Thursday marked 28 years since six-year-old beauty pageant queen JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered in her family's Boulder, Colorado home, yet the case remains unsolved.

The victim's father, John Ramsey, remains hopeful that will soon change, however, as he revealed that he will meet with the Boulder Police chief next month to discuss a potential major breakthrough, the Daily Mail reported.

Ramsey is hopeful that the chief will enlist the aid of the FBI along with advanced DNA testing to finally identify his daughter's killer and solve the mystery of her brutal death.

Wants to use familial genealogy DNA databases

According to the U.S. Sun, John Ramsey signaled his optimism about a possible breakthrough in the case of his late daughter's unsolved murder in terms of Boulder's latest police chief and the prospects of advanced DNA testing during an interview at a crime convention in June.

"We are encouraged that the police will finally use the FBI's skills and resources to help solve our case," Ramsey said at the time, and noted, "We have been asking and praying for this over the past 28 years."

He also suggested that the FBI should be able to intercede in any child murder case in the country as a federal offense and lamented, "It's staggering that the FBI doesn't have the jurisdiction to take over the case."

Ramsey expressed hope that the use of advanced DNA testing procedures paired with private genealogy databases, which are substantially larger than the federal criminal database, would help identify the individual who murdered JonBenet in 1996.

"Suppose they now use cutting-edge DNA labs to develop a DNA profile in the proper format for familial genealogy research," he added. "In that case, we have pretty good odds of finding the killer's identity."

Meeting with chief set for January

More recently, Ramsey spoke with Fox News and revealed that he would soon join Boulder PD Chief Steve Redfearn for a sit-down meeting to discuss the status of the decades-old investigation and possible moves that could be made to finally conclude it.

"We have requested a meeting with Chief Redfearn in January. He said yep, absolutely, let's get together," Ramsey said. "We haven't scheduled a day yet, but we'll get that figured out."

"That's an important meeting. We're going to have a representative with us for one of those cutting-edge labs to explain what they can and can't do," he continued.

"Hopefully, he will accept their help," Ramsey added of Redfearn. "The reason I've done these media interviews -- Netflix, the documentary -- is to keep pressure on the police. We're not going to go away, folks."

Untested DNA could solve the case

JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered in the basement of her family's home on the morning after Christmas in 1996, and for more than a decade after that grisly discovery, her parents and older brother were the Boulder PD's prime suspects until DNA from an unidentified and unrelated male was found on several items taken from the crime scene.

Those items have reportedly never been adequately tested, but as revealed in the father's interviews, that may finally be about to change.