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.