Memories of a murder led to making of Netflix film Casting JonBenét
When she was growing up in Australia, Kitty Green became obsessed with the 1996 murder of six-year-old pageant queen JonBenét Ramsey in Boulder, Colorado.
“I was 12 or 13 watching it on television and the pageantry and the whole thing was so amazing to me,” the rising young director of Netflix film Casting JonBenét recalls. “I’d never seen anything like it. I thought that was what every American family was like, so I had this very bizarre idea of America. After that every time I met someone from Colorado I’d ask, ‘Who killed JonBenét Ramsey?’ And they would always have a different reaction. I met a guy from Boulder on a ski lift in Japan and he was like, ‘My God I don’t want to be chatting about that.’ But he had this crazy drug ring theory and he then went on for 10 minutes explaining it to me. I was like, ‘Wow, there’s something there’.”
