otg,
Thanks for the eggscellent diagram and corrections to JonBenet's height.
Just following your eggsample,
BOESP. :wink:
Wouldn't John also have had to consider clearance under and around the doorways too? In trying to do a visual "walk-through" in my mind, it just seems like it would be easier to manage a staircase, steps and a door by holding her away from the body? If he manipulated the body to a left-to-right angle, then JonBenet may not have fit in the stairwell and certainly not through a doorway.
I don't know. I'm not sure just how much pre-planning he might have done before picking her up and figuring in his own mind how he would maneuver her up to the kitchen. Maybe we're putting too much into this. I'm simply thinking there are better ways to carry her -- if he really didn't know she was already dead and that her body was stiff. But knowing that to be the case, he chose to carry her the way he did.
I can't see him purposely trying not to have contact with her and, giving the benefit of the doubt, maybe that was his way of trying not to contaminate the body.
Perhaps. But somehow I don't think preservation of the crime scene was his top priority that morning. Had it even been a concern at all for him, he would have called for help as soon as he knew she was dead.
You also mentioned the weight: 45 pounds. Could Patsy have managed carrying JonBenet downstairs since Patsy was in recovery at the time? I still have questions about Patsy coming down a winding staircase (or maybe she used the front staircase?) carrying a 45-pound body.
Personally, I doubt it. I mean, she could do it under extreme circumstances, but I don't think it would be easy. Come to think of it... I don't think I would want to carry a child (or even a tiny baby, or even a box of glassware) myself down a spiral staircase. In order to see each of your next steps, you would need to have your arms free to be able to see where to place your foot. Maybe that's why I've always doubted the idea that an unconscious JonBenet was carried down the spiral staircase, and so far as I know, the only reason people have speculated that is because of the garland that was found in her hair. To me, there are too many places in the house that the garland could have come from to feel it has to be tied to the spiral staircase only.
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BTW, this is not the thread this next part of my post applies to, but I don't post in that thread, and it wouldn't be welcomed anyway. But once and for all, the palm print in the basement was
NOT unidentified. As well, the Hi-Tec shoe print is
NOT unsourced to a Ramsey:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...benet-ramsey-john-and-patsy-ramsey-palm-print
"A footprint found in mold on the floor of the Ramseys' wine cellar, near where the girl's body was discovered, was linked by investigators to her then-9-year-old brother, Burke."
"Investigators also said a palm print on the door leading to the wine cellar is from Melinda Ramsey, JonBenet's adult half-sister, who was in Georgia at the time of the girl's death."
And even though it wasn't mentioned in this particular article, there was
NOT "a pubic hair in her blanket that doesn't match any of the ramseys."