The blow to JB's head has been overwhelmingly declared by top forensic specialists to have been done with extreme force. Add to that the fact that the blow landed as it did, and I have to imagine seeing someone taking good aim with great intent. And I have to imagine JB being in a position facing away from the perp, as others have also speculated on this forum.
Given the type of wrist ligatures that were found on JB, I think it very possible she could have been initially gagged, then bound somehow to something by her wrists for a period of time long enough to stabilize her and execute the head blow. The loop ties on the wrist ligature would have allowed for her wrists to be quickly released once she was struck, and a gag could have quickly been removed, leaving no marks of any kind. A cloth gag of some sort could have accounted for some of the unsourced fibers.
I need to think about this for a while, but the 911 call from the party on the 23rd sticks in my craw as a reason why someone might have come to the decision that JB would have to be silenced.
And the clues which point directly to Patsy could have easily been part of a setup for her to be the one to take the fall in the event that the killer could not succeed in following plan A, which I think included being able to get the body out of the house as soon as the police could be deflected on a hunt away from the house for a bogus kidnapper.
Would it have been unthinkable that someone could have been hired to do the deed by ONE of the parents, with the plan to fool the other? And in case that went awry, the other parent would have to be set up st the killer?? JMO
My apologies, in advance, for the length of this post. It just would not be the same all chopped into various posts on multiple threads. Besides, this post and this thread is about premeditation. *The graphic content is clearly marked in case anyone wishes to skip that small portion.
The blow to JB's head has been overwhelmingly declared by top forensic specialists to have been done with extreme force. Add to that the fact that the blow landed as it did, and I have to imagine seeing someone taking good aim with great intent. And I have to imagine JB being in a position facing away from the perp, as others have also speculated on this forum.
Yes, I believe this to be an accurate description,
midwest mama. The force required to knock a hole out of her skull and create an 8" fracture was intended to kill or, in the very least, to incapacitate JonBenet.
Perhaps JBR wore a blindfold of some type, perhaps the sleeping mask, or a silk scarf, to further prevent her from realizing the blow about to occur. Is there evidence of this possibility?
Or the strike against her head could have occurred while she was lying on her bed, maybe while she slept. If so, her bladder would have released onto the bed sheets. But since she was still alive, her body functions have slowed, causing blood carrying oxygen to supply the most vital organs, thus, her kidneys continued to function. She lived another hour or so after her critical head injury occurred which is enough time for the bladder to accumulate urine for output.
Some of the cord bindings were most likely applied while on her bed since the cords' fibers were vacuumed from them.
Patsy's Essential sweater jacket fibers are tied into the knot, so whether or not Patsy tied the knots, her sweater jacket was nearby the white cord for any transfer to occur in the places that they are located, including but not limited to her paint tote where one part the broken paint brush is found.
The killer either wore the Essential sweater or toted Patsy's sweater jacket to the basement along with JonBenet.
August 2000 Patsy Ramsey Atlanta Interview - from a candyrose:
0200
3 MR. LEVIN: I think that is
4 probably fair. Based on the state of the
5 art scientific testing, we believe the
fibers
6 from her jacket were found in the paint
7 tray, were found tied into the ligature found
8 on JonBenet's neck, were found on the blanket
9 that she is wrapped in, were found on the
10 duct tape that is found on the mouth, and
11 the question is, can she explain to us how
12 those fibers appeared in those places that
13 are associated with her daughter's death.
Given the type of wrist ligatures that were found on JB, I think it very possible she could have been initially gagged, then bound somehow to something by her wrists for a period of time long enough to stabilize her and execute the head blow. The loop ties on the wrist ligature would have allowed for her wrists to be quickly released once she was struck, and a gag could have quickly been removed, leaving no marks of any kind. A cloth gag of some sort could have accounted for some of the unsourced fibers.
There are definitely brown fibers belonging to an item involved in the crime.
Regarding the unsourced fibers:
Brown fibers:
Lou Smit Deposition (Atlanta, Georgia) Wolf vs Ramsey Civil Action
I want to ask you whether there were a number of fibers found at the crime scene -- being the house, JonBenet's body, her clothing, the blanket -- a number of fibers that were found that have never been identified or sourced to any item or individual.
A. Yes. There are many fibers, unexplained fibers, without a source found not only on the body of JonBenet but on the duct tape, on the bindings, also on the broken piece of the paintbrush. There are many, numerous fibers found at the crime scene that have not been explained.
