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Burke also said that JonBenet got a dollhouse for Xmas, but she didn't.
icedtea4me,
Oh, but she did.
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Burke also said that JonBenet got a dollhouse for Xmas, but she didn't.
icedtea4me,
Oh, but she did.
Go to media links only, post #309.
I already know there's a dollhouse in her bedroom, but that doesn't mean she received it Xmas 1996. If we went by that logic, then that would mean she received the Beauty and the Beast bed linens for that Xmas too.
icedtea4me,
Why do you suppose BR states JB got this dollhouse for Christmas that year?
I doubt if that device was used for the actual strangulation. Nylon is stretchy and there were 17 useless inches of cord, I believe, between the stick and her neck. Steve Thomas says the cord was like a soft flat shoelace. That 17 inches doesn't include the length of cord looped around the stick. Some of the force used to pull the stick would merely go to compressing those loops against themselves. Keeping in mind that the business end of the device was more like a noose than a garrote, the direction of force would be upward on the single strand of cord and would lift the head/body up more than compress the neck--even if the perpetrator is kneeling on her back and I don't think there's evidence of that.
It would be more efficient to just loop that cord (or some other) around the neck, and once or twice around your hands, then pull in opposite directions more or less parallel to the ground. The "garrote" could be added later as window dressing.
I decided to make a shoelace garrote. I made a loop at the neck end like the Ramsey garrote and placed the cord around a 5lb dumbbell whose "neck" had a thick coating of Model Magic. I tied a simple knot around a dowel, passed it through the loop, and lifted the dumbbell with it. The shoelace instantly tightened all the way around the MM, making a 1/4" furrow on the front, back and sides. So I think the garrote could have been used to do the strangulation. It seemed shockingly efficient (even without all those loops at the stick end).
I agree with almost everything you said. The only difference I believe, is that the abuse started more recently, around summer 1996. I read somewhere (Bonita papers, maybe?) that the bedwetting started in the summer of 96. If she was fully potty trained, and regressed at that time, that's a red flag for abuse. RIP, little one. ❤There isn't one doubt in my mind that JR did this. I think once PR was diagnosed with cancer he was convinced she would die. Had she not been rich she would have. Once she started going out of state for her chemo is when I think JR began to SA little JBR. He is a situational offender, IMHO.
That night I think he went too far with her and he hurt and frightened her very badly. I think she was crying uncontrollably and he could not calm her. This enraged him , plus the fear of getting caught. He was going to be exposed. JR is a malignant narcissist and a sadistic bully. He is a lie. He hides behind religion. Jmo.
I think JR wrote that RN to scare PR into not calling the police for fear the kidnapper would kill her child. JR had a suitcase in the basement ready for him to carry JBR out of the house claiming he is going to pay the ransom money.
JR threw every single person in his life under the bus, anything to deflect from his guilt. He hired THREE lawyers immediately. One for himself, one for PR, and one for his EX-WIFE. REALLY John? Now just what did she know about you that was so damaging that you deemed it necessary to hired an attorney to keep your ex-wife quite? Maybe trouble with the daughter who was killed in the auto accident? I am only speculating.
Anytime there is SA in a family it is statistically the oldest male in the home.
Never have i thought BR was involved in any way, PR either. JBR was her little mini-me.
PR was getting chemo treatments. She probably had chemo-brain, or cognitive dissonance. She was also medicated. I think JR was gaslighting her.
The RN threatened to behead JBR if the police were called. JR wrote that to frighten PR so she would not call the police. JR needed enough time to get the body out of the house.
But PR called the police anyway. Why? Was she suddenly frightened of John? I think she was at that moment.
PR chose to stay in denial about JT, IMHO. She had to know what he did but blocked it out. Did the money and the lifestyle mean that much to her that she could bury the knowledge of what that man did to her child? She was also afraid of getting arrested for this. JR, ever the insidious manipulater, was giving her a great impression of being the only one defending her, the only person on her side. He acted coldly to her in public, in the interviews they did. He never touched or comforted her once. But he could not leave her because he had to control both her and the narrative he had created.
Insidiously evil, imo.
As far as fibers from PR, that home was just filthy. Even their friends admitted they also had poor hygiene.
All of this is just my worthless speculation and opinion. Once I saw JR clearly, it all fell into place and once you see his guilt you can't unsee it. It is clear, at least to me.
