Not when the victim is dead |
Her body would have told the tale. |
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Is it possible, since John had taken a sleeping pill, that he didn't even know exactly what happened? If Burke hit JB or she they were tussling and she fell and bashed her head, then he messed with her body, it's possible Patsy did just a slight staging of the body (wrist ties and tape) before writing the ransom note and only after that waking John up?
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Maybe. I wonder how carefully the playroom was tested for objects or furniture she might have hit her head on if she fell. The other question is what made the marks on her body. Although I find the train tracks theory pretty compelling, and it fits with the presumed location of the incident, one of the detectors identified a stun gun that could have made the marks. The Ramseys denied owning one but apparently a manual was found in the house and taken into evidence. Noone has said if it matched the only model that could have made those marks, but what if Burke was playing with it, zapped JB twice (in face then in back) and she fell hitting her head hard. That seems more likely than Burke smashing her in the head in a fit of range. Then he 'explored' her body and dragged it with the rope tool he made, or Patsy felt compelled to stage it to look like a sexual predator had done it to draw attention away from Burke. |
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I’m looking forward to finding out the truth about this murder.
UMC/wealthy white people don’t murder their kids. Really, they don’t. Some lower MC white men kill their spouses, but even that is rare and they end up on the national news. People who commit crimes also typically have a criminal history. Wherever there is smoke there is fire. No way that this family would be so successful without any family history or criminal activity and then one day they murder their only daughter. This case garnered a lot of interest because it’s a wealthy family and people like to eat the rich. |
And the pageant stuff. That was a huge part of this story to draw people in. |
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Thoughts after revisiting this story as an adult;
Patsy’s Chemo/Ovarian Cancer did irreversible harm to the older Blake. Patsy’s mother came to town during Chemo and was either more strict or more dismissive of the older child which created some downstream behavior issues and introverted tendencies that - coupled with possible ASD - would paint his behavior during this ordeal in a different light. I do not think anyone that size or age can move a body or tie ligature. The crime scene was bungled ONLY because the house was a mess. Looking through the crime scene photos and videotape I can’t help but notice that every inch of every room is covered in junk. It would be a great ordeal to go through 6500sqft and make sense of anything in this shape. Add the foot traffic of 12/26 and you’ve got a hell of a problem. It’s the intruder. Someone who knew this family and had broken into occupied homes before. They knew how to navigate floor plans. They knew there would be sufficient materials in the garage/kitchen. They were deranged enough to snack with and sit with their victim. Perhaps they even wrote the Ransom note after bludgeoning her head and before they killed her. Perhaps there was an attempt to escape or something that set off the intruder, making the ransom note irrelevant. I’m hoping that 23&me/DNA databases can give us some closure sometime soon. |
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Ambidextrous mom obviously wrote the bogus ransom note, so she was covering it up. And she would have been indicted had they not lawyered up immediately.
All the rest of this babble is nonsense. |
She would have been indicted? Sure. You know what you’re talking about. |
Yes. That is more or less James kolar’s theory of what happened - he was the lead detective on the case in boulder in the early 2000s, years after it occurred. John took a sleeping pill on Christmas night and woke up the next morning to whatever Burke had done and how patsy had covered it up, and by that point patsy was calling the police. He knew something was off. Patsy was still in her clothes and makeup from the night prior when the police arrived. I believe based on a previous Reddit AMA that kolar still thinks John doesn’t know exactly what transpired that night. Burke and patsy were the most involved, and his theory was that John didn’t discover Jonbenet until after the time for the AM ransom call had passed, and he disappeared for about an hour. During that time he discovered her body and felt he had no choice but to participate in the coverup. |
“Like them”? Like, white well off and nice and had friends? Kind of like Chris Watts was? |
I meant explain in the sense of, the police and the prosecutors would have to explain. Clearly none of us can explain because it’s an unsolved mystery that will likely never be solved for the reasons I listed. |
It did, it showed prior sexual abuse. |
I have some unfortunate news to share with you…. |
She actually WAS indicted, if you’ll recall. But prosecutors declined to take the case on. |