The scene showed signs of two perps in my opinion.
One organised, one disorganised.
We know the communication between J and P was fairly nonexistent at the best of times, and I would say the staging was just another example of that.
It took them hours to do.
One went this way, the other went that way.
I have no doubt J told P to write a ransom note, just as I have no doubt he nearly died when he saw how long it was and the inclusion of the $118,000.
By then, they had probably already called the police and it was too late for him to change what she'd done...he just had to bluff it out and hope for the best.
SapphireSteel,
For me the ransom note is like the wine-cellar, its part of the staging. I doubt its contents will tell us much about what happened, but it might reveal what the R's hoped might happen?
So did the R's have a plan? Was there a strategy with accompanying tactics, or was it all rushed on a wing and a prayer?
You have suggested two people one of which is disorganized and the other organized. Now if the R's had a plan which one of these two types thought it up, outlined it, refined it, then mandated its execution?
The $118,000 is in the ransom note for a particular reason, everyone has thought why not a million the R's were millionares after all?
The $118,000 relates to Access Graphics, so were the R's intending to link someone there to JonBenet's kidnapping.
Then there is the American Girl Doll ordered by
JonBenet and to be delivered to her as the recipient.
Also we have a Barbie Doll lying next to JonBenet down in the wine-cellar, along with a bloodstained Barbie-Nightgown.
So dolls and John's bonus patently play some part in the staging, just what could it be, or was the American Girl Doll simply fake, something sent by an outsider?
If the R's required an American Girls Doll replacement then having it delivered to JonBenet at Access Graphics, days after her death, is surely not the way to do it?
Not unless it can be demonstrated that American Girls Doll was back ordered, with the order details only reaching the computers, once it made its way throught the system. This information is missing from the original report, i.e. mail or phone order, and on which date?
Could be someone was inserting themselves into the case, only Tricia can really resolve this one.
Anyway on the subject of the $118,000. I reckon John told Patsy to add that sum in, since as a diversionary tactic, they had some plan to link Access Graphics with JonBenet's abduction.
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