No it did not. That’s reddit nonsense. It’s clear where your “facts” are coming from. |
There wasn’t enough evidence, it was all circumstantial. But the PP seems to live in an alternate reality of how this should have played out immediately. But for the bungled crime scene which is always going to be an issue. It wasn’t b/c they “lawyered up” which is what any thinking person would do. |
| The only reason the parents weren’t brought to trial in this case (and they were indicted by the grand jury, which people forget), is because they were rich and white without prior criminal history. If this was a black family on welfare in Baltimore, with this amount of circumstantial evidence, the parents would have been in jail before the end of the week. And it’s because there are so many people out there like one of the PPs on this thread who truly believe that UMC white people don’t ever kill their wives or kids, when in reality, they probably just get away with it much more frequently because, as the PP says, “they don’t fit the profile”. |
First of all, if you watch any crime stuff on Netflix etc. UMC/wealthy people absolutely do murder their family. Second of all, abuse certainly occurs within wealthy families as well. Thirdly, wealthy people are certainly not immune to psychiatric problems and developmental disorders. Lastly, the most plausible theory in this case is not that one of her parents killed her. It’s that her brother, who very likely had an untreated psychiatric disorder, is the one who attacked and ultimately killed her - whether it was intentional or premeditated or not. The parents (primarily the mother) covered it up and they got away with it because they were wealthy enough to hire top lawyers and publicists and interfere with the DA. |
Which is why the prosecutors didn’t bring it to trial, you’re correct. But they were indicted. And I would bet that if they were poor nobodies with brown skin and a prior rap sheet of low level theft or low level drug charges, they’d have been fried. |
I know you think you have it all figured out but there are too many holes in that theory to make it so obvious to many which is why the parents have never been arrested nor the boy. |
I don’t think I have it all figured out. It’s just a lot more rational than thinking an intruder did it and lingered in the house for hours while JB hemorrhaged to death, taking their time to defile her body with toys and paintbrushes from the basement and other materials that patsy had purchased from stores, and ultimately write several drafts of a long ransom note with materials in the kitchen. Not to mention feeding jonbenet pineapple shortly before all of this, staging an abduction after she was already dead, the fact that patsy was still in her clothes and makeup from the night before and that Burke was heard on the 911 call despite the parents claiming he was asleep. The most logical explanation is that the family was involved. We will never know exactly what happened unless Burke talks someday, which he won’t. Burke also likely does not know exactly what his mother did to cover it up. |
Maybe. I also think the most likely thing is that it was an accident of one kind or another, then covered up out of fear and embarrassment (especially if Burke had played doctor with the body and used the garrote-like thing to drag her). |
I agree with you. There is just too much circumstantial evidence against the family. If it was an intruder it would have to be such a convoluted story with so much coincidence. Like she was up eating pineapple in the middle of the night with her brother coincidentally , and the intruder was able to find all these murder and ransom note supplies around the house without leaving any fingerprints or hairs or other touch DNA, and Patsy happened to just put on the same clothes as last night when she woke up? Like it could have happened this way- no one knows!- but man that’s a lot of coincidence |
They were not indicted. |
Yes they were. It has been widely reported. Here is the first link that came up when I searched but there are dozens more. https://www.courthousenews.com/indictment-of-jonbentramseys-parents-released/ |
This is not Reddit nonsense. Here is one link, there are many others. The coroner said she had sustained both recent and past abuse. http://web.dailycamera.com/extra/ramsey/1999/916rams.html |
It was recommended. That’s it. Read it. |
Some of what you were saying is misinformation though. The duct tape used to keep her mouth taped and the rope that was found in the guestroom next to her room were never sourced to the family‘s house. I don’t believe it was a random intruder. But one of the problems with this case is that it was clear the family was exposed to a lot of questionable people. The pageant photographer pedophile, the town Santa who would come to the family parties in the home who had a very questionable past and other stalkers that noticed her because of the pageants. And the family history of leaving the doors unlocked, not fixing a broken window and having contractors in and out of the house constantly, etc. doesn’t help either. |
Yes, the grand jury handed down an indictment and the state declined to prosecute. You’re arguing semantics. The state did keep the grand jury recommendation a secret as best they could for a while, so it wasn’t widely known at first, but it happened. |