The limited series starring Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen is set to premiere on the streaming platform this winter
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NEED TO KNOW
- The limited series The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey found a home at Netflix
- Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen star as Patsy and John Bennett Ramsey, respectively, in the forthcoming series
- The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey is set to be released in winter 2026, in tandem with the 30th anniversary of JonBenét Ramsey’s death
A limited series on the mystery of JonBenét Ramsey's death is coming to Netflix.
On Wednesday, July 1, Netflix announced that it would be home to The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey. The limited series starring Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen is set to release on the streaming platform this winter.
The series, from David Glasser's 101 Studios, was originally picked up by Paramount+ but had been in turnaround since the platform chose not to move forward late last year.
According to the official synopsis, The Murder of JonBenét will explore the infamous unsolved 1996 killing and “the devastating personal and public reckoning that followed.”
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The series comes in tandem with the approach of the 30th anniversary of the six-year-old's murder. The death of JonBenét has been explored onscreen several times, but mostly in documentary style.
McCarthy and Owen will star as Patsy and John Bennett Ramsey, respectively. The series will also feature Emily Mitchell as JonBenét Ramsey, along with Garrett Hedlund, Alison Pill, Shea Whigham, Owen Teague, Clifton Collins Jr., Angus Caldwell and Jaime Ray Newman.
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JonBenét was a child beauty pageant contestant who was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado on Dec. 26, 1996. The investigation of her death remains open.
Her parents Patsy and John were cleared of suspicion in the case, but Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett told PEOPLE in 2016 that the "exoneration" decision was "misleading."
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Based on DNA analysis in 2008, then-DA Mary Lacy issued a letter to John Ramsey stating, "We do not consider your immediate family including you, your wife, Patsy, and your son Burke to be under any suspicion in the commission of this crime."
Garnett said he didn't feel that "exoneration was warranted based on the state of the evidence and the complexity of the case."
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