December 26, 1996
JonBenet Ramsey, 6, is found dead in the basement of her family’s Boulder home, several hours after her mother called 911 to say the girl was missing and that she had found a ransom note. She suffered a fractured skull and appeared to be strangled
January 1, 1997
Patsy and John Ramsey appear in their first TV interview to protest their innocence
April 30, 1997
The couple participates in formal interviews at the Boulder County Justice Center
May 20, 1997
Mrs Ramsey, who authorities believe could have written the ransom note, gives police a fifth handwriting sample
Summer 1997
The Ramseys move from Colorado to Atlanta
March 12, 1998
Boulder police ask the DA to take the case to a grand jury
June, 1998
Boulder police present the results of their investigation to Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter’s prosecuting team and outside advisers; the Ramseys are interviewed separately over three days by investigators
August 12, 1998
Authorities say the Ramsey case will go to a grand jury and the following month, it begins
October 13, 1999
The grand jury disbands and the DA announces there is not enough evidence to file charges against the couple
March 29, 2001
The Ramseys file an $80 million libel and defamation lawsuit against officers at the Boulder Police Department, who later agree to an undisclosed settlement in the case
March 31, 2003
A federal judge says evidence is ‘more consistent with a theory that an intruder murdered JonBenet than it was with a theory that Mrs. Ramsey did’
December 2003
New DA confirms that DNA from a spot of blood from JonBenet’s underwear has been entered into the FBI’s national database – but that it’s not from her family
June 24, 2006
Patsy Ramsey dies in Roswell, Georgia, at age 49, from ovarian cancer
August. 16, 2006
John Mark Karr, a 41-year-old American school teacher who confessed to the crime, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand – but his DNA does not match that found on the body
July 9, 2008
DA makes public a letter she has written to John Ramsey explaining that new DNA tests have convinced her that no member of the Ramsey family should remain under any suspicion
September 2010
Reports surface that police seek to re-interview JonBenet’s brother Burke, who was nine at the time of her death, as they continue to investigate the killing
July 21, 2011
John Ramsey remarries to Jan Rousseaux, 53, a designer
June 14, 2012
James Kolar, who worked as an investigator in the DA’s Office, writes in a new book that the Ramsey family ‘may have been involved at least as an accessory after the fact’
October 23, 2013
Judge rules that the court will release grand jury indictment about the Ramseys
October 25, 2013
Indictment is released, revealing that in 1999 it accused the Ramseys of two counts each of child abuse resulting in death in connection to the first-degree murder of JonBenet