why_nutt
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tipper said:
The Ramseys, collectively and individually, are not stupid people (despite their occasional efforts during their interviews to seem like nothing more than ignorant straw-chewing hayseeds from tiny towns who don't know nuthin' 'bout birthin' no babies, or how the intricacies of signing contracts for various legal services requires a large degree of mental sharpness to make the contract valid). Now, these not-stupid Ramseys know certain common-sense things. One: Dropping 45 pounds of dead weight down a set of stairs onto an uncarpeted wooden floor is going to make a very loud sound, especially when that sound occurs in the silence of night, without the mitigating ambient noise of ordinary outside sound from the activity of daytime comings and goings of the neighbors. Thus, this is likely to attract the attention of Burke, who has already been established earlier in the evening as a child who is not tired in the least despite all the Christmas excitement; who, indeed, may still be awake precisely because it was an exciting Christmas and he had awesome stuff to play with, stuff that he was not going to be allowed to play with for more than a week, what with the trip to Charlevoix followed by the immediate trip on the Disney Big Red Boat. So, there is one reason why dropping JonBenet was not an option. If you are conducting a coverup, the last thing you want is for your victim's brother to witness you doing it.
Dropping JonBenet off her balcony was also not an option. The balcony was pretty obviously never used as a balcony, more like a second-floor open-air bay window, likely with the doors out to it locked to keep a person in the bedroom from getting out onto it.. Just how stupid do you think the Ramseys would be, to let their four-year-old, five-year-old, six-year-old daughter have easy access to a second-floor balcony she could fall from? The balcony's railing was open grillwork and easy for a small child to climb up. So a person of common sense would likely agree that the best thing to do would be to keep the balcony door from the bedroom locked. But this causes a major problem. How would a Ramsey parent credibly stage a scenario where their small daughter got the door unlocked and got out on the balcony without their knowledge? For that matter, if you think about it, a locked door may also explain why John and Patsy are not keen on pushing the idea that an intruder came in through the balcony, since they would have to claim that the intruder either had a key for the balcony (which is unlikely since it would not have had the identical lock as all the other house door keys they gave out, not to mention not likely to have a lock that locks from outside as opposed to inside, given its extremely rare need to be unlocked from the balcony side). And the Ramseys could not credibly claim that the balcony door was broken, because that would require actually breaking it, and yet another last thing a person would do is engage in the very loud process of breaking a wooden door on Christmas night, when the next-door neighbor is so close Burke could have thrown a Little League pitch and hit the neighbor's house.
