"After being so mistreated by BPD’s original investigation and the ripple effect of pain that the family has endured as a result, the Ramsey family is owed direct and specific communication,” says Joe Berlinger after the department responded to his Netflix true-crime docuseries.

The killing of JonBenét was an unspeakable crime and this tragedy has never left our hearts,” Boulder Police Chief Steve Redfearn said

Investigators are closer to finding out who killed 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey nearly two decades after the child was found dead, sources told ABC News. ABC News reported that unidentified sources briefed on the investigation said a team of experts has been assigned to look at remaining evidence in the case and to “apply the most modern scientific and cold case techniques to try to solve the crime.

Progress is being made in the investigation into the unsolved 1996 murder of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, those briefed on the investigation told ABC News.

The police department investigating the cold case murder of 6-year-old pageant queen JonBenét Ramsey has been urged to keep the victim’s family informed of any new developments. Joe Berlinger, director and executive producer of the new Netflix docuseries Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey,

People familiar with the case say that new techniques are being applied to the investigation into the six-year-old’s death.

Investigators are hoping improvements in DNA technology can help them find the suspect in the decades-old case