if losing their daughter was not hard enough, yawn and patti ramsey had to fight claims that they had hand in her murder. >>> good day after christmas in 1996. the body of little jonbenet ramsey was found in the basement of the home in boulder, colorado. she was a six year old child beauty queen and competing in the pageants much like her mother former miss west virginia. patti ramsey reported that jonbenet was missing and patsy showed them a ransom note and police conduct a search and find no sign of jonbenet. seven hours later john ramsey found his daughter's body in a little room in the basement. she was beat yen strangled and sexual assaulted. it was not long before police shifted from the intruder to the ramsey family itself. they were under an umbrella of suspicion and the case became a media circus . the family was tried in the court of public opinion. >> i did not kill jonbenet or anything to do. i loved that child. with my whole of heart and soul. >> the investigation dragged on fors months and little progress and no arrest john and patti moved to atlanta not far from where t

. >> reporter: it began the morning after christmas 1996, john and patty ramsey woken up to find a ransomhorrifying discovery in their own basement. >> the worst moment of that morning was not finding her, but realizing that she was gone and taken. when i found her it was a rush of relief and within moments i realized that she was probably dead. but she was back in my arms. >> reporter: within hours, the ramseys especially john felt they were being treated like suspects. what is that like, living under that cloud of suspicion? >> at the time we were so crushed at by the loss of a child it didn't matter. >> reporter: footprints, broken window, dna evidence, all tantalizing clues that fuelled the media frenzy unlike any in modern journalism. >> did you kill jonbenet? >> reporter: it will take 12 years for the boulder district attorney using new dna procedures to clear the entire ramsey family and issue an apology. but not before his wife lost her battle with cancer. yet, all of these years later, he doesn't complain, he only gets outraged at the thought of the rush to judgment let the real