DENVER (CBS4) – John Ramsey says he regrets letting his daughter JonBenet compete in beauty pageants.

Ramsey made his comments on a morning show as he talked about his new book, “The Other Side of Suffering.”

JonBenet was found dead in the Ramsey home in Boulder on Christmas Day in 1996. It took 12 years for the district attorney’s office to officially clear the Ramseys.

Ramsey’s wife Patsy died in 2006.

Ramsey says JonBenet’s competing in pageants may have drawn the attention of a killer.