BlueCrab
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The pineapple is one of the most important clues in the Ramsey murder -- it's powerful evidence suggesting there was no intruder.
According to John Meyer, the pathologist on the case, the pineapple was eaten about 2 hours before JonBenet died. And the best estimate of time of death is around 1:00 A.M. on the 26th since JonBenet was in full rigor when found at 1:05 P.M. -- 12 hours later. This means JonBenet likely ate the pineapple around 11:00 P.M. on the 25th -- 2 hours before she died.
JonBenet couldn't have eaten the pineapple at the White's house or before going to the White's house. She had eaten a cracked crab dinner at the White's and this meal was in her large intestine and identified in the autopsy as soft green fecal matter. The pineapple was still in the "proximal" portion of JonBenet's small intestine. IOW, it had just left the duodenum, which is a short section that connects the small intestine to the stomach.
The small intestine is tubular, about 15-20 feet long with numerous folds, and connects to the large intestine, which is about another 5-10-feet long but larger in diameter. It would have been impossible for the cracked crab meal, eaten 4 or 5 hours earlier and now in the large intestine and almost fully digested, to have passed by the pineapple, still in the small intestine and almost totally undigested. The pineapple still had a slow 25-foot-long journey facing it before it could get to where the cracked crab meal was.
Thus, JonBenet had to have eaten the pineapple approximately one hour after the parents had gone to bed that night. And JonBenet would not have snacked on pineapple in the middle of the night with an intruder. Even John Ramsey says that would have been impossible -- JonBenet would have screamed bloody murder.
And the evidence further suggests she ate the pineapple at the breakfast room table with Burke because Burke's fingerprints were on the bowl of pineapple sitting on the table, a glass with a spent tea bag in it was also on the tablel (JonBenet doesn't drink tea but Burke does), and the glass was in front of Burke's normal place at the table.
The pineapple is a crucial piece of evidence that tends to eliminate the intruder theory and points to Burke as the perpetrator.
JMO
According to John Meyer, the pathologist on the case, the pineapple was eaten about 2 hours before JonBenet died. And the best estimate of time of death is around 1:00 A.M. on the 26th since JonBenet was in full rigor when found at 1:05 P.M. -- 12 hours later. This means JonBenet likely ate the pineapple around 11:00 P.M. on the 25th -- 2 hours before she died.
JonBenet couldn't have eaten the pineapple at the White's house or before going to the White's house. She had eaten a cracked crab dinner at the White's and this meal was in her large intestine and identified in the autopsy as soft green fecal matter. The pineapple was still in the "proximal" portion of JonBenet's small intestine. IOW, it had just left the duodenum, which is a short section that connects the small intestine to the stomach.
The small intestine is tubular, about 15-20 feet long with numerous folds, and connects to the large intestine, which is about another 5-10-feet long but larger in diameter. It would have been impossible for the cracked crab meal, eaten 4 or 5 hours earlier and now in the large intestine and almost fully digested, to have passed by the pineapple, still in the small intestine and almost totally undigested. The pineapple still had a slow 25-foot-long journey facing it before it could get to where the cracked crab meal was.
Thus, JonBenet had to have eaten the pineapple approximately one hour after the parents had gone to bed that night. And JonBenet would not have snacked on pineapple in the middle of the night with an intruder. Even John Ramsey says that would have been impossible -- JonBenet would have screamed bloody murder.
And the evidence further suggests she ate the pineapple at the breakfast room table with Burke because Burke's fingerprints were on the bowl of pineapple sitting on the table, a glass with a spent tea bag in it was also on the tablel (JonBenet doesn't drink tea but Burke does), and the glass was in front of Burke's normal place at the table.
The pineapple is a crucial piece of evidence that tends to eliminate the intruder theory and points to Burke as the perpetrator.
JMO