I can't believe I am saying this. But I changed my theory based on the evidence and information provided on tonight's show.
I’m watching The Case of JonBenet Ramsey, which I think we all have been hoping for, for 20 years. Probably the best analysis of the case I have seen so far and I have learned new things from this show along with the Dr. Phil interview on Burke Ramsey. I think I am swaying more and more towards the Burke Ramsey did it theory, which I dismissed early on.
The Dr. Phil interview really perturbed me. Burke is not only socially awkward, but he made some unbelievable statements and some statements that were really bizarre. In addition to his inappropriate smiles and looking down when asked certain question, His lack of empathy for his sister was evident. He flat out lied when asked if he had ever read the ransom note in it's entirety. This kid is almost 30 years old and he has never read the note? He said he stops on page 1 and can't get through anymore?
The biggest revelation is that Burke Ramsey admits to being up that night and sneaking down to play with his Christmas toys. HUGE admission! His prints are on the bowl of pineapple. He also admitted to hitting JonBenet on the head once before with a golf club hard enough to cause a mark on her chin. The bowl of pineapple was found on the table and the flashlight was found on the kitchen countertop.
Dr. Werner Spitz lines up that flashlight perfectly with the head wound, and now I have no doubts that is the object that struck her. NONE at all.
If it's clear that Patsy Ramsey said in the background of the 911 tape, What did you do? That then removes her as the killer and places the blame on John or Burke. The 911 operator also states she heard Patsy say, We called 911, now what? This whole event is being orchestrated by John.
Furthermore when both John and Pasty state they did not kill JonBenet, it is convincing to everyone including the Linguist. That leaves one person left, and the convincing fact from Dr. Spitz called in a 10 year old boy to inflict the same type of wound to a skull as JonBenet was. The wound was almost an exact match! Also JonBenet was hit on the side of the head. I now can convincingly draw a conclusion that Burke woke in the middle of the night, perhaps woke JonBenet as well to play with their presents, both ate Pineapple, and at some point an altercation took place and Burke struck JonBenet with the flashlight to the side of the head.
Burke's reactions or non reactions on Dr. Phil and his odd behavior tells me something is not right with this child. His statements to the child psychologists about 'it's time to move on', and his disconnect and unsympathetic reactions to her murder disturb me. His reconstruction of what he thinks happened by raising his hand and bringing it down, also is suspicious along with him not identifying the pineapple when he is shown the photo, all show he is hiding something. This biggest factor for me, is that Burke Ramsey admitted to being up that night. The cover up was a joint effort on behalf of Patsy and John, which only makes sense why they covered for each other. When asked to draw a picture of his family, he drew his mom, dad and himself, not JonBenet. I think this child was jealous of his sister, the attention she received. I now view his as the likely culprit. Since the 911 call and ransom note cannot be dismissed as evidence, there is no sense in discussing any intruder theory, it doesn't exist.
I say there is ample evidence to make an arrest in this case. I now think Burke Ramsey is the culprit. This is now the only thing that makes sense on why both Patsy and John united to protect him. His interview with Dr. Phil and the interview with the child psychologist were very telling. And HI to all the old gang! Boy it's been years! It's sad we are still talking about this after all this time. If anything positive has come out of this case, is that JonBenet's murder was a wakeup call to police and investigators everywhere, and that NO ONE, not even wealthy people should be above the law.
I believe the theory elaborated above comports nicely with the known facts and serves to explain a lot of heretofore puzzles.
I wish to advance a theory of JBR that I think is quite plausible. It explains why both JR and PR vehemently voiced their innocence – TRUE. Why they could pass a lie detector test (of marginal value anyway) why they held together for the duration of the crisis and on until Patsy' death. Why they zealously guarded and shielded BR, and why JR now is a pitched PR war defending the naivety and innocence of BR whom many of public viewers see with a sense of horror – despite Dr Phil McGraw's pious “expert” explanations of a boy suffering from normal “nerves” It outlines a fairly detailed version of exactly what happened in the Ramsey home Dec 25, 2016 and more or less why.
It accounts for the seeming “bizarre behavior” of JR, PR, the virtual sequestration of Burke Ramsey for some 20 years. The version connects a lot of dots in a coherent whole. However there a number of forensic details that do not nicely fit into this scenario but because an enormous of amount of details and household items involved in this case are either not known, cannot be known, have been altered, or have disappeared depicting this crime as actually happened is in a word IMPOSSIBLE.
We can only offer assorted hypothesis and see how they withstand scrutiny, uncontested evidence, logical crime analysis including rational human behavior and motivation.
