Originally Posted by K. Taylor
To me, it's the opposite. That us RDIers look at the evidence and see where it points, whereas IDIers only look at the evidence as to how it can be explained away to point to anyone other than the Ramseys first, then an intruder second. "Yes, but..."
That's exactly what I've seen with IDI'ers... take each single piece of evidence and try to explain it as something else it could be even when that something else isn't probable (and has even been debunked). I also see a serious lack of knowledge about what the evidence IS and IS NOT from IDI'ers... it always seems to be the IDI'ers that still don't know about the stun gun being debunked, the body hair being identified, the shoeprints, the palm prints, etc. Much of this stuff was debunked YEARS ago.
There is no single one thing that can be pointed to as evidence of Ramsey guilt... it's the TOTALITY of the evidence. For example:
Say we aren't talking about a murdered child but whether or not JBR got into the cookie jar and ate some. Here's the scenerio:
The Ramsey's put JBR to bed in a pink nightgown. They go tuck in Burke, and then go off to bed themselves. In the morning, Patsy wakes up and finds the cookie jar on the table with the lid off with cookie crumbs on the table and wonders who got into the cookie jar. She calls the Cookie Police. Here's what the Cookie Police find:
1. The cookie jar is kept on a counter that JBR can reach.
2. The cookie jar is found on the kitchen table and there are cookie crumbs on the table.
3. The cookie jar has fibers on it came from the pink nightgown JBR wore to bed.
4. JBR's fingerprints are on the cookie jar and on the lid.
5. JBR is discovered in her bed surrounded by cookie crumbs.
6. JBR has cookie crumbs around her mouth.
7. JBR has cookie crumbs on her fingers.
The TOTALITY of the evidence clearly points to JBR having gotten out of bed in the middle of the night, and while everyone else slept helped herself to cookies.
BUT, you can take every item of evidence SEPARATELY and explain it away even if that explanation isn't probable and/or has been previously debunked...
1. The cookie jar is kept on a counter that JBR can reach.
Well... ANYBODY in the house could have gotten that cookie jar off the counter - just because JBR could reach it doesn't mean it was her that took it off the counter.
2. The cookie jar is found on the kitchen table and there are cookie crumbs on the table.
Well... ANYBODY in the house could have gotten that cookie jar off the counter and put it on the table - just because JBR could reach it doesn't mean it was her that took it off the counter and put it on the table. ANYBODY in the house could have taken cookies out of the jar and gotten crumbs on the table.
3. The cookie jar has fibers on it came from the pink nightgown JBR wore to bed.
Well... those fibers could have gotten there at any other time when she wore that nightgown (even though Fleet White later testified that he saw the housekeeper wash that cookie jar that very afternoon).
4. JBR's fingerprints are on the cookie jar AND on the lid.
Well... the fingerprints could have been left there at some other time before the cookie jar was washed.
5. JBR is discovered in her bed surrounded by cookie crumbs.
Well... we don't know the last time the sheets were changed, so those cookie crumbs could have been from some other time that she ate cookies. She could have brushed her nightgown against the counter and picked up cookie crumbs and transferred them to her bed.
6. JBR has cookie crumbs around her mouth.
Well... Burke could have been playing a joke, snuck into her room and sprinkled cookie crumbs around her mouth (nevermind that there's no evidence that Burke got out of bed, went to kitchen, got cookies out of the jar, etc.)
7. JBR has cookie crumbs on her fingers.
Well... those cookie crumbs that she may have brushed her nightgown against and gotten in her bed could also have been transferred to her fingers.
See what I mean? Any intelligent Cookie Policeman will look at the TOTALITY of the evidence and decide that JBR got out of bed, went to the kitchen and helped herself to cookies, and any intelligent unbiased person would agree. But anyone trying to keep JBR from getting into trouble for doing that might be tempted to try to explain away each SEPARATE piece of evidence to try to make it add up to JBR being innocent of any nocternal cookie marauding even though when some of those explanations are silly and/or really stretching it, and/or already debunked... and when added together it just doesn't add up.