I'm really enjoying hearing the different ideas and questions you all have. I'm firm RDI and always have been.
From there, I find myself drifting into DocG's camp, at least somewhat. In my opinion, he makes a solid argument about JR writing the note over PR. I have always believed PR wrote that note until I read DocG's theory for the first time in the past week or three.
I, like many, allowed those handwriting experts to lead me down the wrong path called "JR couldn't have written the note." So now I feel like I have at least some closure in regard to the ransom note thanks to DocG. To me, that note is the biggest piece of evidence in this case.
However, one of the things that I often forget is that I've never had access to ALL of the evidence and I'm sure I care about this case so much that I often trick myself into thinking that I have.
I'm a private detective in the Denver metro area and finally visited the Ramsey house a couple weeks ago. It was surreal and I stood there and listened and looked for the longest time. The trees or the wind didn't give me any answers, so that sucked.
Also, I realized I haven't thought much about this case for quite a few years and briefly wondered why. However, I listen to a lot of talk radio to pass time while on surveillance, including Howard Stern, and he recently had on a guest that worked on the Ramsey case under Steve Thomas. The guest wasn't there to discuss the Ramsey case, but it came up and I can't remember the guest's name!
Anyway, he reassured Stern that no one, including the Ramsey family, have been "truly" cleared, regardless of Mary Lacy's letter saying so. It's an unsolved homicide after all. In addition, despite my legal background, I realize that I somehow allowed myself to be brainwashed by that ridiculous move on Lacy's part, i.e. her announcement probably means no RDI!
Finally, despite there being no physical evidence that I know about to put BR in the wine cellar, in contact with the body, and so on, I still can't help but think that such BR physical evidence exists, we just don't know about it for obvious reasons, primarily due to BR's status as a minor in 1996.
Despite DocG's and other's opinions to the contrary, I do believe BR could have and probably did swing that flashlight hard enough to cause her skull fracture (yes, I know it was only one hit).
I also still believe BR was molesting JBR, maybe even JR too (not simultaneously and probably just BR in my opinion).
Plus, I keep thinking that BR and JBR were up late playing in the basement with new Christmas toys when they snuck into the wine cellar with the flashlight to sneak-peak at other gifts.
I understand that there was a light in that wine cellar room, but maybe BR didn't want to use it because he might be caught in there easier, therefore the need for the flashlight.
I suspect things turned violent in that room, i.e. BR maybe smashed her on the head because she threatened to tell on him about something as innocent as looking at his soon-to-come birthday presents stashed in there. Pure speculation, I know, and, if BR was the striker, regardless of the circumstance, I don't believe BR meant to kill her with that head strike.
Is there general consensus regarding which room the head fracture occurred? Again, maybe there's evidence about it that's never been released to the public.
In any event, my thoughts about what transpired next are much foggier, i.e
. Did BR prod or trial-and-error choke her with his hands or arms or just some rope out of fear or anger or simply playing around with an unconscious body (no garotte)? Did JR intervene too late and decide to add the garotte staging and more to protect BR with a kidnapping gone wrong scenario. So many questions in my mind, just thinking.
Thanks for listening to me vent and share my opinions too.
