A grand jury voted to indict JonBenet Ramsey's parents back in 1999 on charges related to child abuse and being accessories to her murder, according to court documents that were unsealed on Friday by Colorado authorities.
However, the district attorney decided not to file the charges against John and Patricia Ramsey because he felt there was insufficient evidence.
JonBenet Ramsey, 6, was found dead in the basement of her parent's home in Boulder, Colorado in 1996. While her parents, John and Patricia Ramsey, had always maintained their innocence, their involvement in the murder has been speculated about ever since.
Patricia Ramsey later died in 2006, while John Ramsey remarried in 2011. No suspect has ever been tried in JonBenet's murder.
According to the unsealed documents, the grand jury alleged that each parent "did ... render assistance to a person, with intent to hinder, delay and prevent the discovery, detention, apprehension, prosecution, conviction and punishment of such person for the commission of a crime, knowing the person being assisted has committed and was suspected of the crime of murder in the first degree and child abuse resulting in death."
While the murder case is still considered "open", it is classified as a cold case.
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