Committing murder is not a "cover up", which is exactly what John and/or Patsy did if we're to accept BDI. She was alive when her parents made a decision to sacrifice her life for her brother's, and choked her to death. A cover up is when, upon finding your daughter unconscious due to a blow to the head inflicted by her brother, you call 911 and say she fell down the stairs. Fashioning a torture device designed to kill is premeditated murder. The cause of death was asphyxiation.
To say that neither parent would cover for the other is a wild assumption. Sure it sounds illogical to us, but stranger occurrences have happened. Casey Anthony's father stayed with his wife who declares Casey's innocence even after he was accused of sexual abuse. He's estranged from Casey while his wife is still in contact with her. That sounds absolutely crazy, but dysfunctional dynamics exist.
Peppermintswirlz,
The parents need not have killed JonBenet to instigate a cover up !
They might only have staged a homicide, i.e. the wine-cellar crime-scene. As I understand it this is James Kolar's position, although not spelled out word for word.
Kolar's BDI All has Burke doing it all: killing and assaulting JonBenet with some amateur staging thrown in. Along come the parents and move JonBenet down to the basement, redress, wipe down, and apply a ligature device, voila - you have the wine-cellar crime-scene?
This seems to be the best explanation for most of the evidence, at least better than either JDI, or PDI, yet it does not rule them out.
Remember both parents did not remove crucial forensic evidence, e.g. the pineapple snack, yet someone removed the clean size-12's, weird, probably along with JonBenet's size-6 underwerwear?
So they removed what they knew about, and left what they were ignorant about. This might explain JR's cornucopia of stories regarding various items in the basement?
if the case is PDI, why did Patsy kill her baby, then inflict a fake sexual assault, and place her in the wine-cellar, JonBenet was her Project?
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