My favorite hat is off to otg for sharing a plausible BDI theory and presenting it succinctly and without condemnation. Rather than reply to the lengthy post, for the sake of space, otg's BDI theory is linked below.
This description almost elicits sympathy for BR if all he wanted to do was play an innocent little game of tie up the "Kitty" with his sister. But, if BDI, it is a ruse for he has boundaries that he intends to cross.
But shes scared and keeps screaming until he grabs something and hits her over the head with it. No rage, no ill will toward his sister, no intent to cause harm, and certainly no intent to commit murder... just a quick reaction to his desire to shut her up quick.
The two young Ramsey children awoke early Christmas morning to see what Santa brought. After gifts were exchanged, they had a pancake breakfast. They played with their toys except JonBenet ignored her Twinn Doll. Later, they dressed to go to the White's for Christmas dinner. They played with their friends at the White's residence for hours before finally arriving home around 9:30 for they had an early morning flight to catch although Patsy did not really want to go.
No. Patsy did not want to go to Charlevoix. Nor did she desire to host the Christmas party that year and had chosen not to do so; however, when informed that Charles Kuralt requested video of the home as his film crew was due in town to spotlight Boulder's Christmas Tour of Historic Homes, according to John, Patsy hastily prepared for the party on short notice.
Back to the tired children; wouldn't 6yo JonBenet and her 9yo brother be exhausted from a wonderful Christmas spent and be quite content to collapse into their cozy beds and dream of sugarplums and opening even more gifts the next day in Michigan? Instead, apparently BR was busy tricking JonBenet around midnight. If responsible, he was being sneaky, curious, careless, dangerous, persistent and certainly precocious to the point that his baby sister's life ends from two separate yet equally fatal causes:
a) the horrific strangulation.
b) the powerful blunt force bludgeon that cracks and punches a hole in her skull made w/enough force that it could have generally knocked down a 300# man. Isn't that much more force than necessary to make a little girl stop screaming?
What if there was no scream from JonBenet that night? My neighbor's cat screams like a girl when she is in heat. She 'calls' to attract males. Male cats do it, too. Loudly. Their calls sound like a girl who is screaming from pain. If there was no scream from JonBenet, then there was no reason to silence her with the blow to the head. OTOH, JonBenet was tortured. I believe she screamed.
Surely it is not normal to consider striking someone, on their head, with all your might, to make them stop screaming unless your intent is also to do them great bodily harm. BR swung a golf club that hit JB in the cheek two years prior. He knew it sent his concerned mother hauling JB to see a doctor.
They desperately wanted to hide the fact that she had been sexually assaulted. It makes no sense to think that they would poke the paintbrush into her as cover for past molestations and then clean up the blood to hide it.
Jamming, jabbing or poking a broken paint brush, or anything else, into a 6yo little girl will never make sense. And, since there is no way she consented to being penetrated by a stick until she bled, then it was a rape and as such it should be punishable, by law, no matter if the perp was 9 or 99yo.
Following the tragic death of "that child", PR began a regime of medication designed to help one cope with anxiety and sleeplessness prescribed for her by JonBenet's pediatrician. Ironically, JR took a similar regime prescribed for him by BR's psychiatrist. Why would a typical little boy from an alleged loving, all-American family, with no reported history of abuse or violence, need to visit a shrink at the tender age of nine? And how long had BR been treated by a psychiatrist in Boulder? In Atlanta?
JonBenet did not like the basement. She never went down there alone. It was very dark down there Christmas night, even with a flashlight. Was pineapple that enticing? Was Burke's charm irresistible enough to lure JonBenet to that dark basement late at night while her parents slept three floors above? Or did he threaten her with his pocket knife the housekeeper thought she had stowed away upstairs? Was he also responsible for her chronic sexual abuse?