All due respect, UKGuy, but I think you're missing my point.
Why add to the sexual abuse? Because it was chronic, not acute. Because it would show that abuse had been occurring in the past, not necessarily in the very recent past. Because once the police find evidence of chronic abuse they're probably going to arrest one or both parents.
Change that to a violent, acute injury that is inflicted the same night as the murder, and you change the whole complexion of the crime. Suddenly, we can blame any vaginal abnormalities on the murdering pedophile intruder, not on JR or PR or BR or anyone else who had regular access to the child.
Even today some of the experts disagree about the chronic abuse, though most do seem to believe it did happen. But the acute injury inflicted the night of the murder did exactly what it was supposed to do: hopelessly confuse the physical evidence of chronic abuse.
So the real question then becomes, why not stage JBR to look like she was the victim of a sex crime?
Because that is the one thing the perpetrator simply cannot afford to do.
In order to do everything that must be done by morning, the perp needs help. The non-murdering R must be convinced to give that help, and there's simply no way that will happen if the n.m.R believes that the other R adult is a murder and/or an abuser.
So stage the crime to look like JBR might have been the victim of a sibling rage attack, carefully conceal ALL evidence suggesting a sex crime, and you've got a pretty good chance of getting the n.m.R. to believe you and agree to help in the cover-up.
Then, re-stage the crime, but be careful even in the RN to make it sound like a kidnapping gone bad.
Look at it this way: no one who first saw JBR's body on the 26th seems to have thought that she looked like the victim of a pedophile. The body wrapped in the blankets looked more like a child snatched from her bed than a pedo's victim: only when the blankets fall away does the first incongruous note of those 'tied' hands start to register.
And it will take a full autopsy before anyone even starts to think "sex crime."
And somebody wanted it that way.
Dru,
I am not unsympathetic to what you suggest, just that the rationale for hiding chronic abuse with acute abuse seems weak, but this may simply be an indication of amateur staging?
Precisely, and if not, why any acute injury, which will bring the searchlight of attention?So the real question then becomes, why not stage JBR to look like she was the victim of a sex crime?
JonBenet's acute vaginal injury was either inflicted prior to any head injury or asphyxiation, or after one of the latter events.
The question on the table is really was JonBenet's acute injury an instance of current sexual molestation, or an attempt at staging?
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