singularity,
You are spot on with the dysfunctional family part. I reckon both JR and PR were simply unaccustomed to their realized wealth, and in their attempt to play the part ended up neglecting their children?
Unaccustomed to or so full of themselves and their pet projects they fail to deal with the big picture?
I do think BR was jealous of JonBenet, not only that, it must have been obvious that Patsy prioritized JonBenet over BR, e.g. she gets extra tuition, dance classes, nice clothes, trips to other cities, etc, what does BR get ?
That's a loaded question for several reasons. You ask what does Burke get? What does Burke want? Many believe he is autistic, has ADHD, or a list of other disorders. Maybe he likes solitude and has no desire for much interaction with other children and prefers the adults in his life to leave him alone. Burke is the enigma in this family equation because we don't know enough about him. If he's truly autistic, there are so many levels of it. I doubt he is on the level of Rain Man going by what little footage we have seen of him and even if he is not autistic, there's clearly something a bit odd going on. He might just be antisocial, shy, and IMO he might be a victim of abuse.
While I have viewed the Burke footage and read the interviews like everyone else, something stuck out to me last night while checking out the shakedown site. THis must have slipped by me the first time I saw it but it waved a red flag last night....
What would you fight with your sister about?
Burke: Um...Ah.....about not wanting her to play video games.
You don't like to share with her?
Burke: I-- cause I just don't like the music, it's like de, de, da, de, de, de, de so
He clearly hates the repetitive music of video games. Nowadays a lot of games have real music from actual bands/artists but in the 90s, a lot of games had some irritating sound effects that was just a continuous wall of noise on a loop. Different levels would feature some different music and this comment from Burke reinforces my earlier point about Jonbenet being too young to play most Nintendo games. She would keep "dying" on the first level, so this means Burke(or anyone in the room) would continually have to hear that same audio over and over and over again.
Since he only had the N64 for mere hours before the murder, he is clearly talking about the NES. The most played game on NES was Super Mario Bros. Since Jonbenet likely would never pass the first level, for those of you who never played Nintendo, here is the first level and listen to the sound effects....
[video=youtube;PsC0zIhWNww]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsC0zIhWNww[/video]
Did Burke actually prefer to play video games with the TV on mute? That would be very strange to say the least. Which leads to the question....why? Is this something that people with various disorders suffer from? Did something ever happen to him while playing video games and the music is a potential trigger? No way to really answer this I suppose. Did he simply hate HER playing it?
It might be due to medical diagnosis Patsy has written BR off, discounted any potential, and decides to focus on JonBenet, who definitely exhibits some smarts?
If he is the odd duckling, its not surprising that Patsy would focus most of her attention on Jonbenet when going into remission. She could mold Jonbenet into whatever Patsy wanted her to be. Going by the history of Patsy's family, JOnbenet's future was set in stone whether she liked it or not. Its unfortunate we can never know how much she truly enjoyed doing the pageants.
She may not have "discounted his potential" but simply cast him aside as her own interests were not going to be able to include Burke. Maybe she expected John to pick up the slack as far as Burke goes and there are signs they shared some interests.
If the case were PDI then Patsy would have known to cleanup the breakfast table, to make sure there were size-12's in JonBenet's underwear drawer and to dress JonBenet in a female pair of long johns.
Obviously I disagree with that and even if I weren't PDI, I wouldn't have an issue with that table not being cleaned up. So much chaos in the house that night and I'm sure that bowl of pineapple and two glasses were not high priority. It may not even have crossed anyones mind.
We know she would occasionally wear Burke's old clothing, some female WS members have also said they've done the same thing in childhood so I don't consider the long johns to be a huge issue. There's a variety of reasons discussed for the use of the size 12s and those panties don't rule anyone in or out. Each "DI" could make a case for them.
JR has the opposite problem he is left to explain away events down in the basement, and although we know not their genesis, we know they probably had nothing to do with JR and everything to do with BR?
JOhn is going to be down there staging whether its JDI, PDI, or BDI. He certainly took huge risks going back down there after 6 am and while many facts show that an intruder never existed, the simple fact John repeatedly goes down there and goes off the grid IMO is the smoking gun as far as no IDI is concerned.
Fathers of murder victims do not stage basements for strangers who murder their children.
So what we have to do is refute Kolars BDI All, even demonstrating that BR was a normal healthy nine year old would do the trick?
Even if I were to get remotely close to believing BDI, I could never fall in line with Kolar's version. he basically places it all on Burke. IMO if Burke did have something to do with it, he bludgeoned her and that's when he exits stage left of this equation. Patsy and/or John take over from there and Burke is sent to her room.
I wanted to go into more detail on Kolar and refuting BDI All but someone just came over. We'll revisit that issue later.
Merry Christmas everyone!
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