The convicted pedophile who claimed he accidentally killed 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey, has gone missing from the halfway house he was court-ordered to reside.
Gary Oliva, whose admission has once again been highlighted by a Netflix docuseries on the sensational unsolved murder, is now listed in Denver as a transient who only has to check in with cops once a month.
For the rest of the time, no one has any way of knowing where he is.
Gary must physically come into the police department every month and sign a document stating that he is a transient and listing the area or shelter where he stays, a Denver police detective told DailyMail.com.
But there is no way to be certain that he spends time or nights at the shelter.
He very well could be lying to us; its happened in the past with other sex offenders.
Oliva, 60, last checked in with cops in early November, in compliance with the rules.
He had been living in Room 12 of the Silver Spur motel in the East Colfax area of the Mile High City, but hasnt been seen there in months.
Convicted pedophile Gary Oliva, 60, who confessed over letters to accidentally killing 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey is on parole and court-ordered to stay at a motel where he can check in with police at their headquarters once a month
Oliva had been living in Room 12 of the Silver Spur motel in the East Colfax area of the Mile High City, but he hadnt been seen there in months
Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenéts body was found at her home in Boulder, Colorado on December 26, 1996
A resident at the seedy, 15-room facility, which houses at least two other sex offenders told DailyMail.com: He kept to himself and did not socialize with the other tenants.
He was strange even by the standards of the tenants at the motel. He talked to himself a lot.
Then one day we all realized he was gone, and we have not seen him since. Its like he disappeared off the face of the earth.
Even court documents issued in May for trespass described him as transient.
Oliva sensationally confessed in several 2019 letters from prison that he had accidentally killed JonBenét over Christmas 1996, first reported by DailyMail.com
I never loved anyone like I did JonBenét and yet I let her slip and her head bashed in half and I watched her die, he wrote to his high school buddy Michael Vail.
It was an accident. Please believe me. She was not like the other kids.
He confessed to other killings, writing: Im a serial murderer. I have a disorder that cannot be stopped. Ive told the detectives all the murders I can remember. All of them pan out. They just cant prove any of them.
Oliva just finished serving his eight-year sentence for child pornography charges in January
Although Oliva is listed under the sex offender registry as residing at the seedy Colfax Avenue motel, which was court-mandated, a recent trespassing charge listed him as a transient
According to the Netflix documentary Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey?, when police went to find Oliva, they discovered his tent was full of pictures of JonBenét
Oliva was registered as a sex offender at an address just ten blocks from the Ramsey family home where JonBenéts body was discovered
In another letter, he wrote: JonBenét completely changed me and removed all evil from me. Just one look at her beautiful face, her glowing beautiful skin, and her divine God-body, I realized I was wrong to kill other kids. Yet by accident she died and it was my fault.
At the time Oliva was serving an eight-year prison sentence for having child pornography on his phone. He also had hundreds of pictures of JonBenét.
Oliva disappeared from the Silver Spur motel several months ago
He is on parole until February 1, 2027, according to a parole agreement obtained by DailyMail.com
Oliva had also previously been sentenced for sexually molesting a seven-year-old girl and was jailed for 17 months for trying to strangle his mother with a telephone cord.
The convicted pedophile was interviewed by police in Boulder after music publicist Vail handed the letters over, but was never charged as his DNA did not match that at the scene of the little pageant queens home.
The Netflix documentary, Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey?, has raised the prospect that Oliva should still be considered a suspect because the DNA evidence is unreliable.
According to the documentary, Olivas name was mentioned to police very early in the investigation.
He had sexually assaulted a neighbor in Oregon and, living rough, ended up in Boulder at the time JonBenét was killed. He was using an address ten blocks from the Ramsey home.