He was trying to book a flight out of Colorado 30 minutes after finding his daughter dead. Consciousness of guilt, imo. Who does that?
Everything he has said and done from throwing accusations on all of his friends, refusing to take a polygraph, refusing to cooperate with investigators, sueing everyone , ect. Only someone with a lot to hide behave the way he has.
Thanks for allowing me to to express my opinion- ok, vent, This case affects me still. He got away with this because of money and it sickens me to my soul. Poor JB deserves justice. She deserved better from her parents. Very heartbreaking and disturbing.
Use Burkes own words. "Someone took her down to the basement" Note, he did not say carried.The one thing I have always felt for certain, Burke couldn't have carried a limp Jon Benet down to the basement, to that back room at age 9. He was not a big kid. And if it was the flashlight, over the head after stealing pineapple from Burke's bowl, that would have occurred in the dining room, not in the basement. How did she get there?
Dr. Bernhard asked what he thought happened to his sister. Burke, showing the first signs of irritation during the interview, responded, "I know what happened, she was killed.” Burke's explanation to the doctor was “someone took her quietly and took her down in the basement took a knife out or hit her on the head." He said that the only thing he asked his dad was "where did you find her body", a highly unusual query from a child considering the possible questions a child might ask about the death of a sibling.
Good question. I don't think there is an account of exactly what was said and subsequently overheard, but there was also an incident I believe with BR and Doug Stine where they were in Doug's room and they were apparently discussing how the strangulation occurred, whether it was done manually or what. Susan Stine allegedly overheard the conversation and described to a friend their demeanor as "cold", as if they were just talking about a tv show. Yet another weird thing.That’s not all he said:
Bonita Papers on Burke Ramsey's Interview with Dr. Suzanne Bernard,Excerpt
How did he know these details? He had to know what took place in order to state “I know what happened”. Took out a hammer or something and hit her on the head (all the while) he was going through the motions. Hmmm ….
On the late evening of the 25th and early morning hours of the 26th all 3 people in that home took part in this crime. There was no intruder.
From Kolar's FF:Good question. I don't think there is an account of exactly what was said and subsequently overheard, but there was also an incident I believe with BR and Doug Stine where they were in Doug's room and they were apparently discussing how the strangulation occurred, whether it was done manually or what. Susan Stine allegedly overheard the conversation and described to a friend their demeanor as "cold", as if they were just talking about a tv show. Yet another weird thing.
But he disavows knowledge of knots altogether. That's a bit odd, right?My father was a Navy vet, and part and parcel was pride in knots and everyone knew it. I doubt John would knowingly draw attention to himself by featuring a relatively rare knot in the murder package.
Sure, especially considering he and FW were sailboat buddies!But he disavows knowledge of knots altogether. That's a bit odd, right?
I can't help but think if the materials found in JBR vagina were from the paintbrush and were transferred via digital penetration, then the cords were not staging but amateurish restraints. She screams once she realizes motive, head Injury, parents arrive on the scene. The stage was ready set. Suffocation by pillow on a already compromised person, wipe her down, tidy loose ends, and start making phone calls.Shambolic! I agree.
For generations the Ramsey family have passed down their traditions and skills in scouting, sailing, airplanes and aeronautics. John’s father, James D. Ramsey, was a scout during his youth, and became a distinguished pilot who flew numerous missions in World War II. After the war, Ramsey would continue his passion for flight and help advance the age of commercial airline travel as the Director of the Michigan Aeronautics Commission. He passed down his skills as a pilot to his sons, John and Jeff, and taught them everything about airplanes and how to fly. Long after John had left home for college and time in the Navy, James Ramsey stayed active in the Boy Scouts of America, as a sponsor and advisor for Explorer Post 317 in Michigan. In 1971, Ramsey planned and piloted a flight on which he presented an advanced Air Explorer Scout his distinguished Eagle award at 10,000 feet in the air. Following in his father’s footsteps, John would also become an advanced scout, pilot, and would go on to own multiple airplanes in his lifetime. In TOSOS, John reminisces about going out on his father’s boat and fishing with him on Lake Mecosta. John seemed to love boating and sailing on the water as much as he enjoyed flying in the air. As I mentioned before, John owned at least three sailing vessels throughout his life.
John’s first son, John Andrew Ramsey, didn’t fall far from the knots, knowledge, and know-how tree. JAR was in the scouting program for a long time during his adolescent and high-school years. He became a high-ranking advanced Eagle Scout. The climbing/outdoor rope and rucksack found in his room was his. John’s second daughter, Melinda also followed the tradition of the Ramsey family and became an Explorer Scout.
