I agree losing 2 children must be incredibly painful. While getting my Bachelor's in Psychology. I learned that people who have one personality disorder can have a mix of others as well. So it wouldn't surprise me if he was NPD with sociopathic tendencies.
That shoe could definitely fit!
If he grew up with narcissists or sociopaths, he knew very well how to lie already.
I tend to agree with this theory the strongest. I stated above that I thought vital signs may have been faint and their may have been more/less time between the head injury and strangulation.
Agreed, I think above I had sort of the same hypothesis except with BR pushing her accidentally causing the head wound. Either way it's a very plausible scenario. Because I used to work with kids in a treatment facility, I think BR could have done the other stuff too. However the rest seems more out of a crime novel. I have heard it said that JR was into crime novels and had a John Douglas book by the bed. I have never really heard this before. Does anyone know the source for this claim?
The false 911 call is certainly yet another event that contributes to the overall mystery of everything that went down in the days before that fateful Christmas night. It's still debated to this day because of what ultimately happened and how the explanations of that call have been handled. It was supposedly Fleet White who was making calls about prescriptions for his mother, but I don't think he has spoken directly about it, which adds to the mystery. It could have been perfectly innocent, just a misdial as has been indicated.
IMO I think the false 911 call is important. I think something happened that night that startled FW enough to call 911. But JR or PR talked him out of it somehow. FW may have shared that info with BPD when JR and PR accused him of the murder. It may not have been shared with the public.
I think it's very likely that both JR & PR have / had NPD. Given what we know about Nedra's very prickly personality, it kind of fits. Don't know much about JR's parents, other than his father was a decorated WWII pilot and after the war held impressive positions in a few aeronautics commissions. He apparently "ruled" the Michigan Aeronautics Commission with an iron fist and was described as a "Czar" in that regard. Some big shoes for a son to fill and a reputation to live up to.
I have heard of the Michigan camp trafficking before. Not sure it applies to JB death unless an intruder did it. Possibly someone who knew JR'S dad might have been involved or even JR himself. However an intriguing side note.
I think people want to believe the intruder theory because they don't want to believe that someone in the family could have done this. But it happens far more often than most people feel comfortable with admitting, it's a horrific thought that's difficult for most people to wrap their brains around. The points you bring up are hard to dismiss, as are the actions of the R's themselves in the aftermath of that night. The IDI theory lacks evidence and the actions purported to have been made by this imaginary culprit make no sense. There is however evidence that points to at least 3 family members being awake that night far past what they told police. The timeline simply does not add up.
It is an interesting side note in context with all the rumors of a pedophile ring in Boulder and the names that were associated. And the uncomfortable fact that JBR was being sexually abused by someone.
The charity boys camp caught my attention. As I stated my oldest son was about 4 years older than BR. The one thing I would never let him do is go to Boy Scouts or church camp. While I had no problem with the organizations, I felt that these were opportunities for predators to hide in plain site. ( My dad was also LE) It also was a time in our community that priest molestation was rampant and being exposed.
It's going to be a little hard to pass it off as an accident if BR took a golf club and split her skull in two. If you yourself are convinced BR couldn't have hit her, can you imagine explaining away the force required if he did. It wasn't a thunk. It was a fit of rage or an impulsive act to shut her up. I'm not sure why you are so convinced a 9 year 11 month old child who was big for his age could not inflict an injury as severe as the one JB recieved. I have come in contact with children younger than that whose parents are afraid of them and are fearful for their siblings. I know a child half BR age that is obsessed with driving the car and stole keys twice. Just because you think something is true/ untrue doesn't make it fact.
Very interesting
Fascinating. Isn't it interesting just how many odd coincidences there are with the R family?
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?
