I've followed the JBR case since Christmas 1996 when it was first reported on the local Colorado news. My first immediate reaction was: "What? Why are they showing a picture of a glitzy 20-year-old woman with a story about a little girl?" And my friend said, "No, that's her. She's 6." But my brain just had to really work to believe it. And then came the part about her being found in the basement several hours after the kidnapping, and again, my brain rebelled. It was not some sort of cynical reaction -- at least not for the first few minutes. It was more like seeing an elephant falling from the sky heading right for me and not being able to even compute how to react. The whole thing was beyond unbelievable.
Over the years, I have come to think that no one could ever possibly be shown, beyond a reasonable doubt, to be responsible, largely because of all the police errors on that first day. But I can understand how those errors happened, because I think it must have been something like that for them as well. The mind just balks at the unreasonableness of the entire situation. I have gone around in circles a lot, because I do respect Lou Smit's years of investigative success, but I have always thought the most likely scenario is that one or more of the family were involved in her death. One reason being that, across many years of following true crime, I'd never heard of an intruder who could be compared to one who could have or would have committed this crime.
And then came Canadian Col. Russell Williams. Snuck into and out of houses, sometimes many times into the same house, completely undetected. Residents didn't even know he'd been in their houses, although he'd been stealing panties while there and spending a lot of time in both the houses and the panties. He has now been convicted and sentenced as a sadistic sexual serial killer. His known victims were women, but he was also at least watching and fantasizing about little girls. I am not suggesting he killed JBR, but I never heard of anyone whose actions included so many elements so similar to this case. So my logical reasoning that no intruder does a crime like the JBR murder has pretty much been shown to be faulty.
Here is a link to a very thorough news story. What do you all think? Does it cause you to consider that there might be more than one of these kinds of freaks in the world? IDI seems not entirely impossible -- to me -- now that I know about this guy.
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Over the years, I have come to think that no one could ever possibly be shown, beyond a reasonable doubt, to be responsible, largely because of all the police errors on that first day. But I can understand how those errors happened, because I think it must have been something like that for them as well. The mind just balks at the unreasonableness of the entire situation. I have gone around in circles a lot, because I do respect Lou Smit's years of investigative success, but I have always thought the most likely scenario is that one or more of the family were involved in her death. One reason being that, across many years of following true crime, I'd never heard of an intruder who could be compared to one who could have or would have committed this crime.
And then came Canadian Col. Russell Williams. Snuck into and out of houses, sometimes many times into the same house, completely undetected. Residents didn't even know he'd been in their houses, although he'd been stealing panties while there and spending a lot of time in both the houses and the panties. He has now been convicted and sentenced as a sadistic sexual serial killer. His known victims were women, but he was also at least watching and fantasizing about little girls. I am not suggesting he killed JBR, but I never heard of anyone whose actions included so many elements so similar to this case. So my logical reasoning that no intruder does a crime like the JBR murder has pretty much been shown to be faulty.
Here is a link to a very thorough news story. What do you all think? Does it cause you to consider that there might be more than one of these kinds of freaks in the world? IDI seems not entirely impossible -- to me -- now that I know about this guy.
:waitasec: