If your parameter is that "no one can know for certain" then why are you even on this board speculating? Seems futile.Why are you placing such strict parameters on how you want replies to this post? I don't have an entire scenario, because I don't know what happened that night, and neither do you. I wasn't there and neither were you. I don't have all the answers and neither do you.
I tried to explain what I wanted because no IDIer has ever posted that, IMO. Including in your reply you again did not address how an intruder did those things, just how you think it can be explained away from the Ramseys. I think that if someone looked at the evidence and it pointed to an intruder, they would already have a scenario in their mind and anything explaining away from the Ramseys would be secondary. You wrote "we don't KNOW that for certain." Well, no, because I don't have a time machine or a hidden camera video of the night. I don't KNOW that my someone didn't take my car, drive it around all night, and return it back to my parking space in perfect condition. But I can be reasonably sure based on the facts (the car is locked, the alarm didn't go off, there was morning dew undisturbed on it, the odometer and gas were at the same levels I'd left it, etc.) For example:
We don't know for a fact that the perp is the person who removed the nightgown from the bedroom. We just don't KNOW that.
We KNOW it was removed from her room and placed next to her dead body. So if the perp didn't place it next to her dead body, who are you saying did? Do you think someone other than the perp saw her dead body then before it was "discovered" the next morning? That it was lying on the basement floor before then? When and who out it there? That's what I want, I want your theory or scenario. Instead of just saying, "We don't know for certain," I want to know what you think the other option is. This is not antagonastic, I'm honestly asking and am only frustrated because I don't see why it would be so difficult to state an intruder theory.
Logically and stastically, victims who are redressed are done so because the victim was beloved by the killer. Stranger killers don't redress. So if you don't think the parents did, again, what is your theory? Do you think the intruder knew JonBenet or not? That's what I'm looking for. Forget the stuff about why it wouldn't be the parents, why would it be an intruder? What do YOU think would make an intruder do that?The fact that JonBenet was redressed does not implicate her parents as being the perps, from a logical and legal standpoint, it just doesn't prove their guilt.
Great! Now we're getting somewhere. How long do you think the perp was in the house and when/where did he get in?You ask when the perp gathered these items & if it was when the Ramseys were at the party. Answer--probably.
So then how was the perp able to get around so easily? Do you think this intruder was intimately knowledgeable about the house?And yes, it was a complicated floor plan and large house.
Obscure was the wrong word, I meant random. They're random items some people might have, but again why do you think the intruder went searching for those items in the Ramsey house and didn't bring his own? I don't have rope or a paintbrush in my house, but I do have pens and duct tape. What if the Rams didn't have rope or he couldn't find a pen and paper? Are you suggesting he knew so much about the house that he was certain they had those things before he got there? Help me out here. If the intruder planned enough to get into the house wouldn't he plan the actual killing as well? Why not stop off at a hardware store and get all those items in five minutes?You said these are obscure items, and I beg to differ with you.
What I'm looking for is a scenario. Such as, "The intruder knew the house and the Ramseys schedule intimately because he was a friend/teacher/employee. I think he entered through the door/window/time portal. I think he/she was a disgruntled Access employee/pagent mom/child molester. He wandered around while the Ramseys were at the party and collected the pen, paper, etc. He brough his own weapon but then decided to frame Patsy." It doesn't have to be exactly like that, but just an speculative scenario. You mentioned that the intruder may have brought his own weapon. So why do you think he didn't use it and instead used things from the house? That's the stuff I'd honestly like to hear from an IDIer. Forget the Ramseys and why they didn't do it, why and how did an intruder do it.