We all have to be openminded cause we weren't there.
I wonder what you PDI people think how and why P bashed JB's head so hard to break it? Really wonder that...And why do you think they lied saying B slept whole night until he talked to the GJ that he was awake ? Was it two years later can't remember right now..
Well gosh Wally, it's not like Burke, John and Lin wouldn't have an agenda. Deny the flashlight and then put it into John's hands years later. Put Burke into the living room around the same time the murder was taking place. No one's lying here. There's no attempt at deception. Nope. Trust me.
Do you think it's in Burke's best interest to get to the bottom of this murder? If he did it? If John did it? If Patsy did it?
"I waited until I was an adult and then I turned my parents in."
"I turned them in when I was a child so I could be moved into my grandparents home."
"I admitted to striking her over the head, but the strangulation, the murder, belonged to mom or dad."
"I struck her over the head, strangled her and then admitted to it because I want everyone to know that I kill without remorse."
AND
"I never want this to be solved so my friends and my girlfriends will look at me weird for the rest of my life. I like people treating me like I can't be trusted."
Burke doesn't win. There is no good solution.
I'm not PDI, but I will say that people have been known to go into a rage and lose control. Patsy was getting into fights with JB. They argued what she would wear on the party on the 23rd. Patsy got her to wear a dress. They argued about what she would wear to the Whites. JB could get completely bratty. She's been described as being Patsy's project, but at 6 she was a handful. I love to imagine what she would have been when she was older--talent, intelligence, beauty. I imagine her selecting what college she would go to and her life being without turmoil with the right man, the right education and the right career. At 6 and hard to control. There's the other side. She could have been an out of control teenager and put Patsy through hell. That's all much better than what happened. That's my favorite fantasy.
It's an easy answer. JB was getting more and more bratty. Patsy was worried about how she would behave at the lake house and on the Disney cruise. JB got up to find something to eat. Patsy found her on the 1st floor and they got into a fight. John's asleep and Patsy wants to regain control so she takes JB into the basement to punish her. She gets JB into the most isolated location of the house so she can control the noise. JB's terrified of the basement. Instead of control, Patsy gets a panicking child. If Patsy can't gain control, she'll have to answer to John and there will be a huge fight. Escalation and that's a really easy story to tell.