Redbetty, welcome to the forum. Yes, why this elaborate cover up?redbetty said:T-Rex:
If she were accidentally pushed down the stairs, why not just tell the police she must have fell? Why this elaborate cover up?
I don't mean to say it isn't possible, just trying to sort this out in my own mind.
redbetty said:I apologize if I am posting a message in the wrong spot. Correct me about forum etiquette, but a couple of little things have always bothered me about this case:
(and I am not meaning to suggest guilt, just that I have been preplexed...)
If my child had been just found missing from her own bed, I would have immediately checked on my young son. I wouldn't have let that boy out of my sight, for fear that he may also have been in immediate danger. If I remember correctly, and my faculties are not what they once were, didn't the Ramseys have Burke taken to a neighbour or friend's home shortly thereafter?
And the abandonment of her body before it was picked up by the coroner - a few years ago my nephew was killed in a car accident. He was 24, his mother and father wanted to be with the body as long as they could, and they time they could not be (transportation for autopsy, etc.) was agonizing for them. I would have to have been pulled from my six year old child.
redbetty said:Hi - thanks for making me feel welcome.
That is a good point. I have always believed that no parent could do this to their child. Even in a fit of rage, a terrible blow to the head, would she have died instantly from that? Wouldn't there be evidence of blood in the house where she was struck? After all, if we are talking about an accident, it would not have occurred in that out-of-the-way room in the basement, but more likely in the bathroom or bedroom, or perhaps as was suggested the stairway.
If she didn't die at once, there would have to have been a frenzy to decide how to handle the cover up, etc...while this child lay dying. It seems difficult to believe that a parent's first instinct would not be to call for medical help.
packerdog said:I have told this story here before. Years ago my mothers very good friend and her went shopping for the day and the friends husband was at home alone and took a shower. He slipped in the tub and hit his head, no blood. When the emts arrived they thought he had a heart attack, only after, during the autopsy did they find the same type of crack in the skull.
This makes sense to me. I mean the head blow was really an accident that happened during an atack of rage and then the staging occured to protect the killer.T-Rex said:My theory is someone (Mom) was chasing her, and was very angry. As they came barrelling past the open basement door, they shoved it out of the way. But JB was on the other side, and went flying down the stairs. She appeared to be dead, of a broken neck. That's what the garrote was supposed to "explain."
There is one striking detail that says that Burke was at least not alone in the deed.gaia said:Yep, that's right, Packerdog (almost typed Packergod, heehee!)! I guess we've spent many hours over the years debating this one point and I've always believed JonBenet's head injury was in her bathroom, possibly the kitchen, or maybe she was hit while in the basement with the flashlight or something akin to that. She didn't bleed...no blood anywhere except that minute amount in her panties.
Sometimes, when I want to entertain an alterior scenario, I think Burke was playing Dr. with her in the basement and hit her with the flashlight when she screamed because he hurt her. There are numerous problems with this scenario...not the least of which was the supposed intricacy of the garrote!
I still do subscribe to the idea this child wasn't meant to die. It was "an accident" in that sense. No self-respecting pedophile (is that an oxymoron?) would KILL HER! He's take her with him as his property. That's what I've always thought.:bang: