JonBenét Ramsey's father has 'great hope' police can solve her 1996 murder case

Nearly 30 years since the unsolved murder of JonBenét Ramsey, her father said he has “great hope” that police are on the right track to finally solve her killing.

JonBenét Ramsey, a 6-year-old child beauty queen, was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family’s Boulder, Colorado home in December 1996.

Her murder dominated headlines and transfixed the public but for decades has remained unsolved. The case saw her parents and brother cast under a cloud of suspicion until prosecutors apologized to them in a letter in 2008 and said they were not considered suspects. Authorities found male DNA on the child’s body that did not belong to her family which pointed an unknown outsider.

John Ramsey, JonBenét’s father, 81, said he hasn’t given up on solving her case.

He met with the new Boulder police chief on Monday and said it was the first time in 28 years that he felt the case was in good hands.

“They were just open to sincerely discuss the case. I’m just very impressed with the caliber of the leadership now and that gave me great hope,” he told NBC’s Stephanie Gosk.