The eight-episode series also stars Clive Owen, Garrett Hedlund, Alison Pill, and Shea Whigham.

Netflix will release JonBenét Ramsey show starring Melissa McCarthy

The eight-episode series also stars Clive Owen, Garrett Hedlund, Alison Pill, and Shea Whigham.

By Wesley Stenzel

Wesley Stenzel

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July 1, 2026 3:23 p.m. ET

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- Netflix will release *The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey* this winter.

- The show was previously announced as a Paramount+ project in 2024.

- Melissa McCarthy, Clive Owen, Emily Mitchell, Garrett Hedlund, Alison Pill, and Shea Whigham star in the series.

The JonBenét Ramsey TV show will see the light of day after all.

Netflix announced that it will release *The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey* this winter.

The news comes nearly two years after the project was originally announced as a Paramount+ project. Deadline reported that the limited series had been in turnaround since late 2025, when Paramount decided it would not release the show after all.

Netflix did not immediately respond to **'s request for more information.

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The eight-episode series will star Emily Mitchell, who recently appeared in *Lee Cronin's The Mummy*, as JonBenét Ramsey, the 6-year-old beauty pageant queen who was found dead on Dec. 26, 1996 in the basement of the family's house in Boulder, Colo.

Melissa McCarthy headlines the series as JonBenét's mother, Patsy Ramsey, who died in 2006. Clive Owen co-leads as the central victim's father, John Bennett Ramsey, who is now 82.

Melissa McCarthy in Los Angeles on April 7, 2026.

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Other cast members include Garrett Hedlund (*Tron: Legacy*) as Detective Steve Thomas, Alison Pill (*The Newsroom*) as Detective Linda Arndt, Shea Whigham (*Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning*) as Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter, Owen Teague (*Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes*) as Shane Edwards, Clifton Collins Jr. (*Westworld*) as Detective Tom Trujillo, and Angus Caldwell as JonBenét's brother Burke Ramsey.

Recurring cast members include Rory Cochrane (*Dazed and Confused*) as Boulder Police Commander John Eller, Chris Bauer (*True Blood*) as Chief Tom Koby, Will Patton (*Minari*) as Detective Lou Smit, Jeremy Bobb (*Russian Doll*) as Deputy District Attorney Pete Hofstrom, John Billingsley (*Star Trek: Enterprise*) as Bill "Santa" McReynolds, and Josh Stamberg (*Drop Dead Diva*) as Reed Hunt.

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Margo Martindale (*The Americans*) will guest star as Patsy's mother Nedra Paugh, while Tzi Ma (*The Farewell*) will guest as forensic scientist Dr. Henry Lee. Jaime Ray Newman (*General Hospital*) will also guest star as Amelia Hunt.

Richard LaGravenese (*Behind the Candelabra*) serves as showrunner, while Harrison Query (*Heads of State*) and author Tommy Wallach are co-writers and executive producers. Other EPs include McCarthy, Anne Sewitsky, and 101 Studios' David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, and David Hutkin. Sewitsky also directed four of the episodes.

Clive Owen in North Hollywood, Calif., on May 21, 2024.

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JonBenét was found dead hours after she was reported missing and a handwritten ransom note was discovered. In 2006, a decade after her death, former teacher John Mark Karr said that he killed JonBenét, but his confession was deemed false after DNA evidence failed to place him at the scene of the crime.

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JonBenét's murder is still unsolved, and has been the subject of several documentary projects. One documentary series, *The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey*, led Burke to file defamation lawsuits against both CBS and forensic pathologist Werner Spitz for accusing him of his sister's murder. The parties settled the lawsuits by 2019.

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