After some thought... and a little reading.
Lots of people make a point about the 'potty rage' theory that why would christmas night be so different? How about if you have a tired and ill mother who has had a busy few weeks, a fraught day with a child in a state who won't co-operate and doesn't 'hold it in' on the best of days. Then add the fact that she is sedated, fairly unable to co-operate even if she wanted to and has been given a drug that increases the frequency of micturition in
adults let alone a slightly built six-year old....
"Smooth muscle relaxants such as Valium®, Klonopin®, and Xanex® also worsen urinary leakage by relaxing the external urethral sphincter."
http://www.wdxcyber.com/nurine06.htm
Talk about take a problem and make it worse. Then there are the symptoms of the drug in overdose or when given to children:
Symptoms of a clonazepam overdose may include drowsiness, dizziness, confusion, a slow heart beat, difficulty breathing, difficulty walking and talking, an appearance of being drunk, and unconsciousness.
http://health.yahoo.com/drug/d00197a1/
Would this explain the whole confusion around the head injury coming first or last? If Jonbenet received the head injury during a rage incident and all the rest is staging the drug aspect makes great sense. It explains the lack of bleeding out in the skull and would explain them believing she was already dead when the garrote was tied.
Which brings me back to a question in my last post:
Enola said:
But that doesn't answer the WHY. Why would they want to pass the buck onto the Whites?
One of the things I have noticed most strongly over the years is the way that the Ramseys never take the final responsibility for even the simplest things. When it comes to discussing past appearances on TV, travel, living arrangements, lawyers, etc etc it's ALWAYS because somebody gave them advice. This, in the Ramseys view, is their universal buck-passer - we did it because we were advised to. Blame the person who told us.
So how about this:
After a fraught day the Ramseys go to visit Fleet and Priscilla. Things are still fractious with Jonbenet - most parents know how over-tired and over-excited kids get by Christmas night. It's getting to the end of the evening together and Priscilla takes her Klonopin as she does every evening at that time. Patsy asks for one - Maybe even joking that she needs the extra relaxed feeling to face dealing with getting Jonbenet home and in bed after the day they have had with her. Priscilla pops another Klonopin out and passes it over. Then in a way that people often do with friends, they make a silly and joking comment with unforseen consequences. As the pill is passed over to Patsy, either Fleet or Priscilla joke that "Maybe you should be giving it to her instead of you!". The four adults laugh at the comment but maybe John half-jokes that it "Sounds like a good idea, It might come to that". Laughter all round.
Just imagine if that had happened.
Things turn sulky at home, John give Jonbenet some Klonopin as she is sat in the kitchen eating pineapple and refusing to go to bed. Imagine John did carry her up to bed as it took effect (just not from the car) and that drugged state was the final explosive element in the potty rage incident.
- It explains Burke saying she walked in from the car
- It explains why they are adamant about her not eating pineapple (they would want her to be asleep earlier having last eaten at the Whites)
- It explains the emphasis on the seperate plate of crab.
- It explains why John might feel as responsible as Patsy and stick by her.
- It explains the lack of bleeding in the skull
- It explains how they thought she was dead when she was actually still (just) alive
- It explains why LE asked about Klonopin
- It explains why they all get so excited when Patsy Karr says he 'drugged' Jonbenet
But most of all, it explains why the Ramseys and Fleets go from the close friends you spend Christmas with to the ones you throw under the bus. I don't imagine it took too long for the Ramsey's Universal Buck-Passer to kick in. If either Fleet, or Priscilla made the comment about the Klonopin they become the advice givers and the ultimately responsible...
JMO8778 said:
I have always wondered about the comment FW made to JR in DOI,the "you know what I have to do now, John!'
Me too.