The societal obsession with JonBenét Ramsey continues, more than 20 years after her brutal murder.
Lifetime has now released the trailer for their upcoming movie, Who Killed JonBenét?, which is scheduled to air at 8 p.m. on Nov. 5, and is followed by yet another JonBenét Ramsey true-crime docuseries at 10 p.m. called JonBenét’s Mother: Victim or Killer?
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The cast has been set for Who Killed JonBenét?, with young Payton Lepinski playing JonBenét and Kiefer O’Reilly playing her brother, Burke.
There has been a resurgence in interest in Burke, who recently appeared on Dr. Phil to give his first interview since his sister’s murder in 1996. A recent CBS documentary, The Case Of: JonBenét Ramsey, explored the case and ended with the suggestion that Burke was the culprit. After painstaking research for the TV special, a team of forensic specialists came to that dire conclusion after finding all other theories either impossible or highly unlikely.
Who Killed JonBenét? isn’t a documentary, but instead a fictionalized version of events. Lifetime takes a similar approach to its past recreations of behind-the-scenes movies, like Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy and The Unauthorized ‘Saved By the Bell’ Story.
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JonBenét Ramsey was found brutally murdered in the basement of her house the day after Christmas. JonBenét’s father, John, found JonBenét’s body with duct tape over her mouth and a cord wrapped around her neck. A mysterious ransom note was left in the house, demanding the seemingly random amount of $118,000. There was no sign of forced entry into the Boulder home, and authorities stated that the little girl had been sexually assaulted. At the time of her body’s discovery, only her parents and her then-nine-year-old brother Burke were home.
After the pageant queen’s body was discovered, the Ramsey family was put under intense scrutiny by investigators and the media. No evidence was found to incriminate them, and to this day no charges have been laid.
Watch the trailer, above.