Obviously I'm in the group that believes the initial attack took place on the 2nd floor in Jonbenet's room and may have progressed into JAR's room(or vice versa).
Having said that, if we consider the helter skelter nature of these various rooms as mere staging, where do we draw the line? Are the trinkets on the floor staging or is does it signify a child at play who was interrupted? Was the trophy just tossed without much thought or did it get thrown during a dispute? List goes on.
What do you see on that bed that makes you believe it is staging, her body moved to the basement, and then "dispersed flotsam"?
IMO...the condition of JAR's room (on the surface) does not show any typical signs of staging. It shows someone interrupted, we see a sense of urgency with drawers pulled out, etc. Or do you consider these things to potentially be a form of staging? Now the moving of items from his room down into the hellhole would technically be staging but why not more cleanup after the fact? Shut the closet, shut the drawers, tidy up that bed, etc.
Like I said, where does the line get drawn and more importantly, why?
THis isn't really all that surprising. That bed was rarely slept in.
That is a huge leap. For the sake of this conversation let's say you're right. Does it really change anything?
Yes there are but also note that if you are going to place a few books in that spot, that's the only place they will fit.
singularity,
Well I'm with you on thinking stuff happened in JonBenet's bedroom or another room, etc.
Also I tend to draw the line if what I'm speculating on does not fit in with surrounding items.
What do you see on that bed that makes you believe it is staging, her body moved to the basement, and then "dispersed flotsam"?
If you contrast the two photos one bed is a mess the other is neat and tidy, how so?
So I got to thinking, after re-reading Patsy's interview again, then looking at the photos,
Hey JonBenet should be in the bed with the lamp next to it? Like Patsy buys size-12's for her niece but gives them to JonBenet and she buys a new bedside lamp for JonBenet's room but puts it next to the guest bed, what is going on?
One proviso is that it could all be coincidence and the tidy bed is JonBenet's, except on Christmas night she was in what became the
messy bed.
Yes it could be JAR's room has been staged or it might simply represent unfinished business, e.g. a prior staging now abandoned.
If you accept JonBenet made it to her bed, e.g. her hair was dressed for bed, then stuff happened in/on her bed. I'm thinking the other bed was used to lay JonBenet out on, clean her up, redress her etc? This results in this bed becoming messy, untidy and a dump of unintended forensic evidence, e.g. bloodstained pillow?
So eventually the bed JonBenet had intended to sleep in was made up, her doll was placed on it, along with some of her clothes, so to give a nice authentic domestic feel. Outside of a homicide scenario this need not apply.
I can definitely see Patsy's hand at work here.
That is a huge leap. For the sake of this conversation let's say you're right. Does it really change anything?
Yes, for some on the fence it can help to highlight that some aspects of her bedroom might have been staged, e.g. the messy bed should not really look like that if an intruder snuck into JonBenet's room and lifted her from her bed, how come all the mess, just on one bed of course? I'm suggesting this might result from an abandonded prior staging, e.g. removal of evidential items, then re-arranging stuff to look a random mess, e.g. pillow. pink top, and duvet askew, why?
Yes there are but also note that if you are going to place a few books in that spot, that's the only place they will fit.
Sure, but it does look as if this is the bed JonBenet normally slept in?
A preliminary conclusion is that JonBenet's bedroom alike the wine-cellar has been staged, not a surprise if you want to backup your RN !
I'll drop this in here as it illuminates some recent discussions:
John Ramsey, Boulder Police Department Interview 1998, excerpt
21 MIKE KANE: Okay. When you saw
22 JonBenet in longjohns that morning, what did you
23 think? It wasn't her pajamas.
24 JOHN RAMSEY: On the morning I
25 found her?
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1 MIKE KANE: Yes. (INAUDIBLE.)
2 JOHN RAMSEY: I remember she had
3 the top on, she had worn to bed, that she had
4 worn when I laid her down. Her lower body was
5 clothed, but I don't remember, seems like it was
6 a white pull-up.
7 MIKE KANE: Like longjohn type?
8 JOHN RAMSEY: Like longjohns,
9 right.
10 MIKE KANE: Not pajamas?
11 JOHN RAMSEY: No.
12 MIKE KANE: Think about that.
13 JOHN RAMSEY: No, they were like
14 white tights or something. As I remember. And
15 she looked normally dressed. She looked --
16 MIKE KANE: Was she -- you know
17 what longjohns are?
18 JOHN RAMSEY: Yeah.
19 MIKE KANE: What are under --
20 (INAUDIBLE)?
21 JOHN RAMSEY: Yeah, they might
22 have been, I am sure, you know, I mean you have
23 them, but I mean my memory of it is they were
24 white, she had it looked like she had underwear
25 on under those. She looked normal in that
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1 respect. I didn't see any -- clothes weren't
2 askew.
3 MIKE KANE: Without dragging out
4 photographs or anything like that, but would she
5 normally have, when Patsy put her pajamas on put
6 a pair of long underwear on her?
7 JOHN RAMSEY: She might have. I
8 mean, it was, you know, it was winter. Usually
9 when she conks out like that, before she gets to
10 bed, we get her comfortable, but we don't get
11 her nightgown on her all the time. So like
12 Patsy obviously left that shirt on. I don't
13 remember if she had those tights on or the
14 longjohns on under her black pants. Patsy just
15 took the black pants off and put her bed or she
16 pulled those on, but...
17 MIKE KANE: What I am getting at,
18 the person that did this had put her in those.
19 JOHN RAMSEY: Oh.
20 MIKE KANE: I mean would those be
21 unusual for her to be wearing --
22 JOHN RAMSEY: No, they wouldn't.
23 MIKE KANE: -- longjohns?
24 JOHN RAMSEY: It's with the feet?
25 MIKE KANE: I am not talking pajama
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1 bottoms, I am talking about longjohns that are
2 just, you know, like the proverbial flap on
3 back. I am not saying they had it, they had a
4 flap, but those kind of --
5 JOHN RAMSEY: It wouldn't be, no,
6 it would be unusual for her to have those on.
7 Leggings, kind of just a regular nightgown. She
8 didn't always wear a nightgown to bed. If she
9 was awake when she went to bed, she got into a
10 nightgown and brushed her teeth, got into bed.
11 But if she was asleep, we usually just tried to
12 make her comfortable, make sure she was warm.
13 Didn't go into the trouble of getting her into a
14 nightgown, necessarily. Sometimes she had a tee
15 shirt on.
So John is asked directly about the
longjohns and he says he saw them, but nobody mentions they belong to Burke Ramsey,
proverbial flap aside.
My take is BPD have twigged to JonBenet wearing Burke's longjohns, and think it is significant?