Even JR can tell you, it wasnt revenge it was an accident:
After JonBenéts body was found, victim advocate Grace Morlock told detectives, John Ramsey said more than once that he didnt think the kidnapper meant to kill his daughter, because she was wrapped in her blanket.
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Lawrence Schiller, page 80
Also:
Ex-FBI Profiler Gives JonBenet Take
The Associated Press, By JENNIFER MEARS
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - The key to solving JonBenet Ramsey's slaying may be contained in 430 words of small, sometimes shaky script that two experts suggest were written to throw investigators off the killer's track. As the investigation winds down and heads toward a grand jury, the 2 1/2-page ransom note looms large as one uncontaminated piece of evidence in the 15-month-old case.
Yet the note initially caused trouble: Police, accepting it as proof of a kidnapping and assuming the missing child had been whisked away, allowed friends and family to wander unescorted through the house and taint the crime scene.
No officer was with John Ramsey, for instance, when he went to a basement storage room and returned carrying his daughter's beaten and strangled body.
``The note was totally ridiculous from the standpoint of having any credibility as a kidnap note,'' former FBI profiler Robert Ressler told The Associated Press. Police ``wasted effectively eight hours of crucial time in buying this kidnap note.''
But, said Ressler, ``get the person that wrote that note and that person may not have killed JonBenet, but they certainly know what happened.''
For that reason, he said, ``It's probably the best piece of evidence they have.''
Police Cmdr. Mark Beckner, who took over the investigation in October, called the note important but would not say what conclusions authorities have drawn from it.
``Listen Carefully!'' the note begins. ``We are a group of individuals that represent a small foreign faction. We respect your business but not the country that it serves. At this time we have your daughter in our possession.''
Ressler has assisted with hundreds of investigations, including those of multiple murderers Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy. Now a private consultant in forensic behavioral science and based in Virginia, Ressler said the evidence, including the autopsy, suggests JonBenet was killed accidentally and ``an elaborate cover-up was done to divert police away from the crime.''
He believes, for instance, that the child was garroted to divert police from what he believes is the true cause of her death: a blow to the head. The writing of the note, he said, was part of the overall effort to send police astray.
If police had not fallen for the
"If there was simply staging without undoing, it would still point to a perpetrator who is intimately connected to the victim. The added element of undoing further points to this type of connection, with the most likely suspects being the Ramseys."
"Staging coupled with undoing points very strongly to a Ramsey family member; the most likely scenario being an accident followed by guilt resulting in the need for undoing. Staging was then employed in an attempt to mislead investigators.
A revenge based homicide would be committed by someone far more interested in getting in and out quickly, and then focusing on establishing an alibi.
There would be no interest in lingering at the crime scene, staging the crime scene, cleaning, covering, comforting and redressing JonBenet."
Great points!