of investigators who pored over evidence in the JonBenet Ramsey murder 20 years after the fact presented its conclusion Monday night: Brother Burke Ramsay did it. The scenario laid out by the panel: Burke, who was just a shade under 10 at the time, hit his sister in a rage with a flashlight when she stole a piece of his pineapple from a bowl he was snacking on before bed. (A bowl on the kitchen table and the contents of JonBenet's stomach helped lead to that theory.) Panelists do not think he killed her intentionally, but they were unanimous in asserting that parents John and Patsy Ramsey then took over and concocted an elaborate fake kidnapping story as a cover-up, reports E! Online. The show includes an interview with a former neighbor who said Burke had a temper and once hit JonBenet in the face with a golf club. “If you really, really use your free time to think about this case, you cannot come to a different conclusion,” renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Werner Spitz, a member of the panel, tells CBS Local. “It's the boy who did it." Among other things, the panel is sure that Patsy Ramsey wrote the unusually long three-page ransom note found in the home. And the supposed stun gun marks on JonBenet? Investigators say they more likely came from a piece of track from Burke's railroad set, perhaps as he was poking his sister in an attempt to revive her. In part one of the show, the panel replayed the original 911 call, which keeps recording after Patsy thinks she has hung up. With enhanced audio, the panel makes the case that Burke can be heard speaking to his parents, though he was supposed to have been sleeping. (Burke, meanwhile, tells Dr. Phil that it was "probably some pedophile" from a beauty pageant who killed his sister, reports People. (He was seen as "socially awkward" in the first part of the interview.)