I am relatively new to this forum and haven't read most of the thousands of posts on the JBR case. I do have my own opions, of course! I do have a question for those who believe the parents killed JBR and did the cover-up. IF they did it, then why did they leave her body in the house when they knew it would be found so soon? Why not get rid of the body that night to correspond to the "kidnapping" of the ransom note?
ShadyLadySleuth,
Interesting question. Some have answered it in different ways, e.g. there was snow on the ground or due to the concept of
Undoing there was a reluctance to dispose of JonBenet in such a brutal manner.
As ever there is another explanation. One that depends upon pragmatism, a good olde american philosphy, basically time was limited, someone had decided to change a previous staging to one that represented an abduction.
So consider the Ramsey household alike a Houdini show, JonBenet has to vanish because she has been abducted, how can this be achieved? Well just make the body invisible, how? Hide her in the wine-cellar, latch it, and hope nobody finds her. Meanwhile the Ramsey's, excluding Burke, can fly away to Atlanta!
Why not get rid of the body that night to correspond to the "kidnapping" of the ransom note?
Because time constraints meant this could not be done. Consider
Dumping or in criminological parlance
Relocating the body would still raise questions relating to the abduction, e.g. why abduct a girl, then discard her at point X from the crime-scene.
The wine-cellar is someones attempt to fabricate a staged crime-scene that they think will put
distance between themselves and and other persons involved!
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