After Christmas and being snuggled up inside, we don't know about you, but we have pretty much reached the end of our must-watch list on Netflix right about now.
If this is your problem too, you might be very excited to hear that the very much talked-about documentary about JonBenét Ramsey, the 6-year-old beauty queen who was found dead in her parents basement in Colorado, will hit your Netflix screens later this spring.
It was on Christmas Day 1996 that the little girl was found by her devastated parents. The strange murder has never been solved, of course, and the world at large have been obsessed with the case ever since.
Nobody knows for sure (except the person who did it, obvs) who murdered little JonBenét, but many have tried solving the mystery over the years. Christmas just gone marked the 20th anniversary of her death, and now a new
Netflix documentary called
Casting JonBenét is aiming to shed even more light on the story.
According to Vulture, the Netflix version will be a “sly and stylized” version of the events of December 1996, part fiction, part truth. It won’t be a solid true crime documentary, but rather a story that involves the Boulder community instead of the Ramsey family or the police force. Documentarian Kitty Green spent time in JonBenét’s hometown of Boulder speaking to residents about the case, though an official ruling on the case has yet to be found. (
Vulture notes that Green did not have access to the Ramsey family.)
While it is unlikely that this new show will do anything in terms of solving the 20 year old case, we still can't help but feel totally excited to get a better understanding of what the Ramsey case looked like to outsiders.
Casting JonBenét premieres at Sundance Film Festival this winter, and it’ll hit Netflix in the spring.
