The JonBenét Murder House: Who Lives There Today & More

The murder of JonBenét Ramsey is back in the news due to Netflix‘s upcoming true-crime miniseries, but the current occupants of the Ramsey family’s now-infamous home likely won’t be tuning in.

Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen star as JonBenét’s parents, Patsy and John Ramsey, in The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey, which premieres December 10 on Netflix. The series will follow the events of 6-year-old JonBenét’s murder in the basement of the home, the mainstream media attention surrounding the case, and the ongoing questions surrounding the unsolved crime. (John and Patsy quickly became suspects in the crime, though neither was ever charged. Patsy died in 2006.)

The real-life couple purchased their home on the 700 block of 15th Street in Boulder, Colorado, in 1991, according to Boulder County assessor records. They paid $500,000 for the house. John and Patsy sold the house in 1998 to a group of investors for $650,000. According to the Denver Post, in 2001, the address was changed, and big trees and fencing were added to discourage snoopers.

Carol Schuller Milner and her husband, Timothy Milner, purchased the 1927 five-bedroom, 5.5-bathroom Tudor in 2004 for $1.05 million. They have put it on the market several times over the years as Carol found her time split between Colorado and California due to work projects.

“This has become a dark monument, this thing that was just sitting there, just a constant reminder of something horrible that happened, and I’m just a believer in undoing stuff like that. It is a wonderful place to live. It is home,” Carol said, per the Manchester Evening News.

Carol and Tim have unsuccessfully attempted to sell the residence on six separate occasions. They first listed it for sale in June 2008 for $2.68 million, then again in May 2009 for $2.29 million. In February 2011, the house went back on the market at $2.3 million, then again in 2014 at $1.98 million. According to the home’s Zillow listing, the property is not currently up for sale.

In November 2024, Carol told TMZ she and Timothy passed on an offer to be involved in the Netflix docuseries Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey?.

“We want nothing to do with the exploitation of that poor family,” Carol told the outlet, noting that she and her husband have turned down several Hollywood offers over the years, including one from Dr. Phil and another worth seven figures.

Carol first moved to Colorado from California when she was 16 to be on a ski team. She was a competitive ski racer, despite having lost a leg in a motorcycle accident when she was younger. In an interview with Westword, Carol explained that it was her faith that got her through that ordeal. It was also her faith that led her to purchase the infamous Ramsey home.

“I was like, ‘I don’t know about this,'” she said, referring to her first time looking around the house. “But I’ve never been one to back away from something just because it’s a challenge or odd. I’d been tutored by my father and my faith to be thinking outside the box constantly. In fact, one of his famous sayings is, ‘Make your box big enough for God to fit in,’ which I think is pretty cool.”

She added, “So I thought I couldn’t just not go in because of this silliness in my brain. And the minute we walked across the threshold, there was such a whoosh of peace and anticipation.”

Carol also opened up about telling her and Tim’s four children about the home’s history.

“I actually found out afterward that [the kids] been attending the same school where JonBenét had gone, a charter school in the area, even before we bought the house,” she shared. “But we did sit down with them, because we didn’t want them hearing about it from anybody else. We always believed in being honest with them.”

She continued, “So we said, ‘This happened here. Some really bad things happen in the world. But our faith says God’s bigger than the bad things. We can let the bad things have the last word or we can believe that restoration can come where bad things have happened. How do you guys feel about this?’ And they were like, ‘We think we should move in right away.’ They just felt this incredible empathy and compassion for the family and, of course, for JonBenét.”

The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey, Limited Series Premiere, December 10, Netflix