Ames,
Whomever constructed the garrote had patently not made one before since the final product could never function as a garrote since it had fixed knotting, never mind JonBenet's hair being bound into the knotting e.g. it was not used!
imo someone had already physically assaulted JonBenet, the abrasions on her lower neck are testimony to this, also her vaginal injury was cleaned up and hidden from view. So the garrote was intended as a visible explanation for her death and neck abrasions.
Yet since the garrote could not function as intended, suggesting her head injury finally contributed to her death. Also there is the macabre possibility that the lower neck abrasions are the result of a deliberate asphyxiation attempt, which are then covered up by the garrote.
imo JonBenet's death resulted from a molestation gone wrong, potentially placing sexual rage in the frame. The hiding of her vaginal injuries, the wiping away of blood, the clean size-12's all point to a sexual assault. There was no need to hide this aspect it could be all be blamed on the kidnapper, just as Lou Smit eventually attempted to do.
Also both the coroner and BPD considered JonBenet's vaginal trauma to be relevant. e.g.
And Steve Thomas tells us in his book:
Also JonBenet's vaginal trauma was so visibly apparent that it merited a slideshow comparing her genitalia with other normal, patent non-traumatised genitals.
So to summarize JonBenet's vaginal trauma was chronic, and it occured around the time of her death, Coroner Meyer suggests to us that her hymen was larger than normal, also one of the consulting pediatricians using magnified closeup autopsy photographs considered JonBenet's hymen to be unaturally enlarged estimated as 1 cm by 1 cm.
A majority of pediatricians and forensic examiners including the person who conducted JonBenet's autopsy concluded that sexual abuse was the likely cause.
So imo on the night of her death, someone molested JonBenet possibly restraining her in some manner e.g. tying cord, a belt, or something with a snap or buckle around her legs, possibly her upper body to prevent arm movement e.g those alleged stun-gun abrasions, followed by head trauma, and possible punching to the temples of her head, then an asphyxiation to finish her off.
The resulting wine-cellar staging simply underlines how deliberate it all appears, despite the attempts at staging!
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