Q. And does that include brown cotton fibers?
A. Yes. Brown cotton fibers are found on the broken piece of the paintbrush. Brown cotton fibers are found on the duct tape, on the ligature, and on the body of JonBenet.
None of the brown cotton fibers were sourced along with the pink and purple fibers located on adhesive side of the tape.
While a cloth gag would prevent screams from being heard, wouldn't it leave fibers in or around her mouth that would later appear on the tape? Would a silk scarf or a brown cloth item leave telltale fibers if she had been gagged with the scarf or cloth across her mouth, between her lips, that is tied lightly in the back, before the tape was applied? IOW, transferring unsourced brown fibers onto the tape. There was one artifact stuck to her tongue.
If JonBenet was blindfolded with a mask or scarf and/or gagged with a silk scarf or a piece of brown cotton cloth then that places JBR in a highly vulnerable position.
Add the ligatures and the killer has all but total control over this child to be fatally struck on the head. The killer had an hour during which time she could be poked, prodded, raped and then strangled.
If the murder was determined to be a must, after being propelled by the events involved in the 911 call on
Dec. 23, then the killer had a short amount of time to plan and execute the child's death. Not impossible.
If a "hit man" was hired for the dastardly deed, it was in short order. Never happened. Evidence does not support a "hit man" or hired killer.
Oh, but there is that pesky duvet and sham in the blue suitcase that must be accounted for with the matching fibers found on her body, her vagina, the tape and the white blanket.
JAR's dried semen on the blue duvet and sham can be ruled out of the equation. The latest possible time that the suitcase arrived at the Ramsey home, with the duvet and sham inside stained with JAR's DNA, was December 19 when JAR flew to GA.
Therefore, the Samsonite was in the home on
Dec. 23, the same evening of the R Christmas party. This is the evening that I believe JonBenet wore her pink Barbie nightgown to bed that was later found with red stains on it. And, to be fair, BR and Patsy's tDNA were located somewhere on the pink gown.
It's the same pink Barbie nightgown found in the basement on the Dec. 26 along with her body. Her bed pillow's case also showed evidence of a couple of red stains. These two items, the pink Barbie gown and the Beauty and the Beast pillowcase, may have been stained with her red fluid sometime on the night of
Dec. 23 throughout and until the morning of Dec. 24, and until whatever time she changed into play clothes or at least until she is changed into the purple velvet dress for Christmas Eve services followed by their dinner at Pasta Jay's.
If JBR wore the red stained Barbie gown on
Dec. 23 and on the night of Dec. 24, she wore the 2pc pale pink pjs shown of her in the Christmas morning pictures taken on Dec. 25, then, from Dec. 25 morning she wears the pale pink pjs until she changes. By 4:30pm, we know she was wearing the white Gap shirt, black velvet pants and vest with, iirc, little black boots trimmed with [faux] animal fur that zipped in the front.
The black velvet Gap outfit came with a black belt; however, I am not sure it was used in the commission of the crime or even if she wore the black velvet belt to the White's home.
JonBenet's body was discovered on Dec. 26 wearing the same long sleeved starred Gap shirt she had worn to the White's dinner party, along with white long johns stained in the front with urine, and size 12 day of the week panties with a tight garrote pulled around her neck and wrapped in her favorite white blanket with the stained pink Barbie nightgown and placed on the cold and moldy floor of the concrete cellar.
This evidence directly ties the
December 23 events with the killing on December 25, immho, oc.
I need to think about this for a while, but the 911 call from the party on the 23rd sticks in my craw as a reason why someone might have come to the decision that JB would have to be silenced.
Also, regarding the date of
Dec. 23, the date of the R Christmas party and first 911 call, we have never been privy to learning when nor how the Dr Seuss book came to be placed inside the 7lb Samsonite that belonged to JAR via Lucinda.
I have my doubts the book was placed inside by JAR. I think JAR was floored to learn the title of the adult's book. But that was alright, for everyone and anyone involved, since his daddy hired an attorney for him, his sister, Melinda, and his mom, Lucinda.
No. JAR would not have to reveal the actual title of the book nor would he, just as importantly, be required to answer questions about the contents found inside his mom's Samsonite that contain fibers directly related to the murder. JAR wanted the murderer of his 6yo half-sister JonBenet to be forgiven.
