THE family of JonBenet Ramsey still hopes the killer of the 6-year-old beauty queen will be found.

Prosecutors finally cleared JonBenet Ramsey’s parents and brother of the six-year-old beauty queen’s killing in 1996, telling the family they were “deeply sorry” for putting them under a cloud of suspicion for more than a decade.

For a moment, it seemed the decade-old mystery surrounding the slaying of a child beauty queen had been solved. But authorities have cautioned against rushing to judge the schoolteacher who made a stunning confession that he killed JonBenet Ramsey.

MOST Americans knew JonBenet Ramsey only in death — as the blonde-haired little girl in the pink cowgirl outfit, bouncing across the stage with a million-dollar smile.