If the hair had to be cut at autopsy, that tells me that the stick was not used to pull the cord tight to strangle, but was simply staging.
It appears that her hair is also tangled in the knot around her neck.... Or is it just twisted up by the rope like her necklace? I'm trying to come up with a theory that makes sense to me, so if the knot was tied while around her neck tangling her hair in the knot, I would probably discount an accidental theory.
RaeL,
There used to be a popular theory that the paintbrush and ligature was used as an Erotic Asphyxiation Device, and it all went wrong.
Examining the evidence I noted that JonBenet's hair was embedded into the knotting on the alleged EA Device, meaning it could not have functioned as advertised, i.e. JonBenet would be in extreme pain as the roots of hair were pulled out.
This combined with the Coroner not citing that he found JonBenet's hair severed from the alleged EA Device, allowed me to assume he or an associate had cut it?
So I largely discounted the Erotic Asphyxiation theory from then on and assumed the wine-cellar crime-scene to be mostly fabricated.
I posted my thoughts onto WS. Along with the speculation that the ligature asphyxiation was done to mask a manual asphyxiation, since the head blow whenever delivered plainly needs no staged explanation.
So it could be JonBenet had her vagus nerve compressed and she lost consciousness, falling into a coma. It might be that the head blow was a belated attempt at staging or simply to kill her, finally the ligature was used to kill her?
The exact details and sequence of events can be debated, many do as their theories rely on indeterminate criteria but JonBenet in the wine-cellar is a staged crime-scene, likely the result of many hands.
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