maketoast said:
Take a look at this photo.
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Could it be that if there was a Perp. he was under the bed waiting for the Ramseys to fall asleep? It would have given him perfect access to see what was going on in JonBenets room. What is your take on this? Is this something important in this case, or is this just something that isnt that big of deal? I guess it just depends on how you look at everything. What is your opinion?
Look at your own head. See how far your eyes are down from the top of your head? The intruder would have to have stuck his head out from under the bed to at least the number of inches from the top of his head to his eyes, in order to see out. So you would have a high risk of the ruffle sticking out farther than it is shown. Then consider that in order to get back out from under the bed, the intruder would have had to push the ruffle up so it was almost parallel to the floor just to get his body out. Now, do you want to propose that the intruder, having pushed the ruffle out very far, then bothered to push it back in such a way that it still stood out oddly? I think not. If the intruder wanted to put things back the way they were, then it ought to be straight as the rest of the ruffle is,
if, in fact, the ruffle was originally straight down to begin with. But if it was not, if it just got out of place when Patsy took the suitcases out from under the bed and she briefly smoothed it back, then the ruffle's state is simply a reflection of something Patsy did not care about at the moment, and if anything has been learned about Patsy, it is that she only cares about appearances if another person will be impressed with her care. She expected nobody to pay particular attention to that ruffle, so she would have no reason to smooth it back perfectly.
Of course, we have another wild card in play, and that is the presence of children. I dare John and Patsy to testify, under oath, that they knew no children had been in that room and played in such a way as to disturb the ruffle as recently as Christmas day. Unless they can do this, and unless Burke has sworn to the truth of knowing neither he, nor JonBenet or their friends, played in that room, it is more reasonable to believe children messed it up than it is that an intruder did.