BR was sent to the White's very early that morning- hours before JB was "found" and JR was caught trying to make his plane getaway. The reason for sending BR to the White's was to get him out of the house. There are a few reasons for wanting him out of the house: one was to keep LE away from him. Another was to keep him from doing or saying anything that might be incriminating. Another was to prevent any LE from observing his demeanor or wanting to question him, and then there was also the very understandable desire to not have him around when his sister's body was brought upstairs.
So sending him to the White's is a totally separate issue from planning the getaway. I still maintain they never intended to leave BR in Boulder when they fled Colorado. They would have picked him up at the Whites or had the Whites drive him to the airport.
DeeDee249,
So sending him to the White's is a totally separate issue from planning the getaway.
Apparently so. But he was
absent from the house when John phoned for his plane.
John likely removed Burke for all the above reasons. Now whether John or someone else found JonBenet, John would have factored this event into Plan A, so he had some intended course of action to undertake, on the discovery of JonBenet. Patently part of Plan A was to flee the state of Colorado, hence his instructions to his pilot.
So in executing Plan A John deliberately removed Burke, at this point John cannot predict if he will ever see Burke again. John might have been arrested never to leave the penal system again!
Since Plan A was not working out quite as intended, John at the first opportunity, and matching a staged homicide profile, went and found JonBenet.
His next move was to phone instructions to his pilot, so assuming Burke is innocent, John has nothing to gain by going over to the White's. I reckon given the seriousness and gravity of the situation John and Patsy would have left Colorado ASAP, without Burke, leaving JonBenet to decompose.
Now if they were willing to abandon JonBenet's body, they would probably have left Burke with the White's reasoning we can arrange for him to travel to Atlanta or Peru, at a later date.
John by removing Burke has already signaled he has a Plan A. And three parts of it have been executed e.g. 1. JonBenet hidden in the wine-cellar, 2. Patsy dialling 911 about the ransom note, and 3. Burke removed from any fallout.
Part four was nobody finds JonBenet, part five was the police leaving to search locally for JonBenet, part six John and Patsy flee Colorado.
So it is only parts four and five that vary if it had turned out as John had estimated, he would have left along with Patsy for Atlanta.
Given Fleet Whites suspicion regarding John and the
discovery of JonBenet. Would he have simply handed Burke over, maybe, would John have told Fleet
Hey we are bailing out of Colorado, and we would like Burke to come too or would he just tell Fleet
We have some very important business matters to attend to in Atlanta, these are so important, we are just leaving JonBenet behind?
Of course not, going anywhere near Fleet White whilst attempting to flee is to risk Plan A failing at the final step.
In all probability John and Patsy fully intended to leave Burke behind just like we
know they intended to abandon JonBenet to the process of decomposition.
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