DeeDee, you said that JBs prints were not on the bowl. If she gotten the snack herself, wouldnt her prints be on the bowl?
What else is known about the pineapple? Was it already in the bowl in the fridge, or was it opened the same time it was going to be eaten?
I am just trying to think about when it was possibly consumed. If JB and/or Burke got up for whatever reason, and she wanted the pineapple, would she (or they) sit in the dark and eat it? No one (the neighbors), to my knowledge, said anything about lights being on late, but I believe something was said about weird lighting (like a flashlight) was seen.
My thoughts are going every which way and I am having a hard time writing them down in a coherent way.
JB's prints were NOT on the bowl. ONLY Patsy and BR's prints were on the bowl, and BR's prints were on the glass.
There was additional pineapple in the fridge that matched that in the bowl, as well as both matched the pineapple (even the rind) of the pineapple in JB's digestive tract. This was FRESH pineapple, not canned. So it wasn't "opened".
A neighbor saw what they described as "strange moving lights" (presumed to be the someone walking or moving about with a flashlight) around midnight, the general time JB was thought to have died. The family was back home by 10 pm, and it is assumed the pineapple was not eaten in the dark, but rather in the dining area off the kitchen, where the bowl and spoon were found, sometime between 10 pm and her death, about 2 hours later. There would be nothing particularly noteworthy about seeing lights on OR off in the R house, and nothing was noted with the exception of the moving lights. I am sure JB ate the pineapple, given to her by her mother or possibly brother, as their prints alone are on the bowl.
As far as the lights, it really wasn't that late. 10 pm- midnight may be late to some, but in many households people would still be up and about at that hour, especially a holiday like Christmas with so much tidying up to do.