I too am currently re-reading Steve Thomas' book. I'd forgotten how much information was in it. Some things were very interesting to read again knowing that Steve Thomas took the information directly from the fresh police reports:
Regarding Burke: "Officer Rick French saw him being taken away, so he went over to talk to the boy. But John Ramsey intervened. The father told the policeman that Burke didn't know anything and had slept through it all, and he hustled the boy to a waiting vehicle. It was one of the poignant moments of the morning. His sister was thought to be the victim of a terrorist kidnapping, but Burke was exiled to the White's home, an unprotected location, where he would be watched over by friends instead of police.....I would later wonder why the parents had not awakened the boy immediately up on discovering that JonBenet was missing."
No kidding. Like I've said before - it isn't just what the Ramsey's DID do that cast suspicion on them - but equally what they did NOT do.
More..... (from the morning of the crime):
"Detective Arndt asked Ramsey, White and Fernie for their opinions of the ransom note. White and Fernie commented that it seemed to reveal a familiarity with John Ramsey. The use of such words as hence and attache indicated the writer was educated. John Ramsey had little to say about it and was unusually quiet.
"Detective Arndt could not account for John Ramsey until about noon.....Ramsey had been out of contact for over an hour.....Arndt noticed a marked change in Ramsey's attitude when she saw him again. Wheras he had been calm and collected earlier, he now sat alone in the dining room, preoccupied in thought, his leg bouncing nervously."
When the body had just been discovered....
"Patsy Ramsey was in the den with her friends, and when White shouted, Priscilla White and Barbara Fernie hurried toward the sound. Pasty did not move from the couch."
"The detective and the father were face-to-face over the body, and he asked if his daughter was alive. When Arndt confirmed that she was dead, John Ramsey groaned softly. He told Arndt, "It has to be an inside job."
This I'd forgotten about for some time and is just SO suspicious:
"At the Ramsey house a detective overheard John Ramsey on the telephone at 1:40 telling his pilot to ready his plane for a flight to Atlanta." (This is just a half an hour after finding his little girl DEAD and murdered!!)
One