I've been aware of Blue Bottle 01's theory for some while, but only recently am I "walking around in it", and your connecting PR's disorders with JR's success and prolonged grief over Beth really got my attention. One of the driving passions of narcissists and histrionics (I see Borderline, too, but not OCD in her Dx) is envy, and I can see how it could wrap itself and fester around JR's grief. PR had Stage 4 ovarian cancer before she was 40. She had chemo, she lost her hair, she lost the last part of her youth and probably a measure of her sex drive. She helped build JR's business, but he got the headlines and the award. Could there have been a deep narcissistic anger because the death of John's daughter rated more tears than her own losses? Did JBR's murder give her a kind of victory by eclipsing Beth's accident and the billion dollars? I'm not saying this happened, just thinking out loud, rearranging possibilities to see whether meaningful pattern emerges.
Assuming any of this applies, it would certainly cast a different light on the pictures of Beth in JR's private bath. I've always found those kind of creepy, but what if he understood, whether consciously or instinctively, that he needed to sequester his grief from his wife? As I recall, he used to be up at night, crying alone in his bathroom, and Patsy, if she heard him, left him to it. She was no housekeeper. I can think of no other place in the house, apart from the basement, where she was least likely to go.
Well, as I said, just thinking....
You possess fantastic critical thinking skills,
Meara, thank you for expressing them. It seems
Blue Bottle 01 and I may be the only ones active in the forum who believe the murder was premeditated, or as BB is apt to say, preplanned.
Oh, that Patsy was a clever Fat Cat. She purchased an Essentials blazer very similar to Priscilla's. She left JARs luggage with its incriminating contents under the basement window; Burke's knife is in the WC. She blamed the housekeeper and Santa McReynold's.
As a director of a play might do; Patsy prepares the opening scene of her creation for us:
1) She let's us know that John's business [success] is related to the murder. A copy of the October, 1996, Boulder County Business Report was found near John's desk. It had his picture circled with a red, hand-drawn, heart. The others in the photo were marked X.
Posted by Maikai on Aug-25-01 at 09:09 AM (EST)
"In "Ricochet" the victim the psycho went after had appeared in the paper receiving an award. The psycho was obsessed with revenge, and after he escaped from prison to pursue his victim, they went into his jail cell, and they dumped a box out, and showed up close on the screen, the article with the victim receiving an award. Either no, or an X was on the other people in the picture, and a heart drawn around the victim's head. The markups on the Entrepreneur article are very similar to the article in "Ricochet."
2) She let's us know this is a religious matter. The Holy Bible is bookmarked with a satin ribbon to 118 Psalms and includes this same figure as the ransom demand amount of $118,000 which is a lowly amount considering the value of JBs life and John's net worth.
In Patsy's mind, she may not believe she murdered JonBenét but rather sent her daughter to heaven, to a better place, so she would never know what it's like to lose a child, etc.
3) She let's us know this is about incest. The dictionary page is folded back to point to the word "incest" and dresses her child in oversized panties to point to this fact not away from it.
4) She writes a lengthy ransom note. No matter how stoic, no matter how strong-willed, no matter how heartless a person is, no matter how important the reason is, a kind, loving, devoted mother could not sit down and write a 3 pg RN immediately after their precious daughter's death, accidental or otherwise. There is proof in the pad that there was a practice RN. I think Patsy had the RN inside the pad for a while until it came time to use it by copying it and leaving it on the stairs, then destroying the practice note.
This Fat Cat can fight and doesn't care how empty it sounds!
"I didn't put the bowl there. OK? I didn't put the bowl there," Patsy told Smit.
"But now, I'm telling you they are not somebody else's. I'm telling that they belong to the one of two of you," Haney responded.
"Well, I don't know. I did not put that there. No," Patsy said.
It was Patsy's fingerprints on the bowl according to police suggesting that Patsy gave the fruit to her daughter. But if Patsy did give it to her, and was lying about it, the investigators wondered, could she be lying about everything?
"Sometimes, the simplest most obscure little thing could be so significant," Haney said.
It was Patsy's fingerprints on the bowl according to police suggesting that Patsy gave the fruit to her daughter. But if Patsy did give it to her, and was lying about it, the investigators wondered, could she be lying about everything?
"Sometimes, the simplest most obscure little thing could be so significant," Haney said.
"Right. I did not feed JonBenet pineapple. OK? So I don't know how it got in her stomach. And where this bowl of pineapple came from. I can't recall putting that there," Patsy said.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/searching-the-interrogation-tapes/
I can't recall putting that there," Patsy said.
Her fingerprints are on it! Some people would say Patsy is obviously stonewalling. I would disagree. Patsy is clearly setting her defense against possible murder charges.
From the same source:
What does she think about these fibers? Says Patsy: "When I - after John discovering the body, and she was brought to the living room, when I laid eyes on her, I knelt down and hugged her. But I was, had my whole body on her body. My sweater fibers, or whatever I had on that morning, are going to transfer to her clothing, OK?"
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