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There are many reasons why, nearly twenty years after the fact, the tragic death of six year old Jon Benet Ramsey still attracts so much interest. There is the lurid child beauty pageant element of course, and the fact it occurred on Christmas night, in her own home. But the enduring mystery is...

Sounds "intriguing." However, even as cynical as I am, I would be dubious about any doctor patiently giving someone advice about how to explain the death of their child. Of course, this same doctor did innocently (and inexplicably) explain away JBR's alarming number of visits to his office...

Burke's interview alone should have caused the authorities to become aggressive in going after the Ramseys. His responses indicate serious psychological problems and there are obvious indications he was concealing something. What kind of District Attorney is satisfied with this? John...

I don't have the book yet. Does Kolar discuss the 911 call placed a few days before Christmas? I've suspected that somehow that is connected....

I started out as PDI, influenced heavily by her public demeanor, actions that morning, and later ST's book. Gradually, however, I leaned towards BDI. I think the revelations in Kolar's book buttress this belief. It should be obvious to everyone at this point that there was something...

That's why this case is so compelling. The Ramseys' actions after JBR was found are so foreign to every parent that it's impossible not to suspect them for that alone. However, the coldness and the detachment they exhibited towards the dead JBR stands out in stark contrast to the way the living...

Forgive me if I'm missing something. We've been told that John Ramsey oddly left the house for about an hour that morning, before JBR's body was discovered, to "check the mail." I believe this report first appeared in Vanity Fair. How does it take someone an hour to check the mail? The...

As a parent, I think the single most disturbing element of the Ramseys' behavior was JR making a phone call to arrange a flight less than half an hour after finding his daughter murdered. No matter what scenario you envision regarding the death of JBR, how can that be considered normal behavior...

Lots of strange aspects to this case, and all of them stem from the the story (or stories) told by the brother. Remember, his word alone identifies this as a home invasion/abduction. There is no one else to verify or refute his account. News reports initially said that the brother watched his...

The Ramseys were treated so unusually by the police and the entire Boulder justice system because they were extremely wealthy. Their case is a textbook example of how the law has one standard for average people and another one entirely for the rich and influential. No ordinary family would...

This is a question that I can't really make an educated guess at. So many things contradict each other in this case that no one scenario really works. One thing I know I wouldn't see is a stranger or strangers killing Jonbenet and writing a ransom note. Because of the horrible (but unmarked...

So there were two nonwhite girls who wanted to play with Jonbenet, and Patsy made up the excuse that she was sick? Am I right in assuming that these girls were unknown to the family? Were they also unknown to Jonbenet? I have to defend Patsy on this one. If two kids I didn't know showed up...

While I think the ransom note alone proves there was no intruder, and I tend to lean towards Burke causing JBR's death in some manner, there are real problems with these theories, as well. The biggest mystery in this case, imho, is the horrific skull wound. If it was indeed some eight inches...

I find all the sexual/satanic conspiracy theories intriguing. Imho, something was going on with JBR long before Christmas night. I've always found it very curious that there was no video tape of the Ramsey kids on Christmas morning. To those of us whose children were born during the dawn of the...

This doesn't surprise me in the least. From the outset, virtually all the talking heads on television were inexplicably sympathetic to the Ramsey family. The coverage has always been one-sided, despite the protestations that the media was "unfair" or "tried" the parents. Aphrodite Jones is...

Madeleine, Your speculation is as good as mine. As I noted, this case is baffling and no theory really makes sense. Your hypothesis that JR killed Jonbenet and then told Patsy Burke did it is certainly another possibility that I didn't consider. Btw, I am by no means saying that John is more...

I've been studying this case since the very beginning, but have only come to a few firm conclusions. 1. I think it's almost 100% certain that Patsy wrote the ransom note. I say this because it simply isn't believable that a real kidnapper wrote it. It certainly has her personality all over...

The 911 call is yet another curiosity which may or may not have a bearing on what really happened to JonBenet. Certainly, it is at least tragically ironic that the call was placed only a few days before the little girl who lived in that house died a horrible death. As with all of these...

John's conflicting accounts of what happened when they arrived home Christmas night. Did he carry a sleeping JBR up to bed, or did he read her a bedtime story? One has to be a lie. Patsy's conflicting accounts- to cite just one example, did she check in JBR's room first and find her gone, or...

I understand that children love their video games- I have children myself, and know all too well how addictive they are. However, it begs credulity, I think, to imagine a nearly 10 year old displaying that kind of lack of curiosity or emotion about the brutal, sudden death of his little sister...