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Handled in this case? >> anybody that's followed this case for any length of time knows going back to 1996, there were huge problems at the crime scene with just management of the house and collecting evidence, so dna, you know, has come so far in the last 20 years. the understanding of dna and things done then seem crude by today ea today's standards and with that comes danger. we have a better understanding now of how innocently dna can be transferred from a person to an item of clothing and really any item. whether it's a desk or steering wheel or anything. >> i want to bring in ann brem. w...

Developments? >> well, i mean, it's really a bombshell and what a great job by the nbc affiliate in getting this information out there. we have three things. we have new database but may have new technology and i was thinking about the green river killer. they had dna they couldn't analyze appropriately, too small a sample but some 15 years later with new technology, he was pled guilty to 48 homicides so it's like a hopeful development in maybe we could see more information about the case and one other thing, the ramsey should not have been cleared in 2008 by the prosecutor. because she though...

>> it cleared the mother, the brother, pointed to this unknown male. what do you think that this new information means for that conclusion? >> well, what it means right now is there may be other information or interpretations of the dna. my understanding is that this information was available at the time of the announcement in 2008 that it could be more than one person. and it could have been older. and it could have been a transfer. so it wasn't definitive to the extent you could clear anybody and potential suspects and information. when you look at a case like this, the current d.a. said, it...

Exoneration on virtue of better techniques and analysis. >> we're coming up on the 2013 anniversary of the death. why is this a case that continues to captivate so many people? >> it's really a who done it? somebody in the house? who would kill a 6-year-old is this and we've been fascinated by her. she'd be 26 years old today. there's so many different theories. the house, the different people that knew her. she was a beauty queen at 6 and kind of an unusual circumstance and we want answers. we want to see this resolved. a cold case like this of a child is a heartbreaker, thy cold case is a he...

This country. they plan new testing of dna evidence. the body of the 6-year-old found in the basement of her family's home in boulder, colorado, the morning after christmas in 1996. suspicion over the years fell on a number of people including family members but no one has ever been charged in that case. here's part of what an investigation between our denver nbc affiliate kusa with a boulder daily camera found. >> the move comes after a joint 9 news investigation found all kinds of problems with the dna testing of jonbenet's underwear and long johns. cleared of suspicion based on that testing...