Bayareamom
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Here is an excerpt from "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town." I'm going to type it in (and hopefully ya'll will read it) and then I'll comment, below:
Ppg. 497-99: (This is the excerpt in the book referencing the FBI meeting with various members of the Boulder Police Department, the Boulder DA's office and others, at some time the following year, after the murder.)
"...The experts thought that the ransom note was written by someone intelligent but not criminally sophisticated. Someone who had planned a kidnapping in advance would have tried to impress the parents with how great a game he or she posed. Words like we and us, my group, we're large, and we're big, were absent. In the note, the kidnappers called themselves a "small foreign faction." That raised the question, foreign to whom? From whose point of view were they writing? Real foreigners would not refer to themselves as foreign. Here the author of the note had made a mistake, showing some weakness. There were also some inconsistencies: the note began formally, addressing "Mr. Ramsey," but toward the end addressed "John."
"The FBI experts pointed out that every item involved in the crime seemed to have come from inside the house, including the pad, the pen, and the broken paintbrush. They believed the duct tape and the rope for the ligature had most likely been purchased by Patsy Ramsey sometime in December. Nothing seemed to have come from outside the house. There was no evidence that anyone had turned on the lights during the crime, trying to find their way around an unfamiliar house. One agent told the assembled group; Is this an offender who came to the scene totally unprepared to do anything? If you were to believe that a stranger killed JonBenet, it would have to be someone very comfortable at the scene-which is very atypical. Kidnappers are usually in and out in a heartbeat. Just look at the Polly Klaas case. They don't kill and then hang around to write a two-and-a-half page bogus note. And why choose, of all nights, Christmas, when someone else, maybe a guest staying with the family, could wander in? If the perpetrator had enough time to write the note at the Ramseys' home, he had enough time to take the victim alive or to take the dead body somewhere else. Then there was the scream. If it was loud enough for a neighbor to hear, a stranger wouldn't have hung around. After all, the parents might hear it and respond to their child's cry for help. Maybe the family dog would wake the sleeping parents? After all, who knew besides those living inside the house that that night the dog would be staying with the Barnhills?"
"To the FBI profilers, the time spent staging the crime scene and hiding the body pointed to a killer who had asked, "How do I explain this?" and had answered the question: "A stranger did it." The staging suggested a killer desperate to divert attention."
"Moreover, there was STAGING WITHIN STAGING. The loop of cord around one wrist was not a real indicatoin that JonBenet had been restrained. The ligature that suffocated JonBenet-though she would eventually hae died from the head injury-was in their opinion an unusual cover-up attempt, if that was what it was. The way the cord had been made into a noose-with the stick tied 17 inches from the knot-suggested staging rather than a bona fide attempt to strangle JonBenet. It suggested that the killer was a manipulative person, with the courage to believe that he or she could control the subsequent investigation. In short, everything about the crime indicated an attempt at self-preservation on the part of the killer."
"On the other hand, the killer cared about the victim and wanted her found. He or she didn't want JonBenet outside in the dead of winter in the middle of the night. The child had been wrapped in a white blanket, her Barbie nightgown found lying next to her. Such caring and solicitude were not usually associated with a malevolent criminal."
"Neither the behavioral nor the technical experts had ever seen a parental killing of a child that involved both a fatal injury and garroting, but that was a statistical detail, not evidence". And after reviewing what was known aboaut the points of entry to the house, the open window, the shoe imprint, the palm print on the wine cellar door and the partial palm print on the ramsom note-neither of which could be dated with certainty-the FBI told the visitors from Boulder that there was no hard evidence to indicate that an intruder had entered the house that night."
"This was their best assessment of the crime scene, the FBI said. Where the Ramseys might or might not fit into it was up to the Boulder PD to determine. The circumstances seemed to rule out the involvement of a stranger. Nevertheless, it was a possibility, however remote."
I (Bayareamom) personally feel this next portion of this excerpt is the most important:
"The police then mentioned the Ramseys' behavior immediately after the body was found: the fact that John Ramsey was ready to fly to Atlanta with his wife and son and leave his daughter's body--and the investigation into her murder--behind; the refusal to cooperate with the police; and the hiring of criminal attorneys."
"In reply, the FBI experts pointed out that no two people respond to trauma and grief the same way, and that the police should not overanalyze what they had observed. Most of the time, the parents of a victim are all over the police. "Why the hell haven't you caught my child's killer?" "What's going on? I want to know everything." In this case, the police had to acknowledge that it was their own Commander's actions that had led to the long postponement of the parents' interviews."
"The police also mentioned that the Ramseys had separate attorneys. Did this imply separate liabilities? They wondered aloud if one parent had knowledge of the crime before the fact, and the other had knowledge after the fact. The FBI had no answers to these speculations."
Ppg. 497-99: (This is the excerpt in the book referencing the FBI meeting with various members of the Boulder Police Department, the Boulder DA's office and others, at some time the following year, after the murder.)
"...The experts thought that the ransom note was written by someone intelligent but not criminally sophisticated. Someone who had planned a kidnapping in advance would have tried to impress the parents with how great a game he or she posed. Words like we and us, my group, we're large, and we're big, were absent. In the note, the kidnappers called themselves a "small foreign faction." That raised the question, foreign to whom? From whose point of view were they writing? Real foreigners would not refer to themselves as foreign. Here the author of the note had made a mistake, showing some weakness. There were also some inconsistencies: the note began formally, addressing "Mr. Ramsey," but toward the end addressed "John."
"The FBI experts pointed out that every item involved in the crime seemed to have come from inside the house, including the pad, the pen, and the broken paintbrush. They believed the duct tape and the rope for the ligature had most likely been purchased by Patsy Ramsey sometime in December. Nothing seemed to have come from outside the house. There was no evidence that anyone had turned on the lights during the crime, trying to find their way around an unfamiliar house. One agent told the assembled group; Is this an offender who came to the scene totally unprepared to do anything? If you were to believe that a stranger killed JonBenet, it would have to be someone very comfortable at the scene-which is very atypical. Kidnappers are usually in and out in a heartbeat. Just look at the Polly Klaas case. They don't kill and then hang around to write a two-and-a-half page bogus note. And why choose, of all nights, Christmas, when someone else, maybe a guest staying with the family, could wander in? If the perpetrator had enough time to write the note at the Ramseys' home, he had enough time to take the victim alive or to take the dead body somewhere else. Then there was the scream. If it was loud enough for a neighbor to hear, a stranger wouldn't have hung around. After all, the parents might hear it and respond to their child's cry for help. Maybe the family dog would wake the sleeping parents? After all, who knew besides those living inside the house that that night the dog would be staying with the Barnhills?"
"To the FBI profilers, the time spent staging the crime scene and hiding the body pointed to a killer who had asked, "How do I explain this?" and had answered the question: "A stranger did it." The staging suggested a killer desperate to divert attention."
"Moreover, there was STAGING WITHIN STAGING. The loop of cord around one wrist was not a real indicatoin that JonBenet had been restrained. The ligature that suffocated JonBenet-though she would eventually hae died from the head injury-was in their opinion an unusual cover-up attempt, if that was what it was. The way the cord had been made into a noose-with the stick tied 17 inches from the knot-suggested staging rather than a bona fide attempt to strangle JonBenet. It suggested that the killer was a manipulative person, with the courage to believe that he or she could control the subsequent investigation. In short, everything about the crime indicated an attempt at self-preservation on the part of the killer."
"On the other hand, the killer cared about the victim and wanted her found. He or she didn't want JonBenet outside in the dead of winter in the middle of the night. The child had been wrapped in a white blanket, her Barbie nightgown found lying next to her. Such caring and solicitude were not usually associated with a malevolent criminal."
"Neither the behavioral nor the technical experts had ever seen a parental killing of a child that involved both a fatal injury and garroting, but that was a statistical detail, not evidence". And after reviewing what was known aboaut the points of entry to the house, the open window, the shoe imprint, the palm print on the wine cellar door and the partial palm print on the ramsom note-neither of which could be dated with certainty-the FBI told the visitors from Boulder that there was no hard evidence to indicate that an intruder had entered the house that night."
"This was their best assessment of the crime scene, the FBI said. Where the Ramseys might or might not fit into it was up to the Boulder PD to determine. The circumstances seemed to rule out the involvement of a stranger. Nevertheless, it was a possibility, however remote."
I (Bayareamom) personally feel this next portion of this excerpt is the most important:
"The police then mentioned the Ramseys' behavior immediately after the body was found: the fact that John Ramsey was ready to fly to Atlanta with his wife and son and leave his daughter's body--and the investigation into her murder--behind; the refusal to cooperate with the police; and the hiring of criminal attorneys."
"In reply, the FBI experts pointed out that no two people respond to trauma and grief the same way, and that the police should not overanalyze what they had observed. Most of the time, the parents of a victim are all over the police. "Why the hell haven't you caught my child's killer?" "What's going on? I want to know everything." In this case, the police had to acknowledge that it was their own Commander's actions that had led to the long postponement of the parents' interviews."
"The police also mentioned that the Ramseys had separate attorneys. Did this imply separate liabilities? They wondered aloud if one parent had knowledge of the crime before the fact, and the other had knowledge after the fact. The FBI had no answers to these speculations."
