No holes. It could have worked, because there would have been NO evidence implicating anyone in the house. Why would LE expect to see direct evidence of a phone call, other than a record the call was made?
And sure the police would have suspected something fishy. But without evidence how could they make a case?
I'm curious. What do you make of that note? What do you think it was intended to achieve?
docg,
The ransom note is crime-scene staging. Its normally a mistake to generate theories using the staging as forensic evidence.
I reckon the ransom note is nothing more than a diversion. It is someone's attempt at a dramatic ransom note, with the emphasis on drama. It was intended as a rationale for the disappearance of JonBenet, and in the main it achieved its purpose, too successfully for John, who eventually had to
discover JonBenet.
I reckon JonBenet had already been staged somewhere else in house probably her bedroom, in which the pink barbie nightgown and doll, played some role. Assuming the bedroom staging was basic, the R's must have realized they would be arrested on the spot, if they reported a dead JonBenet found assaulted in her bed.
So they needed her to be removed from the primary crime-scene, allowing them to remove any incriminating forensic evidence, e.g. blood-stained underwear etc.
So they cleaned up JonBenet, redressed her in the size-12's, white Gap-Top, longjohns, and wrapped her in a white blanket, then likely carried her down the spiral staircase to the basement?
Also at the same point in time or slightly later they gathered up the items that were found lying next to JonBenet and dumped those along with JonBenet into the wine-cellar.
So now its time to construct the ransom note which will justify dialling 911 and report a missing person. This is what it was intended to achieve.
There are two main elements to the staging:
1. Wine-Cellar.
2. Ransom Note.
Both combine to enact an Abduction Scenario. This was successful, nobody has been convicted and nobody knows much of what took place that night, precisely because the staging obsfucated the forensic evidence.
So most amateur sleuths fill in the gaps left by the staging with their own hunches and conjecture, some is correct, mostly its simply guesswork.
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