The Boulder police didn't find any incriminating tapes....except the home protection one they tried to spin. It would have been leaked. There's a certain personality and age group that are into quoting movies....look at the contestants in the Boulder Movie line contest every year. A lot of people have home movie theatres---it doesn't mean they have a full collection of extortion movies. You can't do what you don't know, and there is absolutely no evidence that either of the Ramseys were interested, let alone be able to quote the lines in the note. Much more likely a younger male perp. Since the Boulder police didn't follow up on a large percentage of the leads, who knows if someone turned in a possible suspect because of his movie interest.
No evidence that the Ramseys even knew what a garrotte was let alone how to tie the knots.
No murder of a child makes sense---but I'm convinced in the case of JBR it's not a parent--for from it.
someone else want to take this one apart? my head is starting to hurt from all the banging of it on the wall...sigh.
i really -- i can't -- but i will....
we've been through this exact discussion over and over --
first of all, what 'proof' is there of someone quoting movie lines? I know a lot of lines from movies I thought were funny and am fond of, doesn't mean I advertise on the 'movie quoting line' club forum. just because movie lines were quoted does not mean the person has to be a movie buff. they just have to remember lines -or look them up - if they think they sound like what a ransom note should say. movies are memorable. can you not remember any lines from any movie? because if you do, i guess that means you are 'a certain personality and age group' that likes to quote movies.
and by the way, patsy was into memorizing, performing, and acting. there's 'a certain personality and age group' (or at least type) for you that has a reason to learn lines....
since you think it's a young male perp who is into extortion movies and quoting them and the like, I guess he was also into words like 'attache', including the accent on it, and adding a caret to insert a word in the note, and knowing the inside phrases of John Ramsey's inner circle like calling each other 'fat cats', and bothering to tell John Ramsey that he respected his business....oh, and telling him to 'use that good ole southern common sense of his'. and this young male extortion movie buff using the words 'the two gentlemen watching over your daughter do not particularly like you'. I guess this guy also likes to you use the words 'and hence' as well.
You think that 'certain personality and age group' -- extortion movie quoting young male perp-type talks like that, and would make a comment about John Ramsey's good southern common sense? why is he asking for $118,000? if he knows this much about John Ramsey, certainly he would know he is worth a lot more than that - or I guess this young male perp also knew about his bonus as well.
"We see only what we know" - Goethe
Just in case you don't know what that reference means - like fallacies, in your case:
from a cognitive scientist and a computer programmer:
"...thus, the more you know about a subject, the more you are able to understand the "language" of that subject and the more you able to understand exactly what it is you are looking at. this holds true in science, music, art, language, medicine, etc."
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No evidence that the Ramseys even knew what a garrotte was let alone how to tie the knots.
- Patsy took macrame, arts/crafts, what have you
- Burke took Boyscouts and knew how to tie knots - there are quotes about Burke going around the house making things with his string, whittling with his knife, and sailing with his dad
- John Ramsey had a sailboat and knew how to tie knots
- John Ramsey was in the service, in the Philippines, learned skills there as well, knew what a 'twister' was - read it in his interviews, reference to an old term for a garrotte
Regardless, you don't have to 'know' what a garrotte 'is' to make a strangulation device. The word is being used to name the device, but that doesn't need to employ a sophisticated knowledge of what one defines as a 'garrotte'. That's Lou Smit talking through you.
Fallacies, assumptions, and beliefs....