She's By The Cellar! In all seriousness, Saved By The Cross is the most likely translation of the acronym.
Wowww.. JR looks alot like Gene Hackman in the film Crimson Tide (1995) and his name is Captain Frank Ramsey in the film
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The references to films are the weirdest part about the note. Would Patsy have time to be making cinematic references in a note just after the death of her daughter?
It is just so weird to me that someone was able to think of phases from movies to put into a ransom note, especially one that (supposedly) was not planned in advance. Your mind would already be racing from the fact that your 6-year-old daughter was dead. Maybe I am not enough of a movie buff but I could not think of appropriate movie lines off the top of my head.
The note contained lines from Speed and Ransom. Apparently SBTC features in Crimson Tide, where it means Signed By The Captain.
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Wowww.. JR looks alot like Gene Hackman in the film Crimson Tide (1995) and his name is Captain Frank Ramsey in the film
Yep. I think the note was a suburban housewife's attempt to sound like a criminal mastermind, and is thus littered with movie dialog. So I wouldn't be surprised if SBTC was something she'd seen on screen.
Just as an aside: I'm obviously in the RDI camp but I have nothing but empathy for a family trying to protect their own. I do think they did it but I don't think they're necessarily villains.
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I think that it means Salvation Before Thee Christ. The twisted mind of the author may have tried to justify their actions through seeking some sort of redemption.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory
http://www.theopedia.com/salvation
The sunroom, tv room, and solarium are all the same room.
"Her friends have kept her in the TV room at the back of the house." Now I find this confusing. The body was just moved from the basement to a location near the door at the top of the stairs. It was then moved to be placed in front of the Christmas tree in the living room. So John is saying that Patsy is at the back of the house when the tree is next to the sunroom. He also said that at some time (not in DOI) Patsy was at some time "back in the study with Barbara and Fernie". In DOI he says that he put the body under the Christmas tree (without setting her down in the entry).
He just puts JBR's body in front of the tree and he says Patsy's at the back of the house when she's in a room a few feet away. The phrase "at the back of the house" implies distance from where the person who made the comment is located; otherwise, he'd say, "I was at the back of the house and Patsy was in the next room."
The solarium had 4 chairs each facing each other. 2 of those had high backs that you could disappear into. This was a relatively small room and TVs weren't flat screens and mounted on walls at the time. So I ask you, where did they put the TV? One wall was the entry to the living room. One wall had a doorway to the dining room with french doors. Another wall had an exit to the house and a line of windows. And one wall had the same type of windows that almost covered the entire wall.
I believe that when John was talking about the TV room, he was referring to the kids play room. Half of that room had the play area and the other half had a sofa facing a TV. That would be on the 2nd floor behind Burke's and JAR's room (at the back of the original house).
I admit that I can be absolutely wrong about the sunroom not being a TV room, but in this case you would have 2 chairs facing a TV in a relatively small room. With a family of not just 4 but 6, you'd have 2 high-back (kind of formal) chairs facing a TV. The solarium was also next to the formal dining room and the living room. Patsy loved formal entertaining. Unless you can point me to some evidence, I don't believe that the solarium (sunroom) was a TV room.
Just watched the videos and found the spiral staircase to look dangerous. Any chance she could have been pushed/fallen/etc down those stairs?
Good point. I always wondered if she could have been climbing on the railing over the spiral staircase and then fallen (or was pushed if you believe there was a sleep-over). None of that leads to strangulation. You call for an ambulance. Accidents happen. Why cover it up?