Refocused JonBenet Ramsey investigation
Boulder, Colorado-AP -- Colorado police are refocusing the JonBenet Ramsey investigation.
The Boulder district attorney's office has hired a retired detective to lead the effort to solve the more than six-year-old killing. The district attorney, who took over the investigation in January, says Tom Bennett will join the team later this month, and work 20 to 30 hours a week on the slaying of the six-year-old girl.
The D-A's staff also plans to review information gathered by private investigators hired by JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey.
JonBenet was found strangled and beaten in the basement of her parents' Boulder home in December, 1996.
Boulder police had said John and Patsy Ramsey were under an "umbrella of suspicion" in her death. In April, a federal judge in Atlanta said there was no evidence showing the parents killed JonBenet -- and considerable evidence showing that an intruder killed the child. Mary Keenan, the DA in charge of the JonBenet Ramse case, released a statement shortly afterward saying tha she agreed with the judge's finding that the "weight of evidence" is more consistent with the intruder theory.