I did an embarrassing amount of googling on the jonbenet case after reading this thread. It's pretty clear that patsy wrote the fake ransom letter. That doesn't mean she killed her, but she wrote the letter. It's also most likely that the father didn't know anything about anything until he woke up and read the letter, and immediately knew Patsy had written it. Again, that doesn't mean she killed her, just that she wrote the letter.
Also, the killing was not sadistic and there was no torture. The body was actually found to have been treated rather gently. The binding of her hands was too loose to even have restrained her. The sexual evidence can be explained by a number of innocuous theories, including that the death was accidental by Patsy after jonbenet had wet her bed and Patsy wiped her roughly before some "accident" occurred in the bathroom causing a fatal head wound. |
Ramsey detective again. As for the brother: 9 isn't too young for anything, if you're disturbed enough. However, after lots of profiling and professional interviews, I don't think the brother was ever found to fit the profile of someone capable of INTENTIONALLY doing something like that. (Obviously he could have accidentally done something and the mother covered it up).
Interestingly, jonbenet was found to have eaten pineapple a few hours before her death. Both parents stated they didn't recall ever feeding her pineapple. In a photo at the house on the day she died (this was Christmas, so lots of photos) there is a bowl of pineapple on the table with a spoon in it. The only fingerprints on the spoon belonged to the brother. I dare you guys not to google this further! Dunh-dunh-dunh! |
I disagree. The Turton case is very, very fishy. It sounds like the beginning of a Scott Turow novel. |
Bravo pp, mystery solved! |
She could have eaten the pineapple with her fingers... |
Who killed Morgan Harrington? |
That's what I thought, too. |
I don't buy this theory at all. Not only that, so little information was ever written/televised about the brother, I think it's wrong to accuse a then 9 year old of being involved. |
Good point, but I think the more ominous assumption is that, even if she used her hands, the brother was eating pineapple with his sister only hours before she died. Interesting, because I believe he never admitted to that and was supposed to have been asleep and not have seen her since the night before. Dunh-dunh-dunh!!! |
Did he help set out the spoons or spoon some pineapple for her or for someone else who could have given it to his sister? |
Back in the Dark Ages of the Internet I read a web page that convinced me it was the brother. I have utterly no proof of this, but it is one explanation why the mother might have written the ransom note despite her seeming not guilty. |
No, the point is that the parents denied ever having any pineapple involvement whatsoever. No affiliation with pineapple during the time in question. The parents also claimed that the brother was asleep this whole time (when her death, and supposed abduction-gone-awry occurred) yet the pineapple evidence proves otherwise. It's not so much about the pineapple, but the cover up and lies around it. |
Yeah, I don't get where this is going. |
What would the brother's motive be if he did it? How does a 9 yo know about a garrote? |
I believe the theory is that the cause of death was the head wound, which could have been accidental. The garrote would have been after the fact to make it look like an abduction killing. If the brother inflicted the head wound (intentionally or accidentally) Patsy stepped in to cover it up. The garrote was fashioned using a paintbrush from Patsy's art set an the bristle part was discovered in its place (in a place unlikely discoverable by an intruder) while half of the stick part was never discovered. |