Or for those of you who aren't sure and open to all RDI scenarios....
If BDI.....
do you think he will do it again? (in one form or another)
do you think he will ever feel guilty/overwhelmed and confess?
do you think he's old enough to realize what happened?
in general,do you think that someone with severe personality issues can really be treated or just kept under control?
and if it's the case with BR what will happen after JR's gone and there's no one there to protect/control him?
I am also not 100% BDI, but I lean more and more in that direction, as it seems to explain a lot of gaps.
I don't think he'll do it gain. If there were frequent violent temper outbursts (as his mother had) would that be something that would remain secret? Given his family's notoriety, I think not.
I don't think he will ever feel guilty. He may not have even been aware he'd actually killed her- and his parents did "fix" it for him, after all.
Is he old enough NOW or was he old enough THEN (1996) to realize what happened? YES, to both.
That type of personality disorder doesn't go away by itself. It may be controlled by medication, but that assumes it has even been recognized as a problem and been treated. It seemed that as he grew and attended college that he had friends and a normal life for a young man of that age. However, his demeanor and behavior at the time of JB's murder were abnormal by anyone's standards (except for people unwilling or unable to recognize just how abnormal it really was). Yet I doubt his parents felt it was unusual. They also inexplicably decided not to discuss his sister's death with him at all- that in itself is abnormal. He wasn't a toddler- he was nearly 10! Of course, they SAID they didn't discuss it with him- we don't really know for sure. I tend to believe that it was discussed on some level, as was the "plan" to keep him out of it and cover up the crime (though they probably did not discuss the details of the coverup/staging).
As to what will happen when he is alone? Be interesting to see. With his grandparents and mother already gone, JR and his aunts/uncles/cousins are all he would have left if he hasn't married by then. Of Patsy's two surviving sisters, only Aunt P has been vocal on the case, as the other sister has not commented publicly and seems to want to distance herself from the whole mess. (distancing is a family trait). He also has his half-siblings and their families, who also have been pretty quiet about the case from the beginning.
Maybe he'll write a book one day, but don't expect any revelations. I've said this before- he will not be the hero in this case. He doesn't have it in him. Like many children of wealthy families, the most horrible "situations" can be fixed with power and money. (The Kennedys come to mind on several levels- from Ted Kennedy and the travesty of Chappaquiddick to the Martha Moxley murder to the rape coverup of yet another Kennedy cousin- the list goes on).
Children in these families, including adult children) usually never have to face up to the consequences of their actions. Lawyers step in, back-room deals are made, etc. They continue their adult lives after such crimes, uncaring, unrepentant and unapologetic but mostly free from consequences.