Blair told the outlet that many of the locals who lived near the house also agree that Murdaugh is not guilty of the double murder. He stated that his belief in Murdaugh’s innocence is half of why he bought the estate. “I don’t think [Murdaugh] did it,” he told the outlet.
It was also reported that Blair has several keychains and a set of keys to his home that he is willing to give back to Murdaugh’s surviving son, Richard ‘Buster’ Murdaugh, in the event that he “wanted it back… to have something of his mother’s.” The Mirror US reached out to Blair for comment.
However, the new owner of Murdaugh’s home says that he is in possesOn the day after Christmas 1996, holiday cheer turned to horrified despair when the JonBenét Ramsey’s father, millionaire executive John Ramsey, discovered the little beauty queen’s lifeless body in the basement of the family’s mansion in Boulder, Colo.
The child had been beaten and strangled. A nylon cord was wrapped around her neck and duct 𝓉𝒶𝓅𝑒 covered her mouth. Her wrists were tied together. A chilling ransom note demanding $118,000 was found on the stairs inside the house.
Police investigators work at the crime scene near 755 15th Street in Boulder, Colo., where 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was found dead. Photo: MEGA
John and his wife, Patsy, were shattered by the gruesome crime. “There is a killer on the loose,” Patsy said in an interview with CNN just days after the murder. “We don’t know who it is, or if it is a he or a she. But… there is someone out there.”
Police quickly — yet wrongly — began to focus on Patsy and John. They claimed there was no sign of a break-in at their home. They also alleged a broken paintbrush belonging to Patsy was used to make the garrotte that strangled the kindergartner. A rough draft of the ransom note — which demanded the exact amount of John’s holiday bonus — was supposedly found in the Ramseys’ trash.
Under pressure to solve the case, then District Attorney Alex Hunter hired Lou Smit, a detective with more than 200 solved homicides under his belt. After reviewing the case, Smit concluded that the Ramseys were innocent, citing evidence overlooked by police that the killer had entered the home from the outside.
John and Patsy Ramsey, parents of JonBenét Ramsey, speak to members of the media May 1, 1991 in Boulder, Colo. Photo: MEGA
“What a double travesty it could be,” a disgusted Smit wrote in his 1998 resignation letter to Hunter. “An innocent person indicted, and a vicious killer on the loose.” One year later, a grand jury secretly voted to indict the Ramseys on a charge of felony child 𝓪𝓫𝓾𝓼𝓮 resulting in death. (The indictment wasn’t made public until years later.)
While John later admitted that their attorneys “totally prepared” the couple to “go to jail,” Hunter ultimately rejected the grand jury’s decision because he felt they didn’t have enough evidence to convict the couple. The Ramseys were eventually cleared by authorities after it was discovered that their DNA didn’t match a sample found in JonBenét’s underwear. The case went cold until 2006.
Two months after Patsy lost a long battle with ovarian cancer, a twisted then-41-year-old teacher named John Mark Karr, confessed to killing JonBenét. His confession, however, was later discredited. But there remains hope.
The DNA sample from the tiny, badly degraded bloodstain on JonBenét’s underwear is frequently compared to biological samples taken from newly arrested men that have been entered into the FBI’s database. Investigators are hoping one day they’ll find a match — and finally crack this case.
sion of new evidence that could vindicate the man
In June 2021, the socialite was accused — and later found guilty — of killing his wife and son. In a 911 call, the then-prominent South Carolina attorney stated that he had arrived home to find both his wife and son dead outside of his home. However, it appears that Murdaugh seemed to overestimate how much time he had been gone as video evidence was later played at the trial showing the man to be with his wife and son in the lead-up to their murder.
The video helped prosecutors convince the jury that the man had enough time to 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁 his wife and son and clean up the evidence and establish an alibi. Murdaugh is currently serving two life sentences after being convicted of two counts of murder.
During his trial, Murdaugh was also accused of hiring a hitman to 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁 himself so that Buster would be able to cash in on the almost $11 million life insurance policy. He also pled guilty to 22 counts of financial fraud and money laundering for allegedly swindling clients and the estate of his late housekeeper to pay for a 𝒹𝓇𝓊𝑔 addiction.
The case has also been the subject of several streaming sites that have created their own take on the murders. Many of these docuseries such as Netflix’s “Murdaugh Murders: A Southern 𝒔𝒄𝒂𝓃𝒅𝒂𝓁” and Warner Brother’s “Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty” have been the subject of a lawsuit from Murdaugh’s son saying that documentaries and stories have tarnished his reputation.
