This file image made from an undated family video shows JonBenet Ramsey performing during a beauty pageant. Citing new DNA tests, prosecutors on Wednesday, July 8, 2008, cleared JonBenet Ramsey's parents and brother in the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old beauty queen and apologized to the family for casting the cloud of suspicion that hung over them for more than a decade.(Photo: Anonymous, AP)
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The<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Dr. Phil Show<span style="color: Red;">*</span>says "never-before-heard details" about the JonBenet Ramsey murder will be aired this fall when her brother speaks to the press for the first time.
Burke Ramsey, who was 9 years old when his younger sister was found beaten and strangled to death in their Boulder, Colo., home on Dec. 26, 1996, spoke to the show for a three-part series that will air Sept. 12, 13, and 19, the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
Daily Camera<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reports.
The 29-year-old will reveal "what he knows about his sister's mysterious murder," the show says on its website.
Expect more such shows as the anniversary nears. The Investigation Discovery network, for example, plans a three-part series on the case that also begins on Sept. 12, reports
<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Variety.
That series promises to "re-explore every angle," but a network release acknowledges that "we may never definitively know the answer" to the question of what happened to JonBenet
.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>People<span style="color: Red;">*</span>notes<span style="color: Red;">*</span>that the murder, which remains one of America's most famous unsolved killings, put Burke and his parents in the public eye.
No charges were ever filed, though it<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
emerged in 2013<span style="color: Red;">*</span>that a grand jury voted in 1999 to indict parents John and Patsy Ramsey for "child abuse resulting in death," but the DA refused to sign the indictment.
DNA evidence, however,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
cleared all three family members in 2008.
(One longtime suspect recently was busted<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
on child porn charges, and former Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner has admitted<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
big mistakes were made<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in the early days of the investigation.)
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