The culmination of all this knowledge, exptertise, and experience in these specific activities that require handling and tying of ropes into various scouting and nautical knots was funneled down to Burke Ramsey. Like all of the Ramsey men before him, he developed an enthusiasm and passion for scouting, sailing, and all things airplane. At the age of nine, almost ten, Burke had already become an advanced scout for his age. And why wouldn’t he be? He had excellent teachers with lifetimes of experience surrounding him. At the time of the murder, Burke had already been in the Boy Scouting program for over three years. He stood out by winning the Best All-around Camper award at Camp McSauba in his Charlevoix summer of 95’. This is the same year Burke took sailing lessons each day while at Summer Hill. He owned multiple pocketknives, including a Swiss Army Knife engraved with his name. In his 1998 interview with police, he rattled off the name of every tool on his knives, including “ this little hook thing that you tie better knots with.” Burke wore the best hiking shoes/boots at the time- Hi-Tec’s, complete with a compass on the shoelace to enhance his skills in scouting. In addition to the airplane wallpaper plastered on the walls of his bedroom, he showed off one of his many model airplanes by hanging it from the ceiling. This was the same model airplane that had white camping cord, tied in knots, hanging from it- shown in the crime scene photographs taken during the multiple-day processing of the house for evidence.
This is who Burke was. This is who the Ramseys were. The Ramseys didn’t approach these activities and develop these skill-sets, in a leisurely anecdotal hearsay, sort of way- but rather, a woven into the fabric of the family, sort of way. Given that a broken wooden stick, wood shavings, Hi-Tec shoeprint, white nylon camping cord, various knots, and a Swiss Army Knife are all found at ground zero of the crime scene, it's all important, it all matters.
"That one has a big knife, small knife, saw, corkscrew, screwdriver, flat head screwdriver, toothpick and tweezers. And I think that's it. And then I have another one that has a saw, scissors, it's got this little hook thing that you tie knots better with." - Burke Ramsey's 1998 interview with police.
“It reminds me of the days when my brother and I scrambled to get our gear into the small cedar strip fishing boat to go fishing with Dad on Lake Mecosta. And I think of the mornings when John Andrew was young and beside me preparing for takeoff into the rising sun in our small airplane.” - TOSOS.
Couldn't those fibers gotten transferred earlier in the day? JBR needed help wiping herself. This would have required PR to at least put a sleeve in close proximity to her genitalia. Proper wiping of a female is front to back.proust20,
I believe the fruit cocktail JB consumed took approx 30 to 40 minutes for her to digest. PR could have been taking care off last minute tasks before she actually headed up to bed and changed her cloths. The fiber evidence from her sweater (turned over to BPD a little over a year after JB passed) was a consistent match, where as JR fiber evidence was exact.
The question I’d like an answer to is why was JR fiber evidence in the folds of JB labia? Who was the SA of JB? I agree, was it a fit of rage or SA as the motive? Any family member could have their own personal reasons for a fit of rage. Maybe BR lost it over JB taking his food by hand or stomping on his toy. Maybe JB (on the 23rd) actually said she was going to tell on her abuser. After all, she was seen and spoken to sitting on the spiral staircase crying stating she didn’t feel pretty. I know she had put on makeup for the party and PR told her to march upstairs and take it off. If this is what upset her then it directly speaks to how the pageants were actually affecting her. It is not normal (IMO) for a 6 year old little girl to question whether or not she is pretty. There is more here then meets the eye. Pageants (IMO) for little girls is sexualizing them.
I wish they would open up the evidence files on this case. It seems the case was a total fumble from the moment the police arrived that morning. Which leads me further to believe that JR was on the horn calling government officials prior to the 911 call. Whatever happened all three members were involved in the coverup.
Same as JR, he could have wiped her after toileting earlier in the day as well. The parents fibers being there seems more plausible to be there because she still needed others to wipe her after toileting. What would be more telling would be I it was fibers from BR clothes. Sometimes you have weed out the noise of what would be there because of routine. I recall hearing she asked whoever was close to wipe her.Couldn't those fibers gotten transferred earlier in the day? JBR needed help wiping herself. This would have required PR to at least put a sleeve in close proximity to her genitalia. Proper wiping of a female is front to back.