Part - 5 [:laugh:Tying :dance: It All Together]
Okay, so lets look now at what weve got so far in a continuance of my previous Part-numbered posts.
Four knots: each one different, but with similarities in the lack of complexity of three, and a strikingly different fourth knot tied onto a stick broken on both ends, but which we know is the middle section of a twice broken paintbrush. The difference between the three as opposed to the fourth indicates to me that it was probably tied by someone other than the person who tied the others. Lets consider for now that it is therefore part of the staging that was done after the fact.
Remember: What we are doing here is looking only at evidence we are sure of that we have to try and determine what happened to cause JonBenets death. Forget for the time being about ransom notes, fiber evidence, peoples behavior, 911 calls, and everything else that happened afterward and may be staging or simply reactions to what happened. Look only at what we know.
So, while we are looking at what we know, we have to bring in another piece of evidence -- the body that was on one end of the cord. If you look at the picture of the
right side of JonBenets face, you see the ligature still attached with her hair and a gold chain caught under it. Youll also see on her neck below this a whitish, blanched area with reddened areas above and below it, as well as a darkened red area about in the center of her neck which, because of the lack of clarity in the picture, we cant tell with certainty if it is an abraded area or a localized grouping of petichiae.
Nevertheless, what is evident is that this blanched area is where the strangulation occurred that probably actually caused her death. (
I know what youre thinking: What about the head wound? -- Well get there. Be patient.) This is the area that
rashomon pointed out in an earlier post as possibly being from the infamous double wrap (
which I believe is a red herring, and Ill explain later so as not to get too far sidetracked for now).
To explain the physiology of blanching in my unprofessional, nonmedical way, from what I have learned, the blanching occurs when pressure is applied forcing the blood out of the surface of the skin. After death, because of a lack of blood circulation, the surface blood does not return, leaving this area that is whiter than the rest of the skin surface. This is what a coroner or an experienced detective would look for as an apparent cause of death if there was no ligature or other means of strangulation left behind. And by experience detective, I mean one whose first reaction when a dead body is produced is not to immediately ask everyone present to hold hands in a circle around the deceased and say the Lords prayer and then sing the first two stanzas of "Kumbaya". (
Okay, I threw in that last part -- I dont want to add to all the misinformation thats already out there or start a new rumor.)
So, I will assert here that I believe this blanched area is where the cord actually strangled her causing her death. If you look at the angle at which it rises from the front of her neck toward the back, you see it is going upward. This is what we talked about in earlier posts about the V pattern that would be formed pointing in the direction the ligature was pulled. This pattern would indicate how the person was strangled and has been written about extensively by Brent Turvey. If you have followed me up to this point, and with the knowledge we have from our other readings, by now you should see that (
get ready
Im gonna say it
) JonBenet was hanged.
I know this goes against everything a lot of people have speculated, theorized, postulated, and professed, but believe me on this -- it is what happened. This is what the known evidence tells us. Now we have to figure out how it happened, and why it happened. Now we have to go beyond the things we know, and figure a scenario that will take into account all that we do know with reasonable certainty and fit with everything else we know. This is where we step away a bit from the clear evidence and get into theory.
Ill leave this at that for now for you to think about before I post my theory later. Lets see if anyone else comes up with the same thing I think happened before I post it. Remember that a lot of what we think we know may be staging or simply red herrings. Look at what the evidence tells us, and then the other things that are so perplexing about this will all make sense if we are right.
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