UK Guy - this post jiggled up my thoughts. BBM: Since there were fibers of the duvet cover (found in the Samsonite) discovered on both the front and back of JB's white star shirt, I wonder if we could consider that she was wrapped in this duvet at one time during the aftermath of the crime?
Would it have been possible that after the head bash, she was wrapped in the duvet cover, and there was an attempt to place her in the Samsonite to be taken out of the house? Maybe not much staging of her body had been done at this point, as you suggested should have been the case if she was going to be dumped.
But, it was discovered that putting her into the Samsonsite and taking her out of the house, for one reason or another, was not going to work out? And that's when the kidnapping ploy had to be altered to alerting police so her body could be discovered in the house? And, it if was going to be discovered in the house, the stager knew they would have to try to get rid of molestation evidence - with a jab, a cleansing, and additional redressing? Then rewrapped in the blanket from her bed to indicate that she had indeed been taken from her bed?
As a result, the duvet cover was hastily stashed in the Samsonite, and the suitcase was positioned near the window so it would be considered as another intruder tool?
Staging within staging in a couple of aspects.
midwest mama,
Yes, absolutely. Assuming of course that the fibers on the White Gap top match the duvet.
JR's account regarding the samsonite suitcase is suspect. I actually think JonBenet was originally hidden somewhere else in the house then moved to the wine-cellar. Probably because the R's realized she would eventually be found.
Part of my reasoning on this is the extensive redecorating and refurbishment of the house after the R's decamped the house. Patently removing any tell-tale forensic signs.
Anyway you have highlighted why my basic RDI theory is not inconsistent with DocG's theory. Except the claim PR dialled 911 when JR did not want this to happen.
I think there were three staging events, each possibly linked to an injury sustained by JonBenet?
The last staging, i.e. Abduction Scenario, suggests JonBenet should have been relocated to a disposal site. In a staged crime-scene this is not required, since the primary purpose of the staging is not to fake a crime-scene e.g. Long Island Homicide, but to remove and hide forensic evidence.
When the R's moved JonBenet, say from her bedroom to the basement, then the tricky question, as to
who moved her can be side-stepped. Since it was obviously the kidnapper?
If you think about it further there was not even an attempt at creating any kind of a crime-scene down in the basement. JonBenet along with associated forensic evidence was simply dumped into the wine-cellar.
I think JonBenet had already undergone a series of stagings and the drafting of the ransom note is the R's answer for why she was not found in her bed!
As I suggested earlier she may have been placed elsewhere in the house, then the R's realized at the last moment
agency was required in any movement, so the RN was drafted.
In my basic RDI theory I assume when JonBenet was relocated to the wine-cellar, her size-6 underwear and remaining size-12's and pink pajama bottoms were left behind, and that JR hid them down in the basement early that morning.
Remember BR's remarks,
What did you find?. I think its these little details that JR is attempting to obscure both during and after the 911 call?
The one piece of evidence that could link JR here is the chair! Everyone seems to focus upon the intruder, but what if JR had a use for the chair, in much the same way, we can envisage him finding a role for the samsonite case.
I reckon there are objects lying about down in the basement that formed part of a previous staging, and because they look so normal, we do not question them.
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