And no, I think someone else was the DA there when the case first broke.
If you look around, there are probably hundreds of unsolved murders across the country, and this one is nowhere near as important as Vince Foster or Chandra Levy, because at least some of the perps in those two were very much involved in government.
You are correct justiceseeker93. Alex Hunter was the Boulder County prosecutor at the time of the JonBenet murder. Lacey ran against the perceived failure by Hunter.