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You certainly have come up with a theory which fits much of the evidence. It could have happened this way - certainly no reason for me to deny that it could.
I find it unlikely though. But then I find all BDI theory unlikely.
BDI always has to explain both JR and PR doing all the staging to protect BR.
But, BR isn't going to prison at age 9. He's going to a juvenile shrink ward for a while, and this is embarrassing to the family - but is it more embarrassing than being a murder suspect? More embarrassing than having people think you diddled your daughter then killed her?
Yes, just about any BDI theory is going to have both parents working together to do the cover-up. Thats because logic tells anyone that a child would be incapable of doing any of the elaborate staging that would be required to come up with something that would fool so many people (even to this day) into believing that someone came into the home with the intent of kidnapping, only to end up killing their hostage
before they even leave the house.
Can I ask this question, not just of you,
Chris, but anyone who wants to answer... Before this happened, and before we all got so consumed with reading all we could about it, and we all read about the fact that Burke was one month shy of being 10-years-old, and that Colorado law does not allow anyone under the age of ten to be charged with a felony, did you know that? In fact, do you know right now what that age is in your own state (or country, for our international guests)?
In addition to it being unlikely that the Ramseys knew that, if they were indeed faced with the situation as I have suggested, I dont think they would have been thinking clearly enough to decide to go ahead and call the police for the reason that their son couldnt be charged with a crime anyway.
I always find a cover-up to protect Burke an unlikely scenario.
I do too!! I also find it unlikely that this whole thing would happen. Its
unbelievably unlikely that a 6yo girl could be sexually assaulted, strangled, hit over the head, washed up, wrapped up, and laid out in the basement of her own home on Christmas night. But as unlikely as it is, it happened. Dont look for something likely in this. Youll never find it.
Consider that had there been an indictment, and the Rs were found guilty at trial, they'd have "lost" Burke for all practical purposes. Implicating one's self in a murder doesn't seem like a good way to protect your son. If BR did kill JBR, accidentally, the best course of action for the Rs would be call the police and not touch one damn thing. Would have been best for BR too.
I totally agree with that. Its what I would do. Its what, Im sure, you would do. Its probably what every single person reading this would do. But that doesnt mean that every single person who might ever be confronted with such a situation would do the same thing.
BDI usually has JR covering up to save himself - the presumption being JR did the prior molestation. But again, is it better to be suspected of molestation, or suspected of both molestation and murder? And what's the probability that JR could be proven to be the prior abuser? Proof as opposed to suspicion.
I dont believe John Ramsey ever molested JonBenet -- that night, or any night prior to that. Nor do I believe that it was anything done by Patsy -- as a punishment, as any kind of rough handling, or as any kind of staging to make it look like the work of an intruder. Had it been done as something to make it look like the work of someone from outside the house (Jammies sick puppy), why would she have been wiped down and cleaned of any blood? Wouldnt it be better to leave it on and look even more horrifying? I dont think they believed that anyone would know about the sexual aspect of this. They did most of the cover-up to hide the fact that she had been sexually assaulted (which, to me, shows what their motivation was in making it seem like something it was not).
The really big problem with BDI is that PR's involvement must be explained. I take it for granted that JR doesn't tell PR of the prior molestation. But then we are back to staging for the sake of Burke, and I've already outlined why I'm skeptical about that. What mother's natural instinct would be to stage a crime scene - including tying the end of the "garrote" around a stick while looking at your dead daughter?
Again John doesnt know about any prior molestation at that time. As for who did what in the cover-up, I dont think (and this is only my opinion here) Patsy would have been able to do anything to JonBenets body after she was found dead. I think that once the decision was made and agreed on as the best thing to do, John would simply man-up and do what he felt was necessary, telling Patsy to use her journalism skills and go write a ransom note while he took care of the things that had to be done. Same reason he would have her make the 911 call -- she would be so much more believable as the distraught parent because of all the raw emotion.
Even if JR cons PR into going along with the staging "to protect Burke" she must surely figure out later that something more was at stake. At that point it's probable that she talks to authorities.
Again, IMO, mute point.
It might fit the evidence, and I can't say that it's impossible, but my gut says it's highly improbable. I think PR was far more involved than just being a mom who got talked into helping with a cover-up to protect her son.
Involved in what way? Tell me about it.
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