Exclusive | JonBenet Ramsey doc director is firmly convinced case can be solved reveals if he thinks family is guilty

It’s one of America’s most famous cold cases, and he thinks it can be solved.Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger helms the new three-part Netflix documentary, “Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey.”Premiering Monday, Nov.25, the docuseries explores the famous tragic case of the 6-year-old beauty pageant star, who was murdered and sexually assaulted in her own home in 1996.

Twenty eight years later, the culprit still hasn’t been caught. “I think a lot of the material that has been done in the past tries to have their cake and eat it, too,” Berlinger told The Post, referring to the slew of previous documentaries and TV specials about JonBenet Ramsey. “Or worse, it comes to the wrong conclusion.”The documentary covers how the local Boulder, Colorado police department mishandled the case, and how the subsequent media circus cast a cloud of suspicion on the Ramsey family that hangs over them nearly thirty years later. In 2013, newly unsealed court papers revealed that JonBenet’s parents – mother Patsy, who died of cancer in 2006, and father John, 80, who is interviewed onscreen in the docuseries –  were indicted for being complicit in her murder.The district attorney at the time, Alex Hunter, refused to sign the indictment papers and declined to prosecute, citing a lack of evidence.“I am firmly convinced that the Ramsey family is innocent.

And I am also firmly convinced that this case can be solved, if the Boulder Police Department finally does what it’s supposed to do,” said Berlinger. Berlinger, who also co-directed the “Paradise Lost” documentary, which helped release the West Memphis Three from prison–  pointed out that DNA technology has advanced today. So, he believes it’s not a lost cause to finally solve the JonBenet Ramsey case.  “There still seems to be this institutional lack of will to ultimately solve the case, because of what I believe was extreme mishandling at the outset,” he said. “I don’t th...