Jacqueline Dilson has maintained her belief that it was her ex boyfriend Robert ‘Chris’ Wolf who murdered JonBenét Ramsey at her home in Boulder, Colorado on Christmas Day 1997
JonBenét Ramsey was just six years old when she was killed
The former girlfriend of a main suspect in the JonBenét Ramsey murder has made a bombshell new claim about her ex-partner.
Jacqueline Dilson recalled how her ex lover Robert “Chris” Wolf mysteriously vanished from their home in Colorado for a few hours on Christmas Day in 1997. He explained his absence away easily, claiming that he’d left for a work party. But what was most suspicious was the way he acted on his return that evening, and over the following weeks and months.
It led her to believe that he must’ve been the person who killed the six-year-old. Investigators once held similar suspicions. Wolf is one of only two suspects to be detained by police in relation to the still-unsolved case.
JonBenét’s parents John and Patsy(Image: Denver Post via Getty Images)
Wolf has maintained his innocence throughout the investigation. Police in 2011 said he had been thoroughly investigated as a suspect. On the morning of Boxing Day, 1996, JonBenét’s mum and dad awoke unable to find their daughter anywhere on their sprawling Boulder estate.
Later that day, she was finally discovered covered with a blanket in a basement storage room, with her wrists tied and duct tape across her mouth. Around her neck was a garotte, which had been tightened with paintbrushes.
Dilson claims the police’s focus on John and Pasty Ramsey lead them to overlook glaring evidence against Wolf. The parents were immediately suspected after the discovery of their child’s body.
Wolf was first brought to the police’s attention weeks after the murder when Jacqueline raised the alarm, pointing to his bizarre behaviour and chilling statements about the killing. Speaking to the Daily Mail, Jacqueline is calling for police to reopen the investigation.
She explained how she awoke on Boxing Day to find her boyfriend showering, and a pile of clothes that were stained with mud on the floor. On questioning him about where he disappeared to on Christmas Day, he became aggressive, she said, adding how he became angry when JonBenét’s death made the news. He also said he wanted the little girl’s father to die, accusing him of sexually abusing her, police records said.
US teacher John Mark Karr, another suspect(Image: AFP)
Jacqueline handed over Wolf’s clothes to authorities for DNA testing and gave them handwriting sampled to be checked against a ransom note left on a staircase near JonBenét’s body. When Wolf was taken in for questioning, he denied any involvement and initially refused and provide DNA or a handwriting sample. Jacqueline also took a line of rope she’d bought from Home Depot days before the murder that had several feet missing.
Jacqueline and Wolf met in the spring of 1994, but over the next two years their relationship became plagued by fights and what she called unpredictable behaviour. The pair were living together in December 1996, but Jacqueline says she wanted to kick Wolf out as he was getting “kind of scary” and she claims he was prone to violent mood swings.
She also claims she grew suspicious when Wolf started borrowing her truck, disappearing for hours at a time. Tensioned peaked on Christmas Day when Jacqueline’s grown son gave Wolf a t-shirt with the words ‘Santa Barbara’ on it. Wolf allegedly became annoyed and asked if it was from a tennis club, a sign of capitalist indulgent according to him. Chillingly, the ransom note found near JonBenét’s body was signed ‘S.B.T.C’
While police said that they had thoroughly investigated him, and he had been cleared of involvement, Jacqueline isn’t convinced. She has penned a book detailing her experience, hoping it could lead police to look into him again.
JonBenet competed in child beauty pageants(Image: Netflix)
In the book, The Unheard Call, Wolf is presented as a radical with anti-capitalist views. He held a grudge against John Ramsey for being tied to arms producer Lockheed Martin. She claims that Wolf’s motive was an act of revenge against what he saw as John’s role in slaughtering innocent women and children in conflicts across the world.
She claims he returned on Boxing Day morning screaming about the “motherf***er on the hill with his computer systems that are killing women and children in third world countries.” The Hill was a nickname for the well-off area of Boulder in which the Ramsey’s lived. At this point, details of the murder had not been broadcast yet.
In the following days, Jacqueline claims Wolf became obsessed with news coverage of the case, and would curse the media for the lack of information available. But it was a statement a few days after Christmas that chilled her to the bone. She recalled him saying: “You know, me and OJ [Simpson] have a lot in common. We get away with everything.”
In another instance, she claims he suddenly announced: “You know I was just thinking, if I was going to strangle someone, I wouldn’t use my hands. I’d use a rope. Wouldn’t you?” At that point, it had not yet been made public that JonBenét had been strangled with a rope.
“I’ve felt this burden of responsibility that I was one of the only people who could help to finally solve this case,” she tells the Daily Mail. “And there’s no way I can stop pushing until I get answers. It’s like a train inside of me that refuses to quit.”
Wolf told the publication that the accusations are “completely absurd”. He claims he started to panic when questioned by cops who demanded he tell them “everything about the murder”, despite having initially been brought in on a suspended driving licence.
The only other suspect detained in relation to the case was John Mark Karr, who falsely confessed to the shocking murder in 2006. However, DNA evidence at the scene did not belong to him and he was released.