It is true that highly unlilely things are indeed highly unlikely but not quite IMPOSSIBLE. Many assertions could theoretical occur but they are simply highly improbable. Occam's Razor dictates that the explanation that is the simplest most straight forward that can account for known factors is the one to TENTATIVELY accept until such time an hypothesis is advanced consisting of greater elegance and explanatory power. That is when one hypothesis is “temporary” jettisoned” and the new better hypothesis sits in the proverbial driver's seat until it too becomes dethroned.
It is indeed possible that 2 equally elegant hypotheses are advanced which are capable of cogently connecting all admitted “dots” and it becomes nearly impossible to declare one a winner over the other you are left with all to freguent occurance of 2 equally powerful explanations(faiths, ideologies, models) where choice boils down to an act of faith.
A Theory of the JBR Murder: A Brief Outline and Introduction
Genre: This belongs to RDI Camp and rejects the IDI Camp
1. Burke and JBR had some sort of interaction on the night of Dec 25, 1996. Eating pineapple and cream was a part of this interaction. JBR probably did something or said something that enraged Burke. One could surmise any number of small acts that Burke took deep offense at. This rage of course assumes that Burke had overtime developed a deep sense of jealousy and loathing towards JBR, which is entirely plausible.
2. Burke had at hand the flashlight and smashed JBR head as an initial hostile act. The effect of the head blow caused a profound altered mental consciousness- contusion concussion disorientation. The initial blow would set into motion the effects of severe brain blunt trauma which might very well lead to loss of consciousness altogether. But nonetheless JBR was alive with a heart beat and breathing.
3. The next act is highly speculative and is obviously arguable. Burke could be disconcerted by a severely injured JBR and out of panic opts to press on. OR Burke still in a fit of rage continues an unremitting assault on his lifelong nemesis. So he finds nearby cord, and proceeds to strangulate her. The wood garrote we know was NOT an instrument used in bringing about strangulation. The wooden garrote was an afterthought that was inserted into the cord ligature around her neck. The paintbrush was also nearby and an artifact. The knot tying business is not that complex or perplexing. We are told Burke played with rope before. JR was a navy man and a sailor obviously adept at knot tying especially nautical knots. It is entirely likely JR taught Burke the art of knot tying. So the garrote – rope ligature assembly affixed to the JBR body was not terribly complicated and showed 2 different types of knots – the formation of which did not require a huge amount of skill or foreknowledge.
4. As an added symbolic act of rage and disgust Burke took a piece of paintbrush stick and traumatize JBR vagina and entroiitus. This was a symbolic gesture and not necessarily as a deliberate staging activity designed to frustrate a future investigation.
5. The paired abrasion marks on JBR's right side of head and right low back could very well have been created bt Kohar's postulate of the model train track piece possessing metal struts used to connect the individual pieces. 2 individual strikes with this device toward JBR could have occurred at any time during this physical mayhem.
6. The final result at the end of this phase of “conflagration” was one single female body with a head blow, a cord strangulation compounded by the addition of a confounding add-on, the robed wood garrote, and a garnishment of metal probe marks.
7. It is unlikely this violent confrontation took place at the kitchen or around the table. It is more likely Burke and JBR proceeded downstairs to his hobby room. This is where the assault occurred and where JR undoubtedly to his horror witnessed the carnage.
8. JR quickly reasoned that he and PR could not confront nor defend the unmitigated disaster of a model son mutilating his model pageant champion beauty. There would be NO recovery from the removal of his supreme social standing in Boulder with this incident emblazoned on every paper in the USA. Plus the fallout from General Dynamics and his billion dollar business empire was incalculable. JR anticipated the prospects of enjoying the trappings of a charming social heaven to an abrupt journey into Hell - a Dante Journey from Heaven to Hell – all in the flash of a moment.
9. What to do? What to do?
10. Cover up.
11. Murdered girl/daughter was a fact. But who might do this if not JR, PR or even BR. Easy, a robbery gone bad. But that is a hard one. Robbery is one thing but why a little girl and not the defending mother or father.
12. Next. How about an abduction. A weirdo stalks JBR and seeks to kidnap here. That is not a bad starting point.
13. BUT, the problem is targeting JBR in particular is easy and plausible, especially wheb added with the intent of extracting a ransom. However, I have a MAJOR problem of having a dead kidnap victim on hand.
14. So, I start with the claim of kidnap. JBR is gone. Snatched. Next, JBR needs to be indeed gone. Therefore, I will need to prepare the body as if a murder, indeed the head blow, the rope and accouterments are just fine, JR probably had no awareness of the vaginal penetration.
15. JR prepares the early steps of staging a kidnapping. First mode of entry: Downstairs window is a thought. Entry – open window, move a suite case under the window.
16. It is highly likely that the suitcase served many purposes as the staging scene was in development and was in actual process.
