ThinkHard
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So thinking about the timeline in regards to the pineapple....as far as we know pineapple was found in her small intestines, but none was found in her stomach. I believe that is correct? I belief it was also stated that there was green pieces in her sm. Intestines from the pineapple.
Going off that info, here are some thoughts.
It can take the body anywhere from 2.5 to 5 hours to completely empty the stomach from a full meal. But if we just look at fruit and more of a snack then a meal, those numbers change a bit. That said, it would still take 20-30 minutes for the pineapple to break down enough to even begin to enter the small intestines. Depending how much she ate would determine the amount if time until complete emptying, and since we don't know that, it can't completely be determined. But if no pineapple was left in her stomach it seems to me the minimum amount of time before death would be 30 minutes.
Additionally it also seems to me that whether the blow on the head killed her or not, it certainly would have stressed out the body and diverted resources away from digestion and towards keeping vital organs going. Which makes me think digestion would have likely halted or drastically slowed at the time of the blow.
This makes me think something happened after eating of the pineapples, rather then the pineapples causing the fight.
Since the bowl was left unfinished it also appears something distracted them.
One thought I had was a discussion about Xmas gifts, perhaps JonBenet taunted him about getting more. Perhaps the subject of the unwrapped gifts in the basement came up and both kids headed downstairs to look for them, with the flashlight. Maybe this accounts for them being partially unwrapped?
Could this be what the fight escalated over? Is that why Patsy was so insistent it was her who unwrapped them?
One thing I know birthdays around Xmas kids hate is getting gipt on gift and having bday presents wrapped in Xmas paper. Could JonBenet have teased him over this stuff? Could this be a hot button topic for him, one that brought up all his insecurities about his place in the family?
One last thought about the green pineapple. When I cut up pineapple for kids I'm very carefully to cut off the outside and the nubs, I'm sure not everyone is, but Patsy the perfectionist strikes me as a detail person who would do this also.....so does the fact that JBR had green pineapple in her stomach point to the possibility a child could have cut it up?
Going off that info, here are some thoughts.
It can take the body anywhere from 2.5 to 5 hours to completely empty the stomach from a full meal. But if we just look at fruit and more of a snack then a meal, those numbers change a bit. That said, it would still take 20-30 minutes for the pineapple to break down enough to even begin to enter the small intestines. Depending how much she ate would determine the amount if time until complete emptying, and since we don't know that, it can't completely be determined. But if no pineapple was left in her stomach it seems to me the minimum amount of time before death would be 30 minutes.
Additionally it also seems to me that whether the blow on the head killed her or not, it certainly would have stressed out the body and diverted resources away from digestion and towards keeping vital organs going. Which makes me think digestion would have likely halted or drastically slowed at the time of the blow.
This makes me think something happened after eating of the pineapples, rather then the pineapples causing the fight.
Since the bowl was left unfinished it also appears something distracted them.
One thought I had was a discussion about Xmas gifts, perhaps JonBenet taunted him about getting more. Perhaps the subject of the unwrapped gifts in the basement came up and both kids headed downstairs to look for them, with the flashlight. Maybe this accounts for them being partially unwrapped?
Could this be what the fight escalated over? Is that why Patsy was so insistent it was her who unwrapped them?
One thing I know birthdays around Xmas kids hate is getting gipt on gift and having bday presents wrapped in Xmas paper. Could JonBenet have teased him over this stuff? Could this be a hot button topic for him, one that brought up all his insecurities about his place in the family?
One last thought about the green pineapple. When I cut up pineapple for kids I'm very carefully to cut off the outside and the nubs, I'm sure not everyone is, but Patsy the perfectionist strikes me as a detail person who would do this also.....so does the fact that JBR had green pineapple in her stomach point to the possibility a child could have cut it up?