Yes, it is apparent that the nightgown shouldnt be there. Neither should the blanket and most of all the little girl! It could be JR simply states the obvious, as you say, or he may not have been the one to place it there.
I too see different stagers at different times. My puzzlement about this crime scene is how JB ends up with drops of blood on her nightgown (if it was later staging) and on the blanket. JB had already been cleaned up and redressed. Presumably, the blanket and nightgown were subsequent to her redressing. Or is it that the nightgown was taken from the area where a sexual assault occurred? Just thinking out loud here. I obviously dont know.
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questfortrue,
BBM: ITA. What is interesting about the staging is how quickly it was undertaken.
The bloodstains on the blanket and nightgown may have arrived accidentally, but this I doubt otherwise why leave the nightgown in the wine-cellar?
The nightgown is also interesting for another reason: it never went the same way as JonBenet's size-6 underwear.
It looks as if JonBenet was wearing the nightgown when Patsy fashioned her asymmetric ponytails, which might represent prior staging.
So it might be the nightgown becomes bloodstained as JonBenet is being redressed, so is rejected as staging clothing, or she was wearing it when she was sexually assaulted?
Placing the nightgown in the wine-cellar offers a glimpse into the R's mindset prior to the 911 call, since they must know it will eventually be found, but hopefully not before they pull off their
Kidnapping presentation!
It appears as if JR was the person who redressed JonBenet in the size-12's and forgot or deliberately never told PR he had removed all the evidence, hints of the flashlight here.
What I think most shocking is that I reckon it was Patsy who ligature asphyxiated JonBenet. JR was really just a cleanup guy who undone most of PR's forensic mistakes, in this he was successful, and probably the reason why the case never ever made it to the court-room?
This is why JR was always intimating that it was an
inside job etc. He could see that the evidence all pointed in one direction and given a shove he would testify against PR, to save BR!
Assuming Kolar is correct, the primary crime-scene seems to be located in JonBenet's bedroom. The disarray of the bedroom lends itself to this idea, adding in the feces and the discarded clothing then we have a pathology that is being hidden from us, via legal strictures on evidence disclosure, but JonBenet's injuries as annotated in the autopsy report suggest a physical struggle.
So if the case, as alleged, is BDI and you have this sexual pathology playing itself out on JonBenet, with disastrous results, has anything changed in the years that followed, is this pathology still meandering on a path towards another tragedy?
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