The sprawling Colorado home where 6-year-old beauty pageant contestant JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in 1996 is listed for sale for a cool $7 million.
The Ramsey family, who originally bought the Boulder, Colorado, mansion in 1991 for $500,000, never spent another night there after their daughter was found dead in the home’s basement. They finally sold in 1998 to a group of investors.
The current owners are Tim and Carol Milner – Carol Milner is the daughter of Hour of Power televangelist Robert H. Schuller. They paid just over $1 million for it in 2004.
JonBenet was killed on Dec. 26, 1996, bludgeoned and strangled, several hours later her mother called 911 to say her daughter was missing and a ransom note had been left behind.
Her death was ruled a homicide, but nobody was ever charged in the case.
6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found dead in the basement of her family’s Boulder home on Dec. 26, 1996, bludgeoned and strangled
Following her death, the Ramsey family never spent another day in the house that they bought in 1991
A view of the basement where Ramsey was found dead in 1996
The home’s current owners have attempted to sell the house on several different occasions
In 2016, one of the home’s current owners, Carol Milner, described it as a ‘wonderful place’ to live
The Ramsey family first bought the house in 1991 for the sum of $500,000
‘Stately and modernized 1920’s Tudor estate in an epic Boulder location, on three lots, stunning curb appeal with amazing Flatiron views,’ reads the home’s listing on Zillow. It was first built in 1927.
‘Surrounded by luxury homes, a beautiful stroll to Pearl Street shops, restaurants, CU and easy access to Denver. An impressive Boulder estate with timeless appeal in an unbeatable location.’
With a 20 percent deposit, the house would end up costing $40,600 per month.
The original address of the 5-bedroom house was changed to 749, 15th street in 2001, at the same time fences were added and the basement was boarded up in order discourage prying eyes.
It went on the market on Wednesday. According to the Zillow listing, the owners have tried to sell the house on five previous occasions.
It was last put on the market by the Milners in 2013, at the time the asking price was just $2 million.
When the house was first sold by the Ramsey family, it was bought by a group of investors for $650,000.
Patsy Ramsey is pictured with her daughter JonBenet and son Burke – who was nine when JonBenet died in 1996
John and Patsy Ramsey, the parents of JonBenet, meet with Colorado media in May 1997
Carol Milner, a Christian minister, is the daughter of famed televangelist Robert Schuller, shown here in 2007 at Evil Knievel’s funeral
Carol Milner told the Orange County Register in 2011 that she and her husband moved to Boulder from Southern California in order to start their own ministry away from her father’s church.
The couple’s goal was to help college students and families in the area.
The same year, the couple were forced to deny that funds raised for their church in California had been used to buy the Ramsey’s home.
Milner told the newspaper that she was wary of buying a home where a little girl had been murdered.
‘Of course I thought about it. I have four children of my own who were quite young at the time. I wasn’t sure how I’d feel until I stepped inside the home,’ she said.
While in a separate interview with Inside Edition, Milner described the house as a ‘wonderful place to live.’
‘I got out to the car and thought: “Are we’re really doing this? Really? We are gonna do this? Come on, Carol.” I was reticent. The minute we walked through the door my breath was taken away,’ Milner recalled.
‘This has become a dark monument, this thing that was just sitting there, just a constant reminder of something horrible that happened and I’m just a believer in undoing stuff like that,’ she said.
Milner calls the home a ‘wonderful place to live’ and says she and her husband ‘would love to be here the rest of our lives,’ contradicting the fact the family has tried to sell up on multiple occasions.
More than 25 years later, the Ramsey case continues to captivate America.
In February, a new book by former Texas sheriff and now author John W. Anderson, Lou and JonBenet: A Legendary Lawman’s Quest to Solve a Child Beauty Queen’s Murder, was published.
Among those interviewed in the book is Colorado investigator Lou Smit who had been investigating the Ramsey case for years.
Smit argues that evidence recovered under the little girl’s fingernails and clothes did not match any family members or anyone close to the case.
Despite that, Smit says authorities continued to put parents Patsy Ramsey and John Bennett Ramsey under ‘an umbrella of suspicion’ that led many to suspect them in the case.
For many years following her death, John and Patsy Ramsey would remain the primary suspects in their daughter’s murder.
It was not until 2008 that they were officially cleared – though they were never charged with any crime.
The body of JonBenet Ramsey (pictured) was found bludgeoned and strangled in her basement hours after she was reported missing on December 26, 1996
Smit’s copy of the DNA results may be the only papers in existence that are unredacted, with censored results having circulated online in the past, according to Fox News.
Ramsey’s father supported an online petition last year that asked Colorado’s governor to intervene in the investigation into her death more than 25 years ago, by putting an outside agency in charge of DNA testing in the case.
Anderson writes in the book: ‘For the past quarter-century, the Boulder police have ignored the DNA evidence that exonerated the Ramseys and could be used to identify her killer.’
In November, Colorado police, who are working with a cold case review team, said they were hopeful that new technology would help them use the very small amount of DNA evidence found on the child to create a profile to match the killer.
The case is being revisited by the Colorado Cold Case Review Team next year in another bid to solve the case that has haunted the state’s law enforcement officers.
If DNA analysis produces the killer, it will be one of the largest cold case breakthroughs in American history.
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