It is extremely rare for children under 10 to commit murder, especially without a gun being involved or the victim being an infant or toddler. Such cases are so unusual as to barely exist. Meanwhile murders of children by parents are common.
If Burke was the only possible suspect, I would simply accept that something extremely unusual happened. But he was in the house with at least two vastly more likely suspects, i.e. Patsy and John. The possibility that it was an adult is far more likely than a 9 year old killing a 6 year old.
With enough research, someone can find maybe two or three cases similar to the BDI theory in the last few decades. Meanwhile, mothers killing their children take place on a weekly, even daily basis.
Peppermintswirlz,
Thats how I used to see the case. For a long time I discounted BDI since it appeared so far out, and like you say there are two more likely suspects. So for a while I moved between PDI and JDI, with PDI being the stronger of the two.
Yet when I checked PDI and JDI together, a tick list, strength and weakness etc. Neither theory explained all the evidence, bizarrely only BDI did that as its assumed the parents are staging Burke out of the homicide.
If someone can fill the holes in PDI then I'll switch back to that, although currently BDI explains more than PDI or JDI does separately.
BlueCrab's early BR theories revolved around a group thing, done behind the parents back with BR's accomplices fleeing into the night on foot or bycycle.
This helped me to ignore BR for a long time, until little clues were developed such as LHP's remarks, and recognizing JonBenet had been sexually assaulted, and that the Coroner said to Steve Thomas it could be
chronic?
Add in Kolar's theory about SBP etc, and you might have a recipe, but like you say, its a big ask for many to think a 9 year old boy did it?
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