through creator asking the question, could patsy ramsey have killed her own daughter and detail how patsy's love of stage and theater may have helped her cover it up. >> in 1996, the savage murder of jonbenet ramsey gripped the nation. >> reporter: on the 20-year anniversary a fresh examination of the tragic death of 6-year-old beauty queen jonbenet ramsey with an upcoming made for tv movie. >> jonbenet was everything to me. >> reporter: and a new documentary produced by lifetime. >> from the beginning, the police and media suspected one question -- >> who was patsy ramsey, tragic victim or cold-blooded killer? >> let me assure you that i did not kill jonbenet. >> reporter: in 2008 the district attorney, mary lacy, exonerated the ramseys claiming that touch dna proved the suspect was an unknown male. but this lifetime special is now resurrecting big questions about whether patsy ramsey might have been jonbenet's killer starting with the ransom note found at the crime scene. one of the first detectives to arrive at the million dollar mansion that terrible december morning, robert whitson. >>

and that notepad was patsy ramsey's. >> reporter: another decorative on the case fred patterson telling lifetime -- >> there were some similarities in the randwriting between patsy's writing and the writing on the note. >> reporter: investigative journalist jeff shapiro who covered it for over a decade saying -- >> would an intruder break handwriting or is it sheer owe incidence it resemble bes her. >> reporter: it showcases her love of theater. her chosen talent when she was a young beauty queen herself. >> patsy practiced a lot. she worked on her characters and her vocalization and accents and all of the different things to create the characters. >> reporter: the filmmakers raising the question could she have been acting all along to >> there was a sense within the law enforcement community that because of patsy ramsey's background in entertainment, she was someone who has a grip on great theatrics. >> now, let's remember that patsy ramsey did pass away ten years ago. we reached out to lin wood who represent the family. >> dan, you've been following this from the beginning, 20 what do

entertainment, she >> now, let's remember that patsy ramsey did pass away ten years ago. we reached out to lin wood who represents the ramsey family, no response, but, george, this documentary looks fascinating. >> it sure does. lease talk to someone in it. dan abrams, our chief legal analyst. thanks, paula. dan, you've been following this case from the beginning, 20 years, part of this documentary. what do you make of this new information? >> this new information basically pokes a hole in the argument that it cld been patsy ramsey because there was one unidentified male person's dna both in jonbenet's underwear and another spot in the long johns, and that was the critical relatively new piece of evidence meaning the authorities did this new type of dna testing in 2007/2008. they found what they told us publicly was a match in another so the conclusion was, well, that must be the real killer. now we learn, well, it's not so definitive. >> so, that's the thing. it doesn't actively implicate patsy but it takes away this information that looked definitive about somebody else.