narlacat said:
Burke didnt know his sister was dead at that stage Eagle, he only knew she was missing. Brefie is correct with the time he left, he left at 7am, with the Nintendo tucked under his arm.
Something else is a little odd about the Ramseys letting Burke take the Nintendo out of the house. The Nintendo 64 absolutely could not work unless it was hooked up to a television set, and usually it was through a switcher box, so that the player can switch between broadcast tv and the game. Obviously, Burke or some adult had to have the presence of mind to unhook the Nintendo from the tv in Burke's room.
But consider: On December 26th, the local members of the media learned pretty quickly that there was a kidnapping of a child in Boulder. This would mean covering the story on the local tv channels. So why was Burke being encouraged to take, of all his gifts, a present that required he turn on the tv and risk being exposed to all the details, as they were known at the time, of his own sister's kidnapping and the ultimate discovery of her death?
Here is yet more evidence that Burke was likely obsessed with his Nintendo that Christmas, thus giving less credence to John's insistence that Burke wanted to put together some toy parking garage on Christmas night rather than play his Nintendo. I see here in the Linda McLean book JONBENET'S MOTHER that she personally saw Burke playing Nintendo games at Don and Nedra Paugh's house immediately after JonBenet's funeral. Obviously, this implies that the game was so extremely important to him, he insisted on bringing it with him to another state on the day when his own sister was being buried. But why would any adult encourage or allow this to have happened? If they were trying to protect Burke from media attention at that point, it seems the least effective way of doing that would be to let him have a game that, as said above,
requires one have a working television to hook it up to, which risks having him see the stories being broadcast.
I can make sense of this in a theory that the Ramseys knew a cord, either controller or power, from the game was involved in JonBenet's strangulation (with the eventual ligature cord as cover-up). In that theory, keeping the Nintendo with Burke at all times would make complete sense, because it becomes almost invisible as evidence, having taken on a role as just a toy to distract a kid from all the fuss of his family's tragedy. But the Nintendo makes
no sense as the one toy above all others that would help an innocent Ramsey parent protect his or her son from the television coverage of the crime.
