There has been a recent resurgence of public interest in the unsolved 1996 murder of 6-year-old beauty pageant queen JonBenet Ramsey in Boulder, Colorado, whose family were falsely accused as the prime suspects in her horrific death for more than a decade.

Joe Berlinger, the director and producer of a new docuseries that reexamines the case, admitted in an interview that he initially believed the incorrect assertions of police and the media that blamed the family, according to The Independent.

However, after doing a "deep dive" of his own on what was known of the brutal incident, he dedicated himself to finding and exposing the truth and clearing the reputation of the falsely maligned Ramsey family.

New Netflix special reexamines the JonBenet Ramsey case

Berlinger, an Academy Award-nominated director and producer whose work typically focuses on cases in which individuals have been wrongfully accused or convicted, is the creative force behind the new three-part docuseries on Netflix titled "Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey."

The series aims to highlight how "Police missteps and a media circus derailed the JonBenét Ramsey murder case" as well as chronicle the family's "decades-long quest for justice."

In an October interview with Deadline ahead of the series premiere in November, Berlinger said, "Many people think they know the JonBenét Ramsey story and have played armchair detective for three decades, often callously pointing a finger at the very people who suffered such an unthinkable loss."

"Through unprecedented access and a comprehensive multi-year investigation, we reveal the deep flaws in how the case was originally handled, resulting in a sea of conspiracy theories that nearly destroyed the Ramsey family for a second time," he added.

Berlinger admits he initially "fell for" the false accusations against the family

According to Berlinger's more recent interview with The Independent, he himself initially believed the police and media claims that the Ramsey family was responsible for JonBenet's tragic murder, in which she was found to have been sexually assaulted, beaten, and strangled in the basement of the family's home on the day after Christmas in 1996.

"Back then I fell for it. And I’m embarrassed that I fell for it, because I had just finished Paradise Lost, which is all about wrongful conviction -- but I had a two-year-old daughter at home, and I kind of bought into the media hype," Berlinger said with a reference to his film that helped exonerate the so-called West Memphis Three who'd been wrongly convicted of murdering three younger boys.

"And I thought to myself, 'Gee, my daughter, my two-year-old, is very cute, and I bet when she’s six, she’ll be really cute; I would never put her into a beauty pageant' -- and I had a bunch of judgment about that," he continued. "Over time, as I became more familiar with the case, it became illogical."

Berlinger says he hopes to "pressure" the police to "do the right thing"

According to The Independent, the Netflix special follows the work of skeptical detectives and reporters who disagreed with the decade-long media-accepted and perpetuated theory put forward by the Boulder Police Department that JonBenet's parents or older brother were the killers, even though DNA evidence had quickly removed them from suspicion.

As it turns out, the police sat on the evidence of the Ramsey family's innocence for months, if not years, while at the same time the department is accused of failing to properly test other DNA evidence recovered from the crime scene.

"With the advances in DNA technology, I think this case can actually be solved," Berlinger told the outlet. "And so I will be honest and say one of my goals of this show is to pressure Boulder police to finally do the right thing … the Ramsey family has been pounding the table for several years for additional DNA testing."

"I’m blessed that I can say that … my work has been the catalyst for six people being released from prison. So I am deep in the wrongful conviction space, and there are certain patterns that make wrongful convictions happen that I see in this case," he added. "Just like in the West Memphis case … what you often see in wrongful conviction cases is kind of a small-town police force that’s not experienced enough to handle the crime that gets locked into an idea early on and can’t move that tunnel vision -- and this is what you see in this case."