Cherokee said:
What suspect? Who are you talking about?
Patsy is the ONLY suspect whose handwriting and linguistics match the ransom note.
Spelling? What similar spelling? Patsy purposely misspelled certain words early in the ransom note to try to disguise authorship and suggest a "foreign" terrorist who didn't know how to spell English. She forgot this ploy as the note rambled on.
He couldn't have written the ransom note or formed the garrotte, or done all the staging like tearing the duct tape, with regular cold weather gloves on ... they are too bulky.
Transference might explain Patsy's red fibers if they had been found ON the garrote knot, but it does not explain why they were found entwined IN the knot.
You're right. "Not every piece of evidence is going to make perfect sense" when trying to exhonerate the Ramseys. In fact, NONE of the actual evidence makes sense if you believe the Ramseys are innocent because that's where the evidence leads ... to the Ramseys.
Why would a homeless intruder stage a crime scene? What possible motive could he have? He commits his crime and he's gone. But the Ramseys would have motive to cover-up something to protect someone in the family. The Ramseys had access, motive and opportunity.
The Ramseys covered up what really happened to JonBenet.
IMO
This response to your post is similar to the response you made a couple of weeks ago to one of BC's posts when you took him to task about repeating facts that you felt were demonstrably incorrect. Since I have posted info about this suspect before, either you scrolled by (which is your option) or ignored the info contained.
The suspect which is the best fit,IMO, is Gary Oliva, someone who picked up mail and could eat a free meal at the church around the corner from the Ramseys. He was homeless in the sense that he apparently depended on public assistance for a place to stay and meals.
A sample of his handwriting was on the internet at Webbsleuths. Its as similar to the note as Patsy's is. The letters a and u are exactly the same. If you look at letter combinations within words such as the d and g in the word judge, as well as others, you can find similar combinations in the note. The phrasing is not much different. And Oliva was noted by another poster to have misspelled words with double consonants 5 times in his writings that she had to look at. But no report of his handwriting being analyzed has come out.
A statement that fibers from a paper bag were found on JB's bed and in the bag used to carry the body away was noted at Webbsleuths. Assuming that this is actual evidence it points to an intruder. If you think its made up then it neither adds nor detracts.
If John and Lou Smit were able to get through the window an intruder could have also. He wore winter gloves and might have had to close the basement door after coming up. Other than than that, he could roam around, locate bedrooms, maybe look in John's desk, and as long as he closed drawers there wouldn't be any evidence. He could take JB from her bed downstairs and fashion the garotte and not leave any evidence. He probably left his coat on when taking JB downstairs to avoid scratches. BTW, the Ramseys stated that they found drawers in a room near JB's open. Evidence that WAS found includes dark blue fibers on the body, brown fibers at the scene and animal hair on JB's hands. None of these was sourced.
Regarding the uniqueness of the case, IMO, its more likely that the best suspect, Gary Oliva, was able to pull off the crime as seen, than it is for 1 of the Ramseys to have done it and 1 or more covered it up, staying together and keeping that secret for 7+ years. Judge Carnes, who was given all the info we have and maybe more, wrote 93 pages that the intruder was more likely.
Gary Oliva: served time for assaulting a 7 year old girl, was evaluated as being a paranoid schizophrenic, was described by a friend as being weird and getting more sinister prior to the crime, called his friend out of state 3 days after the murder and broke down sobbing, saying he had hurt a child, was seen at the 1 year memorial of her death, said that JB revealed herself to him at death, had a stun gun when searched by the police 18 mo. after the crime. Motive: He fantasized about being a bad guy in crime movies and wanted to have some fun with a little girl and decided he could also taunt the parents by writing a phony note and doing a little staging after he finished with JB. Its generally agreed that the note and what happened after JB's death was staging. Why? Because he had a strong impulse to do it and enjoyed it, and had little to lose.
If the BPD had followed up on the tip his friend gave them and thoroughly checked out Oliva, we would probably be looking at 2 main suspects, the Ramseys and Oliva.
On the window sill and grate, I see your point but I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on that. I wonder if the light was unscrewed, or was actually switched off,A/O was on when the Ramseys got home at 9:00?
The ransom note: To the untrained eye, it looks possible that either Patsy or Oliva could have written it. It has a phony quality about it due to length ( as identified by the FBI) and the figure $118,000, which is symbolic of something else besides a ransom demand.
--------If Patsy wrote it, her point of view was an outsider broke in to kidnap JB, someone from Access. She would think that the BPD would come and find the body by 8:00, and she would be stuck with questions of why her handwriting is similar. Then she might think that she needed to remove the body and put it say, behind the church for the plan to have a chance. All the other staging doesn't help a lot with the body there.
------------If Oliva wrote it what you see is what you get. He pretends to be an arch-criminal who has kidnapped JB. He makes lots of references to crime movies, acts boastful and threatening, and controlling. He was very careful with spelling, word usage, puncuation. But he overstepped his ability, IMO, in that 3 sentences don't make good sense. Patsy would tend not to make this mistake, either intentionally or naturally. IMO, the content of the note and the crime point to someone with major personality problems.
