sandraladeda said:
I have pondered this posssibility, but if this is the case, then John is absolutely not involved in the death and cover up. In this case, the first John hears is "JB is missing and there's a note from kidnappers!". If he looks at the note and his BS meter goes off ("waitasec! This is Patsy's handwriting! This has Patsy written all over it!") don't you think he would say "come on Patsy, this is a joke, right? Where is she?" I find it hard to believe that he would think "Hmmm. I think Patsy wrote this. But okay, I'll go along with calling the police, see where this leads..."
imho
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Good point, but is it possible that his "BS meter" didn't go off enough to indicate that it was Patsy's writing? I think, initially at least, it may have just gone off enough to indicate the note itself was "childish". In the "shock of the moment", if the thought ever entered his brain that Patsy could have constructed the note, I imagine he pushed that thought out and went into "denial overdrive", just as many people often do when they are told by someone that their spouse is having an unsuspected affair.
After the call did not come on the morning of the 26th, I think that just maybe the "BS Meter" began going into overdrive, and this is why he couldn't be in the same room with Patsy much less show her comfort. After he found the body, maybe the rage LA saw was combined with the fury of a parent who has found their murdered daughter, combined with that of a father who suspects someone very close to him. If he was molesting JBR or if he knew that BR had carried "playing doctor too far", it would make sense that all of these "lightbulb moments" would cause him to immediately "lawyer-up" and immediately plan and execute an excape to Atlanta to get to the bottom of the whole matter and to set all his 'ducks in a row' to prevent his entire life from being destroyed.
John's behavior seemed to be indicative of at least one of these four things and maybe a combination of two or three of the following:
1) A terribly nervous father who was totally innocent of involvement in the murder/homicide/cover-up.
2) A confused father who highly suspected that the note was not ligitimate and after he discovered the body. He strongly felt that the entire scenerio was created by someone close to him.
3) A guilty father who could not face/support his accomplice.
4) A father who was guilty of prior abuse of JBR or at the very least guilty of earlier helping to cover-up that his son had crossed the line when 'playing doctor'.
Possibly 1 and 2 or 1,2, and 4.
Or maybe it was just 3............... but because of ALL ARROWS pointing to Patsy and much fewer pointing to John, I tend to shy away from number 3.