List of Suspected Intruders

According to Police Chief Mark Beckner, as of April 30, 2001

Current facts and figures related to the investigation are as follows:

Number of people formally interviewed to date: More than 600. Note: Many have been interviewed more than one time.

Number of outside experts and consultants utilized to date: More than 60.

Number of persons investigated as possible suspects to date: About 140.

Number of items of evidence logged into property to date: About 1,400.

Approximate size of investigative case file to date: About 40,000 pages.

Number of phone tips: About 5,200

Number of letters received in reference to Ramsey case: More than 3,500.

Number of states investigation has taken Boulder Police to: 17

John Mark Karr

Michael Helgoth: Accused by John Kenady.

John Gigax: Accused by John Kenady. Sales receipts and "a dozen witnesses" confirmed Gigax was in Indiana at the time of the killing. Confirmed not to be a suspect by Boulder Police, District Attorney's office, and Ramseys' private investigators.

Glenn Meyer - Tabloid "suspect". Meyer was staying in the Barnhills' house at the time of the killing. Meyer was interviewed by police, gave DNA, handwriting, hair samples, and fingerprints, passed a polygraph test, and had an alibi from the Ramseys' elderly neighbor Joe Barnhill, who Meyer was staying with. Meyer was fully cooperative and nothing was found to link Meyer to the crime scene. Theory resurrected in 2018 by tabloid https://radaronline.com/photos/jonbenet-ramsey-ransom-note-lettering/

Kevin Raburn

Gary Oliva

Robert Ferbrache - Denver rock musician accused on CBS by Andrew Novick of the Warlock Pinchers. Questioned by the District Attorney's office and DNA was taken.

Todd Fuss

Scott Caruthers

Todd Schonlau

Bill McReynolds

Linda Hoffman-Pugh: steve thomas said "Hoffman-Pughs immediate and even some extended family were investigated. Again, absent a great conspiracy (I am not a conspiracy theorist), these simple people of simple means were not involved. Linda the maid loved Patsy like a sister, the husband, although some scrapes with law, showed no evidence to suggest involvement, etc. again, too long for this chat the moderator reminds me. But Hoffma-Pugh is not involved!" ....

List of "Suspects" provided to the media by Lou Smit and Ollie Gray (May 25, 2001):


 * 1) Michael Helgoth "A Boulder County man who committed suicide on Feb. 14, 1997"
 * 2) Gary Oliva "A man who showed up at a memorial service for JonBenet a year after her death."
 * 3) Andrew Novick (also known as "candy cane man") "A man living in a suburb east of Boulder who an informant said had a basement shrine to JonBenet"
 * 4) Darrel Kirkwood of Orlando Florida, " A man who said he killed JonBenet in an e-mail last October to Gray, Ramsey attorney Lin Wood and John Ramsey, as well as in phone calls to John Ramsey. Gray said he believes the man is probably running a scam because he sought money as part of his contact."

Smit and Gray eventually moved on from these suspects and focused instead on John Mark Karr, at one point even planning to fly to Paris to confront him.

After Karr was determined to be uninvolved in the crime, Gray went back to accusing Helgoth. In 2016 Gray said "there's no doubt" that "Helgoth and his accomplices committed the crime".