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mahatmakanejeeves

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Thu Jun 23, 2016, 03:02 PM Jun 2016

One-time person of interest in JonBenet Ramsey case held in Boulder on child porn charges

Last edited Thu Jun 23, 2016, 04:18 PM - Edit history (1)

LBN for sure, except it's 17 hours old.

One-time person of interest in JonBenet Ramsey case held in Boulder on child porn charges

Gary Oliva has a history of sexually abusing minors and lived blocks from the Ramseys at the time of the murder

By Tom McGhee | tmcghee@denverpost.com

June 22, 2016 | UPDATED: 17 hours ago

Almost 20 years after 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was killed in her Boulder home, a man once interrogated in the unsolved case is in Boulder County Jail facing charges with sexual exploitation of a child.

Gary Howard Oliva, 52, is being held after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a “cybertip” from Internet search engine company Google, that suspected child pornography was uploaded to Gmail by a user, according to an arrest affidavit. ... The porn was uploaded from various IP addresses located in Boulder. ... A Boulder police investigator reviewed sexually explicit images of a girl between 4 and 7-years-old attached to an email account registered to Oliva, according to the affidavit.
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In 2002, while Oliva was in Boulder jail awaiting extradition to Oregon on a parole violation, he gave a jailhouse interview in which he said he was being “persecuted” because of his history of pedophilia, according to a Denver Post article at the time. ... “JonBenet’s murder touched me very deeply,” Oliva told The Post. “I feel she was an exceptional girl whose death was an exceptional loss. I felt the need to build a monument, a shrine, to remember this little girl.”

That, he said, is why he had a photo of JonBenet in his backpack when Boulder police arrested him on a drug charge in December 2000, he said. Police also found a stun gun in the backpack. Some investigators believe a stun gun was used in the killing.

Ramsey murder suspect charged in Boulder child porn case

Gary Oliva arrested Friday for alleged possession of graphic imagery

By Charlie Brennan

Staff Writer


Posted: 06/21/2016 05:07:44 PM MDT | Updated: a day ago

As more than half a dozen national television productions prepare to mark the nearly two decades that have passed since the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, a suspect in the notorious unsolved slaying is in the Boulder County Jail on charges of sexually exploiting a child.

Gary Howard Oliva, 52, was booked without bond into the jail Friday on a case brought by the Boulder Police Department, the same agency that has labored for two decades to bring resolution to the Christmas night 1996 murder of the 6-year-old child beauty queen.

The affidavit for Oliva's arrest alleges that in April he uploaded to a Google email address 20 or more images of graphic child pornography. Some images featured a girl estimated to be between 4 and 7 engaged in sexual acts with an adult male whose face is not seen.

The most recent investigation into Oliva was sparked by a "cybertip" from Google to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, then forwarded to Boulder police via the Internet Crimes Against Children task force.
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Mitchell Byars contributed to this report.

Charlie Brennan: 303-473-1327, brennanc@dailycamera.com or twitter.com/chasbrennan
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One-time person of interest in JonBenet Ramsey case held in Boulder on child porn charges (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2016 OP
I hope they're investigating any possible involvement in the JonBenet Ramsey case... CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2016 #1
There is unmatched DNA from that case jberryhill Jun 2016 #2
 

jberryhill

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2. There is unmatched DNA from that case
Thu Jun 23, 2016, 03:56 PM
Jun 2016

But one might assume that they had his already.

On edit: "At the time he was arrested and questioned in 2000, Oliva gave police hair samples for DNA testing, he said in the interview."

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