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HOTYH. As I see it, the placement of the RN would point to a RDI scenario in which the Ramseys were initially attempting to incriminate the housekeeper LHP. I don't have the quotes handy but Patsy reported that the housekeeper would leave notes for her in that location. And, in fact, the...

To take the Ramsey's off my suspects list MurriFlower I would need clear evidence of an intruder in the house. Proving that Patsy (nor other Ramseys) wrote the ransom note would certainly help too. As it is - and going on what I have read - the DNA evidence of an intruder is not particularly...

While I'm happy to consider all sorts of possibilities Ottavi I think the best explanation for why there is a ransom note at all is that it was designed to implicate the housekeeper (and her circle). It is not so much what is in the note that indicates this, but where we are told it was found...

My preferred scenario, in the first instance, is that there was an attempt to implicate the housekeeper. But all such scenarios depend upon the ransom note being written AFTER the crime. We then need to suppose that the Ramseys - having just brutally murdered a little girl - sat down and...

CathyR. If we accept that the "small foreign faction" scenario is misinformation, I still want to ask - which "small foreign faction" did the author have in mind? I'd be inclined to say *none in particular* except for the detail of the threat of beheading. I think the author had some sff in mind...

This thread seems to have strayed from its focus a bit. As the person who started it, let me restate the initial question: IF we are to take the ransom note seriously, then to what small foreign faction does the note allude? Yes, most people don't take the ransom note seriously. I agree...

I'm not certain that there was a lone perp and that references in the RN to a group is just to confuse. It seems so, but there is some internal consistency in the note. As I pointed out in another thread a long time ago there is some rationale to the ransom amount. Yes, it conforms to JRs bonus...

I find the paintbrush a very odd item of evidence in this crime. It is conceivable, I think, that it was broken twice in order to isolate the word "Korea". Why the remainder of the brush has not been found is very mysterious. But did anyone really look for it?

Among the conflicting signals in the ransom note is this: Lots of things suggest an "inside job" (as JR himself admitted). The author of the note seems to know a lot about JR. Especially his business. And yet, the author does *not* seem to know him personally, because he (she?) mistakenly refers...

DeeDee249 writes: I can't believe Lockheed would know who it was and not make that known to JR or the FBI. The reason for this would be that the crime was intended as a warning/payback to Lockheed for criminal misdeeds in Korea, misdeeds to which Lockheed were certainly not going to confess...

I submit this 'Korean Connection Theory' because, after all these years, there needs to be some fresh thinking about this case, imo. The old RDI vs IDI battles aren't going anywhere. Credit must go to holdontoyourhat for the observation that the peculiarities of the handwriting might be...

I've posted a 'Korean connection theory' in the Member's Theories thread. It is based on the ransom note. Amongst other things I want to draw attention to several dots that need to be joined in this note: (1) the foreign faction, (2) beheading, (3) stray dog, (4) fat cat. Also the spelling of...

This is an elaborate and admittedly conspiratorial theory based on taking the ransom note at face value and trying to join together as many dots as possible. It is an attempt to think "outside the box" and offer an entirely new possibility... Our story starts in South Korea. Throughout the...

For the record joeskidbeck I'm largely of a RDI persuasion. That would be the simplest answer here. But I'm also aware that most of the evidence pointing in that direction is circumstantial. Imagine. You wake up one morning and there's a dead body in your basement. You've got some explaining to...

And, btw, the contracts involved in that Koreans vs Lockheed Martin case involved SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) i.e. hi-tech military computer graphics used in mapping. What field of computing was Ramsey's company in?

Holdontoyourhat, The case is: KOREA SUPPLY COMPANY v. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION KOREA SUPPLY COMPANY, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION et al., Defendants and Respondents. No. B136410. There was bribery involved. If you dig into it you find the stuff...

I would like to know more about John Ramsey's business connections. He sold AG to Lockheed Martin, correct? In the second half of 1996 Lockheed Martin became involved in a protracted and bitter legal battle with Korean industrial interests in which Lockheed were accused of supplying a system of...

Following this line of inquiry, we would then give more attention to the apparently political content in the RN, such as "we respect your business but not the government it serves" and the stuff about "fat cats". In part, the RN wants to suggest *political* motives behind this "foreign faction"...

Thanks for those additional insights holdontoyourhat. Very interesting. That is exactly the sort of help I was hoping for when I posted this thread. The RN, of course, consists of two types of evidence - the content, and the handwriting. It may be, as you suggest, that both components could...

Madeleine, I don't think the purpose of the RN was to convinced authorities it was a total stranger. As I've posted here in the past, I actually think the purpose of the RN (and much else) was to incriminate the housekeeper, LHP. That, in the first instance, was the Ramsey's plan. When that...