Arriving at JDI took me several years, once I gave up on believing that an intruder killed JB. My own kids were grown and on their own, and as a mother, I just did not want to believe parents like the R's could do anything so heinous. My Dad (who passed away in 2010 at the age of 85) was an armchair sleuth most of his adult life, so caught me up in his enthusiasm. He said from day 1 it was in the family, with either the mother as a fading, ill (chemo brain) beauty queen jealous of the attention her daughter was getting in the pageant circle and maybe from too many high class male family friends, or it was the Dad, possibly in collusion with letting some close male friends use his daughter for sexual purposes. Funny thing over the years, my Dad could have written scripts for Columbo or Matlock....he rarely missed his call on "who done its", whether they were fictional stories or real true cases.
He never could get over the fact that JonBenet's killer could not be brought to justice. Each year that went by we discussed the case more, and as I began to read more and more of the books, I joined my Dad in the RDI camp.
It was when John Ramsey wrote and promoted "The Other Side of Suffering", my hinky meter went off. It's my opinion that JR is an evil man using Christianity as a cover to save his hide. His book contains many comments about his own life that translated aspects to me that support my feelings. I don't think that I could write my complete theory about JR being JB's killer without writing my own book about it, because it took me several years, many books, and lots of case history to lead me to believe JR possesses an evil, hidden warped sexual personality, cloaked by his successful high profile career achieved through control and narcissism practiced in both his personal and business life.
I believe JR had the same type of relationship with his daughter, Beth, that he had begun with JB. JB was a "stand in" for Beth, because of the natural detachment that occurred as Beth moved into her own adult life. I think as both she and JR got older, JR's emotional/mental health with regard to his sexual appetite had become almost surreal to him. When Beth died, it pushed JR into a state of reality that was nearly unbearable for him and in order to get through real life, he started a new hidden life of consoling himself with beautiful little JB.
Between what PR was teaching JB for pageants, and using her southern heritage as a guideline for grooming JB as a charming child, PR might have even thought it was wonderful that JR seemed to be so smitten with JB. I think, though, that in the months before JB's death, PR came to realize there was something happening with JB and perhaps more than one male Ramsey, and PR was trying to get a grip on what she would have to do to handle things. But then JB was killed.
I think JR pushed an encounter with JB that Christmas night farther than either of them could manage, and as a result, he struck her out of rage. Over the years, a few credible people close to JR were able to give examples of his displays of ill temperament. I respect Super Dave's theory of PR discovering JR and JB together and PR landing the head blow, which led to all the rest of it. But I can't imagine her then being able to keep from eventually ratting out JR, especially once her cancer returned as finally terminal. Yes, she might have wanted to protect Burke at all costs, but in mother bear mode over Burke, would she have not also needed to avenge her daughter's death?
Because of what is public about Burke's behaviors, I think it's possible that PR was trying to deal with something between BR and JB, and JR was aware of it as well. He might have even been seething underneath to realize his little beauty queen was being shared. And I find it completely possible that he could have killed JB, and if he did not do it all himself from there on out, including writing the note and failing to keep PR from calling the police, he managed to make PR believe that night that Burke had done it, and they would have to join forces in a cover-up for the sake of their son's future due to his current psychological state. I have no doubt JR would be able to manage both BR and PR in the future to keep both of them from ever "comparing notes". PR would leave it all up to JR and she would be content accepting that Burke's behaviors would be best left unchallenged by her in the hopes he wouldn't become any more ill than he already was. Any followup treatment would be best left for the professionals.
I waver from think JDI all by himself, to wondering if he enlisted PR's help by blaming Burke. But the part of the puzzle that keeps me looking more at JDI solo is that fact that JB's body was still in the house when the cops were called. The whole thing with the note, ransom, etc could have possibly gelled if JB's body could have been taken out of the home. If the call would not have been made, everything in the ransom note could have occured, with the call from the "kidnappers" coming on the morning of the 27th, providing plenty of time to get JB's body out of the house during the process. It would have only been a very short time after "delivery" of the ransom money before authorities would have been notified and one of the worst kidnapping/murders of American history would have been established. Here, I suggest if you want more insight into a JDI theory that is well laid out, check out:
www.solvingjonbenet.com, and read over DocG's blogs. Even if you can't agree with it all totally, he has done a great job of showing why JR should have his day in the court room.
All MOO, and thanks for bearing with this long post.
yes after posting I seen where he was back in atl with his mother. I just dont see patsy letting JB out of her sight for someone to be molesting her so it had to ba a family member... yes she may have been negligent as far as the house a mess and the soiling clothes and all but it was one of the 3 males in the house. MO JAR
