You're absolutely right. He would have finished her off and exited immediately. I was saying the staging would have been for the intruder, pre-scream, pre-death. Unconscious child, staged sexual scene for his benefit, she awakens, screams, he kills and dashes out.
(also, I thought the panties were intended as gifts but never wrapped or given, just opened and used by JBR though they were too large)
And equally, if the Ramsey's had all of this evidence snuck out of the house hours or a day after JBR's body was found, how did they count on the cops being so bungling, and that there would be no house lock-down as a crime scene and so little investigation? That was the only way they could have removed evidence after calling the police, was if the police failed to treat the scene as a crime scene, if their friends didn't notice them grabbing or hiding things. How did they know that in advance? etc.
I don't disagree with you, I just don't understand some parts of either side.
Your info on the panties was Patsy's statement, and can't be taken as fact. She lied about a lot of other things, including owing a bowl containing pineapple that was SEEN in a photo of her party three days earlier.
Patsy admitted buying the panties as a gift for her niece. Take a good look at the crime photos of that wineceller. NO one, especially someone as well-groomed as Patsy, would wrap gifts (on what? The floor? There was no table in that room) in a filthy, moldy room, where paint cans and dirty window screens were stored and white, powdery mold (very common on a concrete basement floor and NOT a reflection of Patsy's cleanliness) was all over the floor.
YET- partially unwrapped gifts were found in that very room. It is all too obvious that the boxes were unwrapped to find the panties.
As for the lock-down...you're kidding right? The police failed to secure the crime scene from the FIRST MOMENT, when Officer French allowed the Rs friends, pastor, and "victim's advocates" to enter the house or remain there. They wiped down counters, and kitchen surfaces with Windex, all the while the flashlight- a possible murder weapon- stood right there. As Officer French was alone for a while in the home with all these people, and claimed he searched the basement himself, it stands to reason he wasn't watching ALL of them ALL the time.
Det. Arndt ALLOWED people, including JR,to roam an active crime scene freely, resulting in JR bringing the body of his daughter up from the basement and forever contaminating the body.
Then, Det. Arndt herself moved the body and covered it with a sweatshirt after allowing JR to cover it with a blanket. Then, she allowed Patsy to throw herself on the body.
THEN, both parents were allowed to leave the house unsearched and wearing the same clothing in an unprecedented (for everywhere but Boulder, I bet) breach of procedure.
So I'd say they had a pretty good idea of the bungling and ineffectiveness that marred this case right from the start.
That house was not treated as a crime scene right from the start. I don't care how much yellow tape police put up.