WARNING: graphic content
Dr. Suess books are innocent and fun to read, silently or aloud. They are entertaining. His work is legendary. His books are classics. Dr. Suess only wrote children's books except that for the one, and only one, that he wrote with nude drawings in 1939 which was meant strictly for adults.
Having seen these nude drawings online, they do not necessarily fall into the category as pornographic in nature. They do, however, promote the idea that total nudity is appropriate, natural, preferred.
One particular page has a drawing of a squatting nude girl who is depositing her feces onto the pile of hay outside of a barn. With the horses looking on.
The second and last printing of the adult Dr. Seuss book with nude drawings was in 1989, thus, making it fairly rare 7 years later in 1996 since the sales were not successful.
I wonder if an adult bookstore in Denver would have sold such a novelty item.
IIRC, no one in Denver publically came forward with having recognized JR as a patron of an adult bookstore but did LE check in other cities, such as Tucson, where JR conducted some of his rumored 1994-95 extramarital pleasure with KB? Incidentally, KB was petite at
5' and 92 pounds at the time. She said JR
specifically requested this information before meeting with her. IIRC, she was a blonde.
GRAPHIC CONTENT ENDS
But, back to the blue duvet and sham,
"According to the CBI, fibers from the sham and comforter were found on JonBenet's shirt, on her vaginal area, on the duct tape, on the hand ligature, and inside the body bag." (SMF P 147; PSMF P 147.)" (Carnes 2003:Note 32, p. 68)
Steve Thomas does not dispute this blue duvet and sham fiber fact in his deposition. The blue duvet fibers were found on her vaginal area.
When BR is asked, in his interview by the CPS person, with LE watching in the other room, about what may have happened to his sister, he responded, by saying, that he knew what happened to his sister. She was carried quietly down to the basement.
For Rs neighbor, Ms. Stanton, to have heard a little girl's shrill scream, a scream lasting long enough to waken her, sometime after midnight, then JonBenet would have to have been alive and near the boiler room, where the open duct leads directly outdoors, just feet from where JBR last released her bladder, outside of the entry into the concrete hellhole, where she was wrapped in the white blanket that was her favorite.
Her favorite? But her mother, could not remember tucking her daughter's favorite white blanket around her on Christmas night at bedtime. Patsy feigned not knowing, by claiming, that her daughter gets too hot at night. Patsy never admitted to covering JonBenet with her favorite blanket on Christmas night but she admits to tucking in the sheet around her real tightly, you know, then kissing her goodnight.
BORGs know the favorite white blanket was most likely downstairs in the basement clothes dryer at TOD and was never pulled off her bed that night.
Follow the evidence:
Fibers from the white cord were on JonBenet's Beauty and the Beast bed sheets where the red stained pillowcase was, too. Fibers from Patsy's sweater jacket are found in the knots of the white cord. The red fiber found on the white blanket is from PRs Essential's sweater jacket. Also found on the white blanket is a fiber from the Samsonite's blue duvet and sham. A blue duvet and sham fiber is on JonBenet's white shirt. A fiber from the blue duvet is in the coroner's body bag when inspected by the ME.
One investigator suggested that it was possible that at one time, the black tape was stuck onto Patsy's Essential's sweater jacket since four, according to ST, four of those type fibers were found on the adhesive side of the tape.
The Tape Fibers:
CellMark laboratories, who conducted the testing on the duct tape, found, red, blue, pink, purple and brown cloth fibers, and animal fur probably beaver.
The evidence tells me that if JBR wore the pink Barbie nightgown with the red stains on it during the night of
Dec. 23 then that is likely the same time her pillowcase was stained with red fluid. As well,
Dec. 23 is the same night the first 911 call was placed.
Dec. 23 is also when JonBenet was said to be found sitting, in a somewhat pouting position, on the steps leading from the kitchen on the first floor to the butler's kitchen. JonBenet expressed that she did not feel pretty. What could have taken her prettiness away?
She did not feel pretty the evening of the Rs party on
Dec. 23. We know she did not look pretty when JR brought her cold body up from the basement on Dec. 26 at 1:08 or appx 12 hours after she was brutally murdered.
Her parents buried her body on New Year's Eve in GA. The next day, while in GA, they went to CNN studios in Atlanta and performed their first of what would become several televised interviews.
JonBenet was buried with a scarf, a bracelet, a tiara and a cat.