It's also an interesting fact that in his interview with Dr. Bernhard on January 8, BR tells her he knows what happened to JBR, and proceeds to describe her being taken downstairs, and then either stabbed or hit in the head with a hammer. And he replicated the hitting movement of an over-the-arm blow. By this time, it had been published in the papers on December 28th that she had been strangled, but no mention of a head wound. There was a quote from Detective Larry Mason that the child "had not been shot or stabbed". There was only a passing comment on January 6th in the Daily Mail (local Boulder paper) about a head injury, details of the depressed skull fracture were not revealed to the public until July of 1997. We know from the R's own comments that they were shielding BR from newspapers and tabloids about the crime. So how did he know she was hit in the head? And why the misleading statement about being stabbed with a knife when we know that he knew she was strangled, as Susan Stine had overheard he and Doug discussing only two days after the murder?
And why were BR's medical records withheld from the investigation by the R attorneys? The earlier incident with BR hitting JBR with the golf club was downplayed by PR as an accident. But at first she admitted to Judith Phillips that BR and JBR were having a disagreement and that resulted in him hitting her. Judith, who was the photographer who took many pictures of PR and both kids, recalled that she often saw flashes of anger and outbursts from BR. She was a close friend for 10 years before PR cut her off and out. She knew things that PR did not want to be known. It's also interesting that the golf club incident took place within a couple of days of JBR's birthday. Despite what he has said, there are signs that BR was jealous of his little sister and the attention she received.
