The grand jury could wrap up within a month.
The 12-year-old brother of slain child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey has reportedly testified about the case before a grand jury.
Burke Ramsey, who was 9 when his sister was murdered in the family’s Boulder mansion on Dec. 26, 1996, appeared before the grand jury last week, Colorado media reported yesterday.
The Boulder County district attorney’s office wouldn’t confirm the reports.
But a spokeswoman for Boulder DA Alex Hunter has said Burke was not a suspect in the death of his 6-year-old sister.
The supermarket tabloid Star reported last week that Burke was the “prime suspect” in the grisly murder and that the Ramseys’ lawyers were in “top secret plea-bargain talks.”
JonBenet’s parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, who have been the focus of the murder investigation, haven’t testified before the grand jury. Family lawyers say they’ll testify if called.
Burke and his parents, who now live in Atlanta, were the only people known to be home at the time of the slaying.
Prosecutors have said the Ramseys are under “an umbrella of suspicion” in their daughter’s death. They have maintained their innocence and hired a parade of experts to clear their names.
Grand jurors, who began hearing testimony in the baffling case last Sept. 15, have heard from several family friends and a minister who was summoned by the Ramseys when their daughter was reported missing.
The grand jury is said to be winding down and could reportedly wrap up within a month, although the same estimates have been made as far back as February.
Authorities have made little progress and no arrests since the slaying of the pint-sized former Little Miss Colorado.
The blond, blue-eyed beauty, whose battered body was found in the basement of her family home, died of strangulation and a fractured skull.