JusticeSeekerE said:
I know that there has been some discussion about JB being hit with a flashlight ... so I am just curious ... To me it would make more sense for a parent to hit her with bat or a golf club or a lamp or something handy (if we are looking at rage?). Do we know where the flash light was originally? Seems to me if we are look at some sort of act of rage on either parent's part or even at an accident of some kind we would be looking for some kind of object that would have been handy not something that you would go searching for and then return with. What would a parent be doing walking around their own house with a flashlight anyway? I don't know about you, but I don't need any light to walk around my house at night because I know where everything is, and if I did need some light I wouldn't hunt down a flash light I would simply flip on the light.
Now, a faucet in the bath tub makes a little more sense to me honestly, but still, with the head injury she substained I believe that John or Patsy would have literally had to have thrown her in the tub. The blow was to the side of her head ... another part of her body would have had to have come into contact with the tub before her head did and there were no other marks on her body in an area that would have hit the tub. Of course, this also holds no water, if she was actually in tub. Then someone could have grabbed her by her hair and forced her into the faucet. But why would she be in tub that late at night or that early in the morning? Had she wet the bed? One thing I do want to know ... I have heard that there was urine in the hallway in front of the wine cellar. Is this true? If so then why would her parents put her urine stained panties and pants back her? If she had wet the bed and was killed in rage then why is there urine in the basement? You would think that after wetting the bed she wouldn't have much urine in her to lose. Also, why didn't the Ramsey's wash the sheets? They managed to get rid of the rope and tape ... and cover everything else up nicely, so with the time they would have had after killing her why didn't they wash the sheets and put them back on and ruffle them up a little? Someone mentioned something about traces of a chemical in healthy urine was found on her sheets ... cannot remember who it was and now that I am looking for that post I cannot find it (the chemical started with a C I think)! Is that chemical similar to DNA or blood? Can it survive the washing machine? As far as hitting her head or being thrown into the sink ... I have to keep in mind her height. If it was the sink, we aren't looking at an accident with Burke. A parent would have had had to have done that. In order to have had full access to the sink on her own she would have had to have a step stool. She wouldn't have been tall enough to have been pushed into the sink she would have had to have been thrown. If this were the case where are the other injuries? When children fall or are thrown they try to catch themselves which leads to other injuries. If she was thrown directly on her head would we not also be looking for a neck injury? I just find it hard to believe that she could have been thrown and have no other injuries.
I agree the flashlight could have been left as an element of staging and may or may not have been used in the actual crime .... If this is the case then they did something with the actual weapon used IMO. I don't think she was thrown. If she was hit with something out of rage they disregarded it or removed along with the access tape and rope.
JusticeSeeker: there was urine on JB's sheets, but by the time the police finally thought of collecting them, the sheets were (already) dry, and since JB was a chronic bedwetter, it it impossible to say if the urine was from that night or from previous accidents.
But you are right, JusticeSeeker: if JB had wet the bed on that fatal night, the Ramseys most likely would have removed the wet sheet fom the bed.
I believe JB never went to bed on that night, but still it is possible that a soiling/wetting accidenct triggered parental rage while the child
had not yet gone to bed, for JB wet and soiled herself also during daytime (= when she was not asleep).
Suppose JB, excited from Christmas day, refused to got to bed, Patsy was stressed-out and pressed for time since they had to get up early in the morning for their flight, it was already close to midnight (John and Burke having gone to bed already), and when JB then also wet and soiled herself, Patsy flew off the handle, yanked her around, slamming her against the bathtub, the result being the tragic head injury.
I think the underwear in which JB was finally found was put on her
after death, and that the urine which JB shed in this underwear was post-mortem release of which the Ramseys in their panicked frenzy did not even become aware of.
What Dr. Ronald Wright (one of the experts consulted on the case) said about the urine would support the toilet rage theory imo.
For Dr. Wright pointed out that normally, at post-mortem urine release, people's bladders don't empty completely , but
only partly. As opposed to that, JB's bladder was completely empty, and Dr. Wright concluded that she must have evacuated her bladder not long before her death. The bladder refills constantly, and by the time JB drew her last breath, the small amount of urine which had collected again was now emptied completely.