Oliva said he killed JonBenét Ramsey by accident. He wrote, I let her slip and her head bashed in half and I watched her die. It was an accident
Describing JonBenéts death, sex offender Oliva wrote: I let the one I love die in my arms helplessly watching the life drain from her eyes as all light went out
Oliva made the shocking admission in letters he recently wrote from prison to former high school friend Michael Vail who submitted them to the police after reading the headlines on JonBenéts murder
When the sheriff arrives, they will find you dead: An Oregon Department of Corrections report describes how Oliva tried to strangle his mother with a telephone cord in May 1991
Vail told DailyMail.com in 2019 that Oliva had called him in tears on the night of December 26, 1996 – the night that JonBenéts body was discovered.
He was sobbing and said, "I hurt a little girl," Vail said.
I tried to get more information out of him. The only other thing he told me was that he was in the Boulder, Colorado area.
On December 27 I read on the front page of my local newspaper Girl, 6, slain in Boulder, Colorado. I knew I had to alert the police, he added.
I immediately called the Boulder Police Department and told them what I knew about Gary and what he had told me just days earlier. They didnt get back to me.
Kurt Pillard, the investigations commander at the Colorado Springs Police Department, confirmed in the documentary that a friend of Olivas said the pedophile had called him in a distraught state after JonBenét was murdered.
Cold Case featured disturbing TV interviews with Oliva, from the time of the killing, in which he salivates over JonBenéts appearances in beauty pageants.
The deranged pedophile said: When you see the footage of her in her little cowboy suit going I want to be a cowboys sweetheart, Ive never seen anything like it.
Crime scene photo at the Ramsey family home showed the open basement window which investigators believe JonBenéts killer may have used. Her body was found under a blanket in a neighboring room that had been used as the wine cellar
JonBenét pictured with her mother Patsy and brother Burke Ramsey at a photo studio on August 6, 1990
At the time, he denied being involved in her death but bizarrely claimed that JonBenét came to me after she was killed and revealed herself to me.
But after Olivas admission that he had just hurt a little girl, Boulder police took a hard look at him.
According to the documentary, when police went to find Oliva, they discovered his tent was full of pictures of JonBenét.
But when his DNA did not match that found at the scene, he was ruled out.
The DNA evidence in the case has long proved problematic and Boulder police have been heavily criticized for mishandling the investigation.
In 2015, former Boulder police chief Mark Beckner admitted crime scene evidence may have been mishandled on a Reddit forum.
The crime scene was not handled properly and this later affected the investigation, he said.
Nobody has ever been charged in the 28 years since JonBenéts lifeless body was discovered by her father John Ramsey in the basement of the family home.
The director of Netflixs new JonBenét Ramsey three-part documentary, Joe Berlinger, believes the family of the little girl is innocent
JonBenéts lifeless body was discovered by her father John Bennett Ramsey in the basement of the family home
JonBenéts half-brother John Andrew Ramsey said in his docuseries interview that police had to go deeper with the DNA samples and their methods could have led suspects to be ruled out
Detectives believe she was murdered the night before on Christmas Day through either a blow to the head or strangulation with a garrote.
Cold Case claims that the killer would be a very specific pedophile who had likely seen one of JonBenéts beauty pageants.
Multiple experts said in the documentary that there may well be a problem with the DNA that was collected from the crime scene, which was contaminated due to a catalog of police errors.
Charlie Brennan, a journalist who has covered the case from the start, said in the film that the DNA in this case has been problematic from the beginning.
Michael Tracey, a TV producer who made one of the first major documentaries about the case and has been a staunch believer in JonBenéts parents innocence, said that if the DNA is faulty then a lot of people would still be suspects.
JonBenéts stepbrother John Andrew Ramsey told the documentary makers that if the DNA isnt as valuable as we think then weve been ruling people out for the wrong reasons.
Everybody should be back on the table, he added.
John Andrew Ramsey urged police to go deeper with the samples from the crime scene and sort the DNA we have today and make more sense of it.
JonBenéts father John demanded that police finally sample five or six items that were taken from the crime scene but have never been analyzed.
He stated he wants items that have been tested to be resampled due to advances in technology and then compared with the public genealogy database to look for a potential match, as has been done in numerous other cold cases.