UKGuy - I have never even considered that the broken window was BR's attempt at staging or even PR's. Silly me, I believed JR crawled through it in his underwear one night when he was locked out and that PR and/or LHP cleaned up the broken glass and no one bothered to see to it being repaired. But, this is interesting. What happened to the shards of glass? I guess they went with the rest of the paintbrush, tape and cord in a Louis Vuitton and a fur coat. Really though, the thought of a 9 year old staging a broken window to cover his tracks is pretty scary. Seriously, he would have to be odd, very odd. Scary. It would have to be someone who was/is bi-polar and wasn't getting their meds and maybe the reason for the GJ's opinion.
I think JR is nutty enough to crawl through a basement window if he thought PR was in the house with another man, or he was sneaking in very late at night from a rendezvous but not just because he didn't have his keys, copies of which his neighbors had and he had a garage door opener which would lead to an unlocked garage door right into the house. But, that's me. I think he got home late in a taxi one night. Or he thought he would catch PR and her lover. For either reason, he didn't want the garage door to open and alert the people inside. It was likely a bad scene and is the reason it never got fixed.
Crazy, but I call 'truth' on this one.
TeaTime,
PR has brought a guy back to the house? Well maybe, but why might JR signal an entrance by breaking a window why not sneak in using his garage door opener or a spare key from under one of the garden pots?
LHP says she does not remember a broken window and Patsy as usual contradicts herself saying she told LHP to sort it out, and that she helped to cleanup the broken glass herself?
JR also offers a contradictory time line first its a summertime break in, then later its an intruder entrance point?
So if it's all so clear cut why all the prevarication? Here is how I see it: the parents arrive late at the basement crime-scene, now either they or BR create the broken window?
I doubt either parent broke the window, so to enact a fake staging scenario, they would know about the glass breakage direction issue.
So if we think the case is BDI in particular BDI All, then why not BR breaking the window to go with some other fake staging, e.g. BR long johns on JonBenet, or the size-12's?
BR's footprint is in the wine-cellar, as was his knife, he opened those Christmas Gifts according to Kolar. BR admits hanging about the basement, he traveled back downstairs on Christmas night to play with some toy. So it appears BR's locus of movement is the basement.
So although one of the parents might have broken the window in a prior staging, which was then revised later by the other parent, its also possible BR attempted to fake a break-in, by breaking the window?
That BR broke the window and both parents later covered for him is consistent with a BDI All theory, and precisely the parents postmortem accounts regarding the broken window, and similar behavior over other aspects of the case, e.g. broken window, i.e. JR says he broke it, samsonite suitcase, i.e. JR moved it to the basement, size-12's, i.e. Patsy gave them to JonBenet, BR's long johns on JonBenet, i.e. Patsy redressed JonBenet in them.
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