A longtime suspect in the 1996murder of JonBenét Ramsey in Boulder, Colorado, has allegedly confessed to "accidentally" killing the six-year-old in a series of letters sent to a former high school classmate, according to theDaily Mail. Gary Oliva, 54, is a convicted pedophile currently serving a 10-year sentence in Colorado for possession of child pornography, but is up for parole in 2020.
"I never loved anyone like I did JonBenét and yet I let her slip and her head bashed in half and I watched her die," Oliva wrote in a letter to his former classmate, Michael Vail. "It was an accident. Please believe me. She was not like the other kids."
In another letter to Vail, Oliva wrote, "JonBenét completely changed me and removed all evil from me. Just one look at her beautiful face, her glowing beautiful skin, and her divine God-body, I realized I was wrong to kill other kids. Yet by accident she died and it was my fault."
Vail has suspected his old high school buddy killed JonBenét for the last 22 years, ever since he received a disturbing phone call from Oliva shortly after the murder and before the case made national headlines.
"My suspicions began when Gary called me late at night on December 26, 1996," Vail, who lives in Ventura, California, told the Daily Mail. "
