Burke Ramsey, the brother of 1996 murder victim JonBenet Ramsey, just settled a $750 million defamation lawsuit against CBS over a 2016 documentary that suggested he killed his sister. At the time of 6 year-old JonBenet’s death, Burke was 9 years-old.
The lawsuit was filed in December of 2016, two months after “The Case of: JonBenet Ramsey” aired on CBS. The lawsuit claimed that the suggestion that Burke killed JonBenet is “false and defamatory per se” and that “Burke Ramsey did not kill his sister and had no involvement in her brutal murder.”

A spokesperson for the producers of the documentary released a brief statement saying that, “The parties have reached an amicable resolution of their differences and will have no further comment.”
Lin Wood, Burke’s lawyer, stated that “the case has been amicably resolved to the satisfaction of all parties.”
“After handling many defamation cases for them over the past 20 years, hopefully this is my last defamation case for this fine family,” Wood added on Twitter .

JonBenet was found dead in her parents’ Colorado home in Christmas of 1996. Her murder remains unsolved to this day. In 2008, prosecutors cleared JonBenet’s parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, as well as Burke of any involvement in her murder.
This family has been through so much in the 22 years since JonBenet’s murder, and if they indeed did not have any involvement in her death, they deserve to be left alone. We still hope that her killer will one day be caught and brought to justice, and that the Ramsey family will get the peace that they deserve.
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