Finally! Justice For Jonbennet
Woman's Day Australia|December 31, 2018

This evil monster has confessed that he strangled the child beauty queen – 22 years after her brutal murder shocked the world

Finally! Justice For Jonbennet
For years police have struggled to find out what happened to six-year-old Jon-Benet Ramsey, who was found bludgeoned, with a garrotte that was used to strangle her still twisted around her neck in the basement of her home.

Her parents John and Patsy Ramsey and her brother Burke lived under a cloud of suspicion for years, before finally being “completely cleared” in 2008, after police revealed 1600 people were being investigated as persons of interest in her murder.

But in a shock twist, self-confessed “deranged pervert” and jailed paedophile Gary Howard Oliva, 54, has confessed to the terrible murder, sending a childhood friend 15 disturbing letters detailing his involvement in the chilling crime.

“Gary’s account of the murder is actually one of the most logical explanations I have heard in 20-plus years,” reveals childhood friend Michael Vail, who says the registered sex offender called him after the murder to admit he’d done something “horrible” to a child.

PRIME SUSPECT

He has also previously admitted to being near the crime scene when JonBenet died on December 25 or 26, 1996, has a well-documented obsession with the beauty queen and was identified as a prime suspect by an investigator hired by her father John.

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