Its strange to me the bed was made... JB was supposedly "kidnapped" but it was important to make up his bed with all the chaos going on that morning, that would be the last thing on anyones mind to make up a bed. Honestly, I cannot see him staying up all night long, after a long day and he was 9 years old, he would've slept at some point, maybe he didnt sleep in "his" bed, but another bed? But LE checked on him and he was in the bed, and he was awake during the 911 call and if is true, he asked "what did you find", was he being sincere, not knowing about JB, or did he go to bed knowing what happened then woke up to his parents yelling(if they are guilty then there wouldnt have to be any screaming about her being gone), just like the RN not actually being on the stairs, so if he awoke to them yelling, why were they if they knew or did murder JB
A couple different ways to answer you:
BR went to bed after JR assisted him, as JR said in his testimony. BR, from his bedroom during the night, "heard voices" and also, "could hear the refrigerator door opening" from his room, as he testified, and to me, the only reason he would have made the comment about the refrigerator door is because he DID hear it open from his room that night. BR was either later coached by the R's about JB's murder with the "kidnapping" theory built in, or he possibly sneaked out of his bed to spy on things he was hearing, but returned to his room upon having no reason to fear anything too unusual was amiss: JB had been "taken quietly downstairs", something he had seen other times.
If BR awakened to hear "yelling" by his parents, it can only mean that PR was reacting to the RN much as both she and JR testified. If both the R's had colluded and set up the staging, the ONLY reason for them to do this would be to further the staging to convince Burke of the kidnapping. On the other hand, if they had colluded, as you say, there really was no reason for any yelling if they did not want to convince Burke, and instead BR might have gotten out of bed to be in the background of the 911 call once he heard his mother begin the call process. And that call to 911 was his first clue that something was amiss with JB. If that was the case, his later discovered reported question at the end of the call makes perfect sense.
Another thought: There was yelling by both PR and JR, just as they both testified because PR acted totally alone and had begun the play-acting display of her lifetime, leaving JR totally innocent of any complicity. Here, I have to wonder how those Israeli shirt fibers were found on JB.
Then this - there was yelling by both PR and JR because PR really did find the RN as she said, and the inconsistent stories of the state of JR's dress, where the note went and through whom before it landed on the back hallway floor for JF to see, came into play, suggesting that PR at this point DID believe JB had been kidnapped, and was responding to JR's "organizational direction" on what to do next. Except, she went ahead and called 911 (before JR was able to stop her - which could have made him snap at Burke, "we're not talking to you"), as she some years later finally testified during an interview even though early on she agreed with JR that it was him who told her to call police. Many believe that PR's being heavily sedated soon after the crime affected some of her early public appearances and statements.
At no time from the time Officer French arrived to be able to begin the first observations of JR and PR, was there ever a time that ANYONE reported JR had unusually reactive actions to the crime such as those that PR displayed. A few things observed about him was his restlessness after there was no call from the kidnapper, his disappearance from Arndt's scope at the house, while no one else was ever said to be unaccounted for, his cordial manner with LE, his ability to be responsible for Burke's transfer to the Whites, calling in Beuf to get medication for PR, making phone calls for financial arrangements and to his pilot. A man who remained able to function very well under pressure, actually. As some called him, "the ice man".
Absolutely no doubt that from the time of the 911 call forward on the 26th, everything was in a cluster. There is one line of thought that I also pose:
BOTH PR and JR stated that PR was the one in bed awakening to John being in the shower. IF they did not collude on JB's murder or the staging, then at least we have this one piece of testimony that matches, which can contribute to a theory. And, if PR was in bed, then according to what nearly anyone should assume, she was NOT in her clothing from the night before and would have then had to put it back on, as she also stated. No mention from ANYONE at the crime scene that morning that PR's clothing looked in the least way disheveled or soiled, as one might expect if she had been wearing it all night while in the midst of JB's murder...all sorts of strange fibers, hairs, etc, should have been visible on black velvet pants and a red sweater. Those types of clothing are almost like magnets for those things.
But, JR, on the other hand, being in the shower, does then give us reason to suspect there could have been a lot of crime scene connective evidence being washed down the drain, and that fresh clothing was a necessity, though not something that would have been suspected as being unusual for a morning routine. The challenge here is that there was speculation that only one side of the Ramsey bed had been slept in during the night. With BOTH of the R's stating that JR was in the shower when PR awoke, I have to then believe if only one side of the bed was used, it was PR in the bed, and NOT JR who had used that bed that night. At another time later on, JR stated that PR normally slept very soundly, so it was not surprising she wouldn't have heard anything going on during the night. It was JR who bolstered his story of being so soundly asleep that particular night by taking Melatonin because he wanted to be sure to sleep for his flight (the one he had Archuletta hired for as pilot) the next day to Michigan. And, oh, PR was already asleep when he retired to read for a while before he popped his Melatonin. So, PR could not have testified that JR was in bed when she went there to fall asleep.
I'm rambling, I know, away from the discussion about BR hearing the "yelling", but if we look at the statements that were CONSISTENT from both of the R's related to the crime, we have PR getting JB ready for bed in her room, JR being absent from JB's room at that time, but later assisting BR to bed (because PR said she did not put BR to bed, knowing JR had most likely seen to it while she readied for the next morning trip), and then PR being asleep in bed when JR said he retired, though again BOTH R's said when PR awakened JR was not in the bed, but in the shower. BR said he heard voices, etc. from his room, and was in his bed when LE checked, so he, at least was in his bed sometime that night also.
Three of the 4 Ramseys were in their beds that night, with corroborating testimony. The only one who has no corroboration for having been in bed during the night is JR.
