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Prosecutors say new DNA tests have cleared JonBenet Ramsey's family in the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old girl.
Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy said Wednesday the tests point to an "unexplained third party." She says prosecutors don't consider any member of the Ramsey family to be a suspect.
JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, were long said to be under an "umbrella of suspicion" in the girl's slaying. Lacy apologized to the family, saying, "To the extent that this office has added to the distress suffered by the Ramsey family at any time or to any degree, I offer my deepest apology."
John Ramsey, a software entrepreneur, believes the case will be solved. "The most significant thing to me was the fact that we now have pretty irrefutable DNA evidence according to the DA's office. And certainly we are grateful they acknowledged based on that, that we certainly could not have been involved."
John Ramsey found the body of his child in the basement of the family's home in Boulder, the day after Christmas in 1996.
Patsy Ramsey died June 24, 2006 of ovarian cancer at the age of 49 in Atlanta, where the family moved after JonBenet's death.
