Now that's a thought!openminded1 said:Maybe the suitcase by the window wasn't an entry point, but an escape route just in case?
Now that's a thought!openminded1 said:Maybe the suitcase by the window wasn't an entry point, but an escape route just in case?
I see your point, that could have saved time. Now here comes the "but"...LOLopenminded1 said:Or, as I think has been already stated elsewhere, the note was just a way to buy time. If an intruder was in the basement with JBR, it would take the parents a minute to read that long note and have it sink in. Maybe the suitcase by the window wasn't an entry point, but an escape route just in case?
But the Ramsey's were in the best position possible to remove the body from the house before calling the police. They could have put the body into their car in the garage, dumped it, then came back and called police.foxbluff said:Like you, I can't come up with any reason why a kidnapper would have left the body in the house. IMO it would be just as easy to leave the house with her dead as alive!
I tend to accept what I'm reading on the boards that says phedophiles don't kidnap for ransom. Their motive isn't money, so why bother with a ransom note?
I think that the Rams came up w/the ransom note to deflect suspicion from themselves. I think that they needed a way to explain why the coroner was going to discover evidence of sexual abuse.
And here comes the REbutt lol....foxbluff said:I see your point, that could have saved time. Now here comes the "but"...LOL
Just think how much time he could have saved by not composing/writing that novelette of a ransom note! LOL
I believe Patsy wrote the note in the hours after JonBenet was murdered in the full knowledge that she was already dead. I don't find it highly unlikely at all although I don't think she did it calmly or without assistance. The fact that the letters are very shakily formed at the beginning is an indication of her distraught emotional state IMO. I think also that she was forced to write it by someone who dictated the first five sentences to her, so she was just mechanically transcribing up to that point. I think she was then left to complete the note on her own but with instructions to write stuff that would encourage John to wait around patiently and do nothing and not to call the police, which she did. What I see then happening as her emotions really take hold of her is she then launches into a tirade of raging against John, which I see as deflecting the guilt of her involvement in the murder towards John as being responsible for it, I presume because he was away so often on business trips allowing the sexual predators easier acces to their prey. I see the STBC as standing for Saved by the Cross and included as a last minute veiled and desperate plea by a Christian for her own forgiveness. All very Patsy and all highly believable IMO.stonewall said:Very good observations. However, I agree with the other poster that it would be highly unlikely that a mother could calmly sit down and draw up draft after draft of a ransom note with the knowledge that her daughter was dead and how she had died. She would be totally unglued and unable to put two words together.
It would have been really interesting if the investigators has done this MysteryAddict. Unfortunately they didn't because IMO, all those who questioned her were absolutely certain that Patsy killed JonBenet in additon to writing the note. They couldn't make the leap and separate the two. And most people still can't.MysteryAddict said:Evidently some people don't want to believe their own eyes. You don't have to be an expert to see that the writing is identical.
I wonder if the investigators ever tried to confront Patsy
about the note by saying-
"Look Patsy we know you wrote the note but don't believe you killed your daughter.
Now tell us why you wrote it".
I can't imagine a middle aged woman like Patsy remembering the quotes from the movies Dirty Harry, Ransom, Speed, Ruthless People involving specificly the same subject. The ransom note killer got the quotes pretty close too or changed them a little bit to their liking. She would've had to have been interested in those portions of the movie and kept them in her memory bank to use for a rainy day. I've seen those movies several times, I'm much younger than her and I wouldn't remember those quotes or had any reason for them to stand out from the dialogue in the rest of the movie. I remember quotes from movies but they are usually pretty famous quotes or from a movie I really like and seen 100 times. The quotes usually don't involve basicly the same subject either. The subject being a person making ransom demands in a note or over the phone.Vet4Bush said:Wanna see something real interesting? Count the number of exclamation points (!) used in the ransom note. Now count the number of exclamation points (!) used in the annual Ramsey Christmas letter written by Patsy.
http://thewebsafe.tripod.com/1996christmasnewsletter.htm
Interesting, huh!
Patsy was a journalism student!!!!
That is what JMK said. Who knows now if it was an accidentJuliet10 said:Remember this crime was supposedly an accident so patsy had no time to plan those quotes in advance.
But JR was there too remember.Juliet10 said:I can't imagine a middle aged woman like Patsy remembering the quotes from the movies Dirty Harry, Ransom, Speed, Ruthless People involving specificly the same subject. The ransom note killer got the quotes pretty close too or changed them a little bit to their liking. She would've had to have been interested in those portions of the movie and kept them in her memory bank to use for a rainy day. I've seen those movies several times, I'm much younger than her and I wouldn't remember those quotes or had any reason for them to stand out from the dialogue in the rest of the movie. I remember quotes from movies but they are usually pretty famous quotes or from a movie I really like and seen 100 times. The quotes usually don't involve basicly the same subject either. The subject being a person making ransom demands in a note or over the phone.
Remember this crime was supposedly an accident so patsy had no time to plan those quotes in advance.
Did they own those crime movies?narlacat said:But JR was there too remember.
Someone in that house liked true crime, 'hence' the pics in the basement.
Someone in that house also liked to watch movies, 'hence' the home theatre.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:openminded1 said:7:00 explains alot. Thanks! In 1996, I was in college and could have cared less about this or any other case- unless it was a case of Corona!