Ozoner
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I agree with Seahorse, but only to a certain extent.I believe the perpetrator(s) of this crime was some narcissistic male, a "friend" of the Ramseys that was seriously jealous of their success.
I believe that the murderer was a narcissistic male on the fringes of the Ramseys' lives who harborded a hidden resentment against John Ramsey.
I see no evidence whatsoever that the crime was sexually morivated. I believe that everything that was done to JonBenet was meant to cause John agony. What better way for the perp to stick a knife in the ribs of a rich guy he despises than by killing the guy's young daughter? What better way to twist that knife than by using a phony ransom note to give the guy false hope, when in reality the girl's body will be found in the guy's own house, savagely bound? I submit that the only reason JonBenet's body was hidden in the first place was to increase the psychological torture of her father.
To paint a portrait of this killer, I will refer to the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Cask of Amontillado." In that story, the narrator, Montresor, plots revenge on a man named Fortunato. But the question is, revenge for what? Montresor's motto is, "Nemo me impune lacessit," which translates as "No one cuts me with impunity." Montresor believes that Fortunato has insulted him, but when the two men interact, it is clear that Fortunato does not consider Montresor an enemy; in fact, he appears to treat him as a friend. He may be a little pompous or a little patronizing, but it becomes clear that whatever slight earned Fortunato a death sentence exists primarily in Montresor's mind. At any rate (for the seven people in America who don't know the story), Montresor ends up chaining Fortunato to a wall in the cellar and, while he is still alive, walling him up with bricks and mortar.
I believe JonBenet's killer was someone much like Montresor--someone who felt slighted or ignored by John Ramsey. It could have been an employee he fired, or it could have been someone who said hello to John on the street and didn't get a reply. The killer may have said to himself, "John Ramsey thinks he's better than I am, does he? I'll teach him that a rich, pompous @$$ can still be made to suffer."
I believe the killing was probably the perp's first major crime but that he had been having revenge fantasies for years. I believe that he found revenge to be unsatisfying and probably never did anything similar again, so I doubt his DNA will ever be entered into any database. I would be looking for a terminally single white male who was about 30 to 35 at the time of the crime--perhaps someone who did well in school but failed to live up to his potential and became frustrated.