As the weekend approaches, it’s time to choose which program to binge-watch on Netflix. This is good news, a series inspired by a chilling and never elucidated news story has just arrived on the platform: Cold Case: Who killed the mini-miss?.
The mystery has lasted for almost thirty years. While the criminal cases that hit the headlines often continue to fascinate years later, the Netflix platform regularly decides to unearth these old cases in new documentaries. Thus, after the testimony of the Menendez brothers after the release of season 2 of Monsters, 900 days without Anabel or the series on the Grégory affair, the streaming giant has decided to delight its subscribers who are fans of news stories with a case that has forever marked the United States: the murder of young JonBenét Ramsay, then six years old .
In Cold Case: Who killed the mini-miss?we thus immerse ourselves in this story which marked minds across the Atlantic in the 1990s, when the young girl was found dead, on the morning of December 26, 1996, covered with a white sheet in the basement of the family home in Colorado. A famous mini-miss, her mother regularly took her to beauty pageants, which allowed JonBenét Ramsay to win titles like America’s Royale Miss, Little Miss Colorado, and National Tiny Miss Beauty at a very young age. And to attract the eye of the media, who nicknamed her Little Miss Sunshine.
Unpublished archives on this unresolved case
This Netflix documentary series retraces in three parts the affair which began sinisterly with a ransom demand left in the kitchen of the family home. A few hours later, it was JonBenét’s father who discovered her body in their house. The girl was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered. For almost thirty years, many theories have emerged, and this affair is still surrounded by many mysteries. Through unpublished archives and testimonies from journalists, criminologists, former police officers and relatives of the family, director Joe Berlinger returns to all the details of this cold case, from the avenues explored by the investigators to the controversial DNA analyses, which were not not finished talking…
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