17. The hand rope, the face tape, were stage artifacts. The panties probably entered the staging ensemble a bit later.
18. Some of the forensic evidence including fibers, animal fibers, were due in part to contamination and also problematic because a great number of objects used in preparing the abduction ensemble were subsequently removed by the JR during Dec 26 and even later by family taken away in golf cart and loads of boxes as the Ramsey's freely roamed the house in their preparation to move out while the police proceeded with the crime investigation.
19. DNA traces were either contaminants or internationally introduced. I suspect even the single “pubic hair” was a plant engineered by JR and obtained when JR went to the Denver Airport or during his assorted absences BUT it was a late stage afterthought.
20. The Train Room was tidied up, since little if any blood was produced ( vexing problem requiring a side discussion). The body was washed down to insure no fingerprints or inculpating fluids fragments. Ramsey mostly likely did know anything about the head-wound so a flashlight may or may not have been an object of keen attention. It is likely though that, in due course, JR extracted a nearly complete account of Burke's activities including an account of the instruments and objects used. So by late AM Dec 26 JR knew what had happened, largely how it happened, where it happened and what objects were used at it happened. So JR had an accurate inventory of the crime elements and developed a scenario that included items that necessitated immediate removal/ disposal PLUS elements that needed insertion to lend credence of abduction that went bad.
21. I would surmise that JR decided that the crime to simulate entailed 1) an abduction occurred 2) JBR snatched and taken out of house 3) JBR body is subsequently discovered at a location soon to be decided.
22. JBR planned on bundling the body, suitcase may have been a part of this, spiriting the body out of the house into the car, finding a spot to dump the body, ridding of any ancillary evidence and returning home to handle negotiations with abductors.
23. Eventually the proverbial ransom note had to be constructed. The content and construction was almost entirely a JR concoction – with PR acting as scribe and commentator.
24. JR mayhave planned on obtaining money and making a delivery to the abductors - $118,000 chosen because JR had it on hand, and could easily afford to part with it.
25. Time was running out.
26. Ransom note construction practice and final production took over 1 hour.
27. Strategically JR et al opted to set into motion the “plan” at around 5:30AM. When the police and friends arrived JR' s plan would succeed or fail based on unknown circumstances.
28. JR early loitering in the basement after police arrived – was him doing last minute cleanup preparation work – hide JRB in wine cellar, finish any tidying up, last look around.
29. Arnt's observation that she lost contact with JR for over an hour – 10:30 – Noon. She noticed an abrupt change in mood and demeanor in him- preoccupied, distant, nervous, non communicative with Patsy friends or police; exactly OPPOSITE of a parent who had just learned their child had been abducted. JR now knew his original plan was in serious jeopardy. He had no reasonably plan to spirit JBR body out and deposit her elsewhere. So now what?
30. I have a claim abductors entered the house, claimed to have stolen off with JBR, but now JR was confronted with the following problems – abductors did NOT call as promised. Explainable. BUT, there is a dead JBR in the house that sooner or later is going to be discovered. JR has NO IDEA what the likelihood of kidnappers entering a strange house, kidnapping a family member, write a ransom note outlining precisely what to do and when to do it, IN THE HOUSE where the felony was committed, PLUS killing the victim AND leaving the body within the very house where the felony was committed, and then cleanly disappearing without a trace? ANSWER – at or close to ZERO PERCENT in the history crime record keeping.
31. JR began to engage in hard thinking so as to explain a botched kidnapping in the JR house – a horrendous murder – an entry and an exit of “foreign faction”, “ a pervert”, “ a stranger”, “an insider” - ALL under the very nose of intelligent alert upstanding members of Boulder without nary a strange sound, a cry, or the accidental awakening of 3 different household members all located within less than 25 yards or where all of this happened. The JR PR machine would of course claim “strange things happen” - so they do! But this one, if anybody believes it, must go down in the Guinness Book of WorldRecords.
The subsequent events of BPD assessment, the JR mobilization of a network of key members making up the Ramsey Myth Construction Team, the legal, PR strategic/tactical maneuvering, the political rivalry of the BPD/BDA Division are well documented elsewhere
). Favorite show. By the end of the episode, the kid has drowned a neighbor's dog in their bathtub, bound and gagged the boy to whom the dog belonged. He ties his sister up in her bed and starts a fire in their apartment hoping to watch her "melt from the inside out" but there was too much smoke for him to watch. The 10-year-old boy then takes a little boy into a play tunnel and holds a gun to his head, threatening to shoot the boy if anyone tries to get to him. Over-the-top episode, but I suppose it's possible for a "bad seed" psychopathic child to do these things. :moo:
