The child was strangled with a rope affixed by a knot to a broken paintbrush handle, according to her autopsy report, published by the Denver Post. “When we were at school, Gary used to creep into homes, buildings, and classrooms and steal art supplies … paintbrushes, glue, paint, things like that,” Vail claimed. MediaNews Group via Getty Images Six-year-old pageant queen JonBenét Ramsey was found murdered in her Colorado home in 1996. Gary Oliva has confessed to the killing of JonBenét Ramsey, says former classmate Michael Vail. Oliva, once considered a suspect in the case, allegedly confessed to the crime in a series of letters to Vail, and had a fixation with knots and nooses that would appear in his artwork even in high school, Vail told the outlet.

“I said to myself, ‘Holy crap - that’s a paintbrush and there’s a knot on the f–king string,'” Vail told The US Sun. Michael Vail, who went to high school with now convicted pedophile Gary Oliva, believes the knot and the paintbrush point to Oliva as the killer. 26, 1996 - and found hours later, strangled and with a blow to the head, in the basement of the family’s home.Ī knotted white rope and a broken paintbrush were found at the scene. JonBenét was six years old when she was reported missing by her mother, Patsy Ramsey, from the family’s home in Boulder on the morning of Dec. JonBenét Ramsey DNA evidence that shone light on case - but investigators buriedĪ Colorado man is convinced the still unsolved 1996 murder of child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey was committed by a former classmate who was obsessed with knots and art supplies, according to a report. JonBenet Ramsey murder house hits the market for $7M Infamous American homes in notorious crime cases JonBenet Ramsey’s sibling thinks sister’s murderer is similar to Gilgo Beach killer suspect

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