BlueCrab
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Dru said:BlueCrab, I'd like to take your points one at a time, if I may.
1. I agree that there was no intruder. But why would an exhausted six-year-old willingly accompany her nine-year-old brother down to the kitchen for a pineapple snack in the middle of the night? The children would have had to wait at least until their parents were in bed, if not longer, to do this, at which time JBR would most likely have been asleep. What we know of the relationship between JBR and BR seems like a fairly typical brother/sister relationship, in that they had the normal fights and squabbles siblings have. What would make an unwilling and tired kid get up, just because her brother wanted her to?
2. First, I've never heard 'one to two' hours as the likely digestion rate of the pineapple. Instead, I've heard 'two to four' or even 'two to five' for the pineapple to end up where it was (it wasn't in the stomach, IIRC). Second, time of death hasn't been conclusively determined, though I tend to agree that her death probably took place between midnight and 2am. Third, there's no real reason to presume her parents were both asleep when she died, especially considering that at least one of them appears to have been involved in a cover-up. Fourth, although the pineapple was found on the breakfast room table, there is no certain indication that any of it was consumed there, by JBR or anyone else.
3. This is the one that bugs me most. You, and other people, refer to the table as having an odd 'setting' (PR called it a 'setup') and conclude that since the adults in the house wouldn't have set the table this way, the children must have done so. But there is nothing to indicate that the table was ever actually 'set' in this way! Let me explain. It's Christmas, and your meals are not taken according to the usual routine. Pancakes are made late in the morning, and perhaps a bowl of pineapple ends up on the table, as a kind of accompaniment to the main dishes. Later the bowl is covered with plastic wrap or a lid (if it has one) and placed back into the fridge. This isn't the ordinary procedure; you have plastic containers, etc. But you're going out of town the next day and any food not eaten before you leave will be thrown away later, either by you or by your cleaning lady, so it doesn't seem worth the effort to clean up 'properly.' You go out to dinner at a friend's house; it's late when you return. You make a cup of tea; noticing that your son has left an empty water glass on the table, you dump the teabag into it, so you won't have to put a hot tea bag straight into the trash. Your daughter appears, ready for bed, but asking for a snack. You sigh, open the fridge, rummage around, and pull out the bowl of pineapple. You look for a spoon to dish it up with, but your daughter, trying to be helpful, has grabbed a spoon out of the drawer. It's way too big, but it doesn't matter, and you help her scoop the pineapple onto a paper plate. She asks if she can take it into the living room and watch her brother and father build a toy; you agree to the idea, tell her to throw the plate away when she's done, and head to the basement to finish wrapping gifts you're taking with you the next day.
See? No setup. No formal, "here, sit down and eat this," kind of meal. Something that probably went into and out of PR's mind until the pineapple became a crucial contradiction to the R's story that JBR was asleep when they arrived home.
4. The bowl and waterglass also contained PR's fingerprints. And BR's could have been placed on them at any time before or even after the murder; he could have fiddled with the things on the table while waiting to go to the White's house the morning of the 'kidnapping.'
There's just no evidence at all that BR and JBR were sitting at that table in the middle of the night, waiting for a third party to the 'sex game and murder' scenario.
Dru,
In this theory, Burke and JonBenet had pre-planned the late-night visit with that fifth person who showed up at the house that night. In rebuttal to your four points:
1. Children are very good at faking sleep, so I doubt that JonBenet was actually asleep when she was carried upstairs from the car around 9:30 PM or so. Everyone in the house was in bed by about 10:30 PM according to the Ramsey's version of events, so the children likely got up and went downstairs at about 11:00 or 11:30 PM. to sit at the breakfast room table, have a snack, and wait for their late-night visitor(s).
2. I did my own internet research on the digestion rate of pineapple. Eaten on an empty stomach (as was the case of JonBenet) the pineapple would have taken as little as 30 minutes and as much as 2 hours to arrive at the proximal portion (beginning) of the small intestine. Therefore, I arbitrarily selected one hour as my estimate in the JonBenet case. The estimates of others that range from 2 to 4 hours are based on the pineapple being mixed with other kinds of foods in the stomach, some which could take even longer than 4 hours to exit the stomach and enter the small intestine. The pineapple was likely consumed in the breakfast room (a separate room off from the kitchen and next to the formal dining room) because that's where the bowl of pineapple and the waterglass were sitting on the table in front of the chairs where each child normally sat.
3. IMO the strange setting at the breakfast room table (the bowl of pineapple left out all night, the big spoon, the waterglass with a tea bag in it, etc.) had children written all over it. According to the parents they had cleaned up after the Christmas late-morning pancake breakfast (the last meal eaten at the house) and there was nothing on the table when they went to bed that night. And not putting away perishables after taking them out of the refrigerator is more of a child's routine, not a parent's.
4. The security light turned off that night after being on for years; the bowl of pineapple; the waterglass with a tea bag in it; the fingerprints; a raped and murdered little girl in the basement; a weird ransom note and a ton of crime scene items missing from the house; speaks for itself. IMO there was a fifth person in the house late that night and he had been invited in by the children.
The parents are covering it up.
BlueCrab