KoldKase
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Well...of course it's just my opinion...but knowing a victim of child abuse and incest and reading lots on the subject, as well (I can't recommend Marilyn Van Derbur's book Miss America By Day enough to help understand the dynamics involved in families of incest), I find the autopsy results support the theory that someone was sexually abusing the child for some period of time before that night and that was what most likely led to the strain and tension which resulted in the devastating head blow.
Once that burst of anger set into motion the inevitable death of the child, their next problem was what was going to happen once the sexual abuse was uncovered? They certainly knew it would be discovered: at a hospital, if they took her to the ER, or at autopsy, if she didn't survive.
We've discussed quite a bit what might have happened when her skull cracked almost in half. One thing I feel did happen is that whoever struck the blow heard that crack, loud and clear. It must have been terrifying.
Whether other family members were present and heard it, as well, we don't know.
The next thing that is debated, without any definitive answer that I've seen, is how that head injury would have physically manifested itself in the body of JonBenet. Head injuries involving the brain are unpredictable and individual because the brain is still quite a mystery as far as function goes.
Some possibilities are seizures, thrashing about, or even simply a complete loss of consciousness quickly resulting in dilated pupils and lack of any response to any stimuli.
Most of you here are familiar with all of this and more, and I'm sure you have some links to more in depth discussion by those more qualified than I to explain this.
Whatever happened after that head blow, the Ramseys then had major problems that just went into the stratosphere of tragedy, IMO.
However the Ramseys reached this point--and we all know there are many viable theories about that--the strangulation by ligature, staging, and cover-up that followed were a result of an initial desire to hide that sexual abuse of a six year old.
For anyone who doesn't understand how taboo incest is in this country, rest assured of one thing: Patsy Ramsey, from W. Virginia--where incest was historically such a problem that a t-shirt marketed by Abercrombe & Fitch that says "It's all relative in West Virginia" brought the governor of the state out against it: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/23/us/t-shirt-slight-has-west-virginia-in-arms.html. [Edited to change verb tense--because upon googling, I found such t-shirts are still sold and easily found now.]
It is my theory that this was the deep secret that ruined that family and caused the death of JonBenet. In 2013, when we talk about everything under the Sun, and on TV, it may not be seen as the scandal of epic proportions it used to be. But Patsy, born in 1956, was from a time when nobody talked about it and many weren't even aware of it. It was the darkest of secrets and what families did to keep it often devastated the victim--who often was blamed, not the perp. Sad, but true.
There is convincing physical and circumstantial evidence of prior sexual abuse, which the Ramseys emphatically denied. Also suspicious, once told by Det. Haney in 1998 that it was absolutely, scientifically proven, they proceeded to completely ignore this compelling evidence. Consider this: IF they truly wanted to find the killer of their child, they'd have immediately began looking for that abuser among them who was not only with JonBenet before that night, but had the ability to repeatedly sexually molest her without their knowledge. That was in fact the biggest clue to narrow the field of suspects they had, if they were innocent as they claimed.
All they did was deny and ignore that evidence.
So that's what I think about their motive. But I'm open to other reasonable theories, as we will probably never be able to fully understand the demented dynamics at work that night.
JMO
Once that burst of anger set into motion the inevitable death of the child, their next problem was what was going to happen once the sexual abuse was uncovered? They certainly knew it would be discovered: at a hospital, if they took her to the ER, or at autopsy, if she didn't survive.
We've discussed quite a bit what might have happened when her skull cracked almost in half. One thing I feel did happen is that whoever struck the blow heard that crack, loud and clear. It must have been terrifying.
Whether other family members were present and heard it, as well, we don't know.
The next thing that is debated, without any definitive answer that I've seen, is how that head injury would have physically manifested itself in the body of JonBenet. Head injuries involving the brain are unpredictable and individual because the brain is still quite a mystery as far as function goes.
Some possibilities are seizures, thrashing about, or even simply a complete loss of consciousness quickly resulting in dilated pupils and lack of any response to any stimuli.
Most of you here are familiar with all of this and more, and I'm sure you have some links to more in depth discussion by those more qualified than I to explain this.
Whatever happened after that head blow, the Ramseys then had major problems that just went into the stratosphere of tragedy, IMO.
However the Ramseys reached this point--and we all know there are many viable theories about that--the strangulation by ligature, staging, and cover-up that followed were a result of an initial desire to hide that sexual abuse of a six year old.
For anyone who doesn't understand how taboo incest is in this country, rest assured of one thing: Patsy Ramsey, from W. Virginia--where incest was historically such a problem that a t-shirt marketed by Abercrombe & Fitch that says "It's all relative in West Virginia" brought the governor of the state out against it: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/23/us/t-shirt-slight-has-west-virginia-in-arms.html. [Edited to change verb tense--because upon googling, I found such t-shirts are still sold and easily found now.]
It is my theory that this was the deep secret that ruined that family and caused the death of JonBenet. In 2013, when we talk about everything under the Sun, and on TV, it may not be seen as the scandal of epic proportions it used to be. But Patsy, born in 1956, was from a time when nobody talked about it and many weren't even aware of it. It was the darkest of secrets and what families did to keep it often devastated the victim--who often was blamed, not the perp. Sad, but true.
There is convincing physical and circumstantial evidence of prior sexual abuse, which the Ramseys emphatically denied. Also suspicious, once told by Det. Haney in 1998 that it was absolutely, scientifically proven, they proceeded to completely ignore this compelling evidence. Consider this: IF they truly wanted to find the killer of their child, they'd have immediately began looking for that abuser among them who was not only with JonBenet before that night, but had the ability to repeatedly sexually molest her without their knowledge. That was in fact the biggest clue to narrow the field of suspects they had, if they were innocent as they claimed.
All they did was deny and ignore that evidence.
So that's what I think about their motive. But I'm open to other reasonable theories, as we will probably never be able to fully understand the demented dynamics at work that night.
JMO
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