Who did you think killed JonBenet?

[Anonymous]

Their weird inattention to the ransom note was really odd. That was the only clue as to what had happened to their daughter and Patsy hadn't even read it? Neither one of them attempted to warn the 911 operator about the threats made in the note?

I understand that seeing a note like that would be jarring as hell and I can certainly understand going into panic mode when they saw that JonBenet's bed was empty.

But to not even fully read the one clue as to her whereabouts that they had? Makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

The note is so off. It was rambling and bizarre. And it does seem like it was written by a religious woman which is so odd. She instructed them to be "well rested" which is weird. Almost like it was an in code note from patsy to her husband. This case is just so head scratching. I do wonder if there had been sexual abuse. It's odd that both kids still had accidents at 6 and 9, right? Mine don't at 4 and 3 and I think that's normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still don't know how an intruder could have been all over that home and left so little evidence of himself behind.

Just seems unlikely.

Real life cases aren't like episodes of CSI. There is frequently little physical evidence in a case.

This individual (presumably) cracked JonBenet's skull. Carried her down two flights of stairs. Sexually assaulted her and strangled her using items collected from around the house. Unwrapped Christmas packages to find underwear to redress her in. Sat at a desk in the home and wrote a long winded ransom note on a notepad and with a pen belonging to the house....

Oh, and supposedly squeezed through a small window in the basement leaving no footprints, no threads from their clothes, no hair....

Nope. Not buying it.

The underwear was in her room

[Anonymous]

The sheriff who wrote the book Foreign Faction with an AMA that was posted here earlier seems to think that the son Burke was responsible for the murder, and maybe one or more parents were responsible for the cover up. He seems to suggest that there are nine year old boys that could have done this sort of thing, no doubt pretty broken ones.

It makes me wonder what he has been up to since then. If he has just been hanging out with his dad and his therapist mourning his sister and trying to make sense of his life, it seems unlikely to me that he was the murderer.

[Anonymous]

I think it was an intruder. Everyone in town knew who Jon Benet was. She was in a Christmas parade as Little Miss Christmas. The Ramseys had giant Christmas parties and their house had been on a local tour of homes for a charity. Every sexual predator in town could have access to that home. There was a suitcase under the open window in the basement. There was a footprint of a boot found at the crime scene. JB was tortured by someone obsessed with her, little girls, and asphyxiation. The Ransom note was to throw people off. It was placed on the steps that came directly from the parents bedroom only. Mom could not get downstairs to the kitchen without stepping on the note. The killer did it to by himself/herself time. The same reason that a mysterious 911 call was placed a few nights before the murder from the Ramsey home. The house was filled with people for the big Christmas party. The police showed up at the door. No one claimed responsibility. The killer was trying to figure out how much time he/she would have to get out of house before police came. I think the McReynolds were involved. They had tickets to fly to Spain/Portugal just days after the murder. Santa was obsessed with JB and his wife wrote that play about a woman held in a basement and tortured. Their own daughter was kidnapped the same day 22 years prior. They would say they wanted to be left alone after the murders and live their quiet lives and then Santa showed up outside the a Today show trying to get on tv. He could not stay away from crime.

[Anonymous]

There was a case inVA years ago where a sibling killed his brother on accident was it? And the parents hid the body in the backyard. Does anyone else remember that? Did they say the child was kidnapped?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The note is so off. It was rambling and bizarre. And it does seem like it was written by a religious woman which is so odd. She instructed them to be "well rested" which is weird. Almost like it was an in code note from patsy to her husband. This case is just so head scratching. I do wonder if there had been sexual abuse. It's odd that both kids still had accidents at 6 and 9, right? Mine don't at 4 and 3 and I think that's normal.

It is not uncommon just because your kids don't have accidents. Plenty of kids do. But surely you know that? Plus, it runs in families so not surprising that both would be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The sheriff who wrote the book Foreign Faction with an AMA that was posted here earlier seems to think that the son Burke was responsible for the murder, and maybe one or more parents were responsible for the cover up. He seems to suggest that there are nine year old boys that could have done this sort of thing, no doubt pretty broken ones.

It makes me wonder what he has been up to since then. If he has just been hanging out with his dad and his therapist mourning his sister and trying to make sense of his life, it seems unlikely to me that he was the murderer.

I don't think that Burke, at the age of 9, could have done this to his sister - it was just too much. When JonBenet got injured and had to go to the hospital, Patsy may have found it easier to tell the medical staff that Burke had injured her. What are they going to do to a little kid, right?

All the urinary tract infections. The pageants. The wetting of the bed. It just seems that JonBenet was under a lot of pressure for a 6 year old. I'm sure that there almost had to be some friction between mom and daughter. Can you imagine a 6 year old sitting perfectly still for make up and hair. Being patient through dress fittings. Going through pageants and possibly even rehearsals. And all the posing for pictures....and then all the typical kid stuff. Fighting with her brother, not eating her dinner, wetting her bed, leaving clothes laying on the floor, being sassy sometimes....all the little frustrations adding up.

It's possible that Patsy lost her cool and hurt JonBenet so badly that she couldn't blame it on Burke. Rather than see her own life unravel, rather than lose her image as a doting wife and mother, her status within the community, her many good friends and the love of her husband...Patsy exercised damage control. She couldn't undo what she had done but she could prevent things from getting even worse by covering up what happened. On some level (I suspect) John is aware of this.

They may have never even talked about it preferring to just go with the more bearable story of what happened, adjusting details to fit as needed. So much better to believe that a demented and evil Santa, a crazed and evil intruder did this to their precious little girl.

[Anonymous]

My son is 6 and still wets his bed sometimes. Is it that odd?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son is 6 and still wets his bed sometimes. Is it that odd?

No, I think what's really odd is Burke's defecation problems that have been reported.

[Anonymous]

I think that both of those kids were under a lot of stress growing up with Patsy as a mom.

[Anonymous]

I am literally physically incapable of giving a rat's rear end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son is 6 and still wets his bed sometimes. Is it that odd?

My 6yo son also still wets the bed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Their weird inattention to the ransom note was really odd. That was the only clue as to what had happened to their daughter and Patsy hadn't even read it? Neither one of them attempted to warn the 911 operator about the threats made in the note?

I understand that seeing a note like that would be jarring as hell and I can certainly understand going into panic mode when they saw that JonBenet's bed was empty.

But to not even fully read the one clue as to her whereabouts that they had? Makes no sense.

Didn't need to read it b/c she wrote it. She already knew JB was dead when she called 911.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son is 6 and still wets his bed sometimes. Is it that odd?

My 6yo son also still wets the bed.

I don't think that bed wetting is that unusual in a 6 year old. My own kids stopped having accidents around 3 1/2 or so but it wasn't because I did something "right" as a parent.

I don't think that bed wetting, in and of itself, is necessarily that unusual or a sign of anything. But with JonBenet there were other signs - repeat urinary tract infections, injuries that required hospital care. It may have all been coincidental but it does seem as though something could have been going on there too.