DNA sample discovered in Ramsey case

BOULDER, COLORADO - A court document shows police in Boulder, Colorado, discovered a DNA sample nearly two years after the death of JonBenet Ramsey. <br> <br> The document released this week is a 192-page transcript of Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner&#39;s deposition in a civil case involving JonBenet&#39;s parents, John and Patsy Ramsey. <br> <br> The sample was discovered sometime after September 1998, when a Boulder County grand jury convened to investigate the 1996 slaying. <br> <br> It is unclear where the DNA was discovered. But Beckner said it did not come from the slain six-year-old girl&#39;s body or clothing, where previously disclosed DNA was found. He said he couldn&#39;t say how many people were compared to the sample. <br> <br> The deposition was taken in Boulder in November 2001 by Atlanta attorney L. Lin Wood. He represents the Ramseys in a multi million-dollar libel suit brought by Robert Christian Wolf. The former Boulder journalist was identified as a suspect in the Ramseys&#39; book, ``The Death of Innocence.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Unmatched DNA found beneath JonBenet&#39;s fingernails and inside her underwear has long stumped detectives. That genetic material does not match some of the girl&#39;s family members or her parents. Police have said the Ramseys -- who now live in Atlanta -- are under suspicion in their daughter&#39;s death. <br> <br> JonBenet was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her parents&#39; Boulder home on December 26, 1996.