I still stand by my premise that the DAY on the panties was the most important thing. Otherwise, any of her old panties would have sufficed. But there was only one other Wednesday pair-in the set that was wrapped as a gift for Jenny.
It is an aspect of the staging that can only be attributed to the parents, not to BR. I doubt BR would bother changing her panties at all. IF he had been the one to cause the skull fracture, that is the ONLY thing I can see him having done. BR at age 9 - just LOOK at him in the photos- was a slightly- built kinda dorky looking kid. I can't see him strangling his sister with that garrote; breaking the paintbrush and inserting it in her vagina; carrying her down unconscious down the spiral stairs to the basement.
IF he had struck her fatally with the flashlight, bat, etc. that's one thing. But from that point on, his parents took over with the staging. But there is still something that doesn't sit right. If they needed to cover up this accident with BR, why stage a strangulation? Why not just say that the intruder caused the skull fracture and leave it at that? Well-there are two other suspicious aspects of this crime that have to be staged- a LARGE abrasion on her neck indicating a possible strangulation with fabric (like her shirt collar)-the garrote tried to hide that aspect. AND the significant amount of bleeding from her vagina from forceful penetration. That was "taken care of" by wiping her down and changing her panties.
I simply cannot see him doing all of this ALONE. It was either BR and JAR, with both PR and JR having reason to coverup for their sons, or BR was not involved. He knows something, but was not himself involved.
DeeDee249,
An outline BDI is that Burke for whatever reason whacked JonBenet, the rest is staging by the parents, only they would cover for Burke.
Its entirely possible that the whole wine-cellar crime-scene is staged e.g. that JonBenet's head injury was applied
after she was
manually asphyxiated, at some point she was sexually assaulted, and wiped down, then the garrote was applied. That is for some unknown reason, someone really did intentionally kill JonBenet, then it was faked as an intruder murder?
The point about the above is that the staging quite effectively masks or hides the original circumstances surrounding JonBenet's death, which is what makes external assumptions injected into the PDI, such as the Wednesday pair contentious. They may simply be on JonBenet because they are panties and
not because they have the Wednesday feature or are size-12's?
I still stand by my premise that the DAY on the panties was the most important thing. Otherwise, any of her old panties would have sufficed. But there was only one other Wednesday pair-in the set that was wrapped as a gift for Jenny.
Its safe to assume that the size-12's were not in JonBenet's panty drawer or located down in the basement, why, because we have no forensic evidence to confirm either of these assumptions.
Bear in mind that what ever Patsy says about the underwear question may be lies, evasions, to prevent further lines of questioning, remember this is a mother who cannot remember if JonBenet washed or showered, or changed her panties prior to visiting the Whites, despite saying she was the person who
always supervised JonBenet showering, bathing, washing etc. Returning from the White's and on undressing JonBenet, again Patsy says she never noticed what underwear JonBenet was wearing. So when Patsy tells you the size-12's were a gift for Jenny, and that they were to be/were being gift-wrapped in the basement, you must remain skeptical. Patsy may have been gift wrapping in her bedroom, keeping the gifts in her dresser drawer, but removed them all to the basement, as part of an evidence purge?
Your assumption that the day-of-the-week on the panties was the most important feature is based on what?
Stretching rationale, and its here that issues about panic and confusion go out the window, whomever selected the size-12's then thought mmm yesterday was Wednesday, so out the seven choices I'll pick the Wednesday pair? We have no knowledge what day-of-the-week pair JonBenet had been wearing prior to her death.
Otherwise, any of her old panties would have sufficed.
Of course, and you are trying to sell me the premise that Patsy ignored her size-6's in preference to a pair of size-12's, simply on the basis of the day-of-the-week, but totally ignore what everyone now recognizes as a big big mistake, that anyone seeing JonBenet wearing those size-12's , would remember not the day-of-the-week, the day-of-the-week is incidental, expected decoration on a pair of panties, its not out of place. But the size 12, is! Particularly when Patsy tells us she bought them for a girl nearly twice JonBenet's age and height.
Patsy has to know questions will eventually flow from JonBenet wearing size-12 underwear, yet she has no answers. She has to know prior to redressing JonBenet that those size-12's will suggest that JonBenet was dressed in those
after arriving back from the White's, unless JonBenet was wearing a pair of size-12's to the Whites, and it is this that there was an argument over. It is the size of the size-12's that is the most visually noticable feature, not the day-of-the-week, which whilst relevant, is mundane on a pair of panties. So by the PDI's own logic its this feature that was being simulated?
The size-12's are not a mistake that Patsy would make, given she did, why has she no explanation for their use. I reckon John or Burke redressed JonBenet in those size-12's. LHP the housekeeper said she saw the unopened size-12's in JonBenet's bedroom dresser drawer, or they were kept in Patsy and John's bedroom, where John after cleaning up JonBenet simply redresses her in the size-12's?
The size-12's are a staging element gone wrong, we know that, the feature that tells us this is the panty-size. OK the size-12's were possibly selected as they were new, clean, and forensically free of evidence, but given Patsy's account of placing the longjohns onto JonBenet. We can infer that this size-12 redressing occurred
after her being dressed in longjohns, which throws the focus directly onto Patsy, is this a mistake that she would make? Knowing that this may occur why did she not simply select any pair of size-6's?