JonBenet Ramsey — Her Murderer Revealed

A private investigator hired by the parents of murdered JonBenet Ramsey has returned to name his top suspect — but The National ENQUIRER already found cops bungling the case! Ollie Gray continues to investigate the unsolved murder even decades after he quit working for the Ramseys. He's convinced that an electrician named Michael Helgoth was involved, and The ENQUIRER has examined the shocking evidence at the scene of the suspect's suicide!

JonBenet's parents — John Ramsey and his late wife Patsy — hired Gray after the body of their 6-year-old beauty queen daughter was found at their home in Boulder, Colo. Police discovered her corpse in the basement on Christmas afternoon of 1996.

She had been reported missing eight hours earlier. The family reported that she had been kidnapped, and showed police a ransom note that had been found in the house. Instead, JonBenet had been left in the basement after being struck on the head and strangled — with marks left on her body from the use of a stun gun.

Michael Helgoth would be found dead in his small Boulder apartment on Valentine's Day 1997 — the day after District Attorney Alex Hunter held a news conference to warn JonBenet's murderer that he'd pay for what he did! As the family of the 26-year-old electrician pondered the tragedy, a friend and coworker was grappling with his conscience. John Kenady told The ENQUIRER in 2004 that Helgoth had confessed to a role in JonBenet's death!

"He told me he knew something about JonBenet's death, that he was involved, that it was a kidnapping gone bad," said Kenady. "Mike had a little bit of moral consciousness. It seemed to me he wanted to confess!" [Helgoth is pictured here in a high-school yearbook photo.]

Three weeks after the suicide of Helgoth (pictured), Kenady said he sat down with Boulder Detective Jane Harmer. She was one of the many cops investigating JonBenet's murder. "She took my information," said Kenady, "and never contacted me again!"

A determined Kenady then risked arrest by breaking into Helgoth's home, which was about to be demolished to make room for a park. "I was looking for evidence," he told The ENQUIRER — and found home videos and papers that had Helgoth's handwriting. "It was strange where the videos were located," said Kenady. Refusing to be more specific, he said they were hidden "like they were some kind of secret trophy."

The videos were disturbing, he added. "They were tapes where the camera is focusing on little girls out in public." On one tape is a news clip about the 1993 kidnapping of Alie Berrelez (pictured). The 5-year-old was playing in front of her family's apartment complex in Englewood, Colo., when she was abducted. Her body was found stuffed into a duffel bag. DNA evidence later pointed to a man named Nicholas Stofer, who had already died of a drug overdose in 2001.

Kenady was arrested for breaking into Helgoth's home, and had to return the items he took to the Helgoth family. He got probation for the crime. Before getting caught, however, Kenady was also able to reach out to Ollie Gray about a disturbing pair of boots found near Helgoth's body!

The police photos obtained by The ENQUIRER showed both a stun gun and the pair of boots near Helgoth's body.  The boots were made by the HiTec company. An imprint of the HiTec logo — which is stamped on the bottom of the firm's footwear — had been found in mold on the basement floor next to JonBenet's body!

Meanwhile, Gray found another troubling clue that would go ignored by the Colorado police! The photographs of Helgoth's suicide reveal a cassette tape recorder on the scene. "It's right near Helgoth's body," said Gray. "What was on it — a deathbed confession?"

Amazingly, Gray reported that the authorities never paid attention to Helgoth's tape recorder. "They didn't take it into evidence, or even push the play button," said Gray. "Now, to me, that's Criminal Investigation 101. Where is that tape recorder?"

And while Helgoth's death was ruled a suicide, Ollie's investigation uncovered troubling new evidence that suggested he might have been murdered. "The way Helgoth was shot doesn't fit a suicide," he said. "He's right-handed, but he supposedly shot himself from left to right across his body. And the gun that was used was found on his right side!"

Gray also examined the stun gun found beside Helgoth's body. He found the stun gun photographed at the scene of Helgoth's death wouldn't produce the tiny rectangular marks found on JonBenet's back. Gray talked to Helgoth's friends, however, and learned the mechanic owned at least three stun guns! One of them was an Air Taser — which, when tested by Gray, made the same marks found on JonBenet's body.

The private eye told The ENQUIRER of his theory that Helgoth may have had an accomplice who murdered his partner to stop him from confessing to the murder of JonBenet (seen here with Patsy and her brother Burke). But the chief of the Boulder Police Department would dismiss any interest in the boots by 2002!

"[Chief Mark] Beckner said the logo on the bottom didn't match the imprint left near JonBenet's body," Gray told The ENQUIRER. But the investigator said he couldn't get an answer out of Beckner as to whether the boots were tested for other evidence — including mold like the kind found on the basement floor of the Ramsey home. "All Beckner kept saying was, 'No match, no match!'"

Gray still remains determined to uncover the truth behind the horrible murder. As he told The ENQUIRER in 2004: "I think Helgoth deserves a closer look!"