Exactly!!
I'm shocked that two educated people settled on that story. It makes no sense. Before Patsy even knew what the novella was about, she contorted herself on the spiral stair case, over the papers - why? So she didn't slip on the papers and fall. If she didn't want to slip and bust her azz, why didn't she PICK THEM UP!!?? It's a reactionary thing; pick up papers, read.
Also, I think she phoned over the Whites and the Fernies so they could be "witnesses" to the Ramsey grief. I don't think she was frantically calling; I think it was a calculated move. Just my opinions.
In my opinion, the Ramseys called over the many friends to give them a cushion, between them and the BPD detectives, a huge distraction for LE to control on the scene once the body was found--and of course, who in the world could have predicted that the BPD wouldn't find the body immediately?
I believe the plan was to quickly get away--remember John calling his pilot as soon as he "found" the body later? Initially, having the support team there to lead them away as Patsy played faint and John aggrieved was the point, IMO.
As you can see, I believe the Ramseys were up all night making their plans. I also believe they had help, via some phone calls LE never saw the records for, thanks again to Alex Hunter, the Ramseys' best friend in this case.
It's a complex puzzle that's taken me 14 years to put together, and some pieces are still missing and probably always will be. It's been said before that this isn't a tough case; the evidence is clear. How true that is. But with the very DAs who should be searching for justice for JonBenet obstructing the investigation from Day One into 12 years later, there wasn't any chance this case was ever going to be anything but FUBAR from the start.
So it has been up to us, a world of strangers, to witness for this child. Her story is simple: she's the poster child for sexual and physical abuse and murder. This good, Christian family, a portrait of the American Dream, harboring such terrible secrets which our justice system itself helped them bury is the lesson we have to take away from JonBenet's fate.
How many other children suffer this, and worse, without hope of help or justice, because they aren't believed, cannot defend themselves, and have no power or protection even in America at the turn of the 21st century?
That's JonBenet's message and purpose, to witness for those children. She has been denied her story by her abusers and by the system that supports them for 14 years. A curse on all of them: may their corruption return to burn them tenfold.
As for us, we have to hold fast to the truth, or she is just another victim with no voice.
I can see the comparison between JonBenet and Caylee: yet another "respectable" family protecting the abuser, the killer; even in the face of knowing the monster they harbor, they abandon the child who was murdered in their very bosom. They are weak and corrupt, and they are fighting to maintain their self-image because to acknowledge the truth would destroy everything they have ever believed about themselves.
Yes, that's hard, no doubt. But I would cut my own throat before I'd forsake my grandchild to protect her murderer, even if that killer was the person I loved most in the world. Nothing but disaster can come from lies and deceit; too bad the Ramseys and the Anthonys haven't learned that lesson.