And he was left handed and his handwriting looked remarkably similar to Patsy's handwriting and he used phrases that Patsy was known to use in that note....
Not buying it. |
Has the layout ever been revealed for the house like where the bedrooms were situated? We're the kids rooms side by side or next to the parents room? |
Smit's evidence in the video suggests an intruder may have tried to put JB inside a suitcase. The Smit video also, horribly, suggests that JB was conscious when garrotted. The half moon bruises on her neck indicate her fingernails, trying to pull off the garrotte. The head wound may have been a final, parting blow to ensure she died. I thought it was Patsy too (or she was covering for Burke) but after watching the Smit video, I am convinced otherwise. And he doesn't say it *couldn't* have been the parents. Just that there was enough evidence of a possible intruder that the lead should have been seriously pursued. |
And watch the Smit video where the talks about the phrases used.... "she will die".... guy knew what he was intending to do. |
The parents room was on a floor by itself and you had to go down the staircase to get to the kitchen. The intruder knew when the parents woke up they would have to go by the note. The house was huge and parents room not near kids room. |
Steve Thonas wrote the worst book ever about the case. He was blind to the fact that it was probably an intruder. |
If anyone tried to put that child into a suitcase it was Patsy. The parents were the ones planning to take a trip. Maybe at one point Patsy was considering using the ransom note as their excuse for getting themselves and their son out of the area. It would make perfect sense for them to leave and go to the airport carrying suitcases, right? But maybe the little girl's body didn't fit in the suitcase like she thought it would. The whole thing is just so twisted. I just can not believe that there was an intruder inside that dark home for hours silently killing, sexually abusing, going up/down 3 flights of stairs, writing a long winded ransom note.....and not leaving a fingerprint, a hair, a footprint. What happened to that child was extremely brutal. Somebody snapped. |
He thought it was someone living in the house too? |
if you watch the video you'll see that they left a lot of evidence but the Boulder police were so tunnel visioned toward the parents that the evidence wasn't pursued. The note was likely written before she died and JB's room was next to a guest room where the detective thought a killer could have hidden out; perfect vantage point to the driveway, next to stairs and JBs room and a disturbed dust ruffle suggests it is possible someone hid under the bed. 100% convinced the parents didn't do it and the Boulder police are idiots. |
Maybe she planned to use the suitcase but by the time she went to place JonBenet inside of it rigor mortis had started to set in and her body was not flexible. |
The parents didn't cooperate with the police. That is huge to me. They also lied about random things when they were finally interviewed. They got off because John was rich and had access to a very good legal team. |
They got off because, though there is evidence pointing to them, there is not enough evidence to convict in a court of law, particularly when forensics could not conclusively establish what happened (murder weapon etc.) |
I'm astonished that they never even investigated the intruder theory. Huge mistake by the police. |
That's because the intruder theory really makes no sense, as has been reviewed ad nauseam on this site. The layout of the house, the timeline (*hours* spent in the house while the family was sleeping?), the lack of any evidence of entry, the Patsy-scribed ransom note collectively, details such as the child's favorite blanket retrieved from the dryer, really do rule out the logic of an intruder. |
Did you watch the Smit video? Enough clues to warrant an investigation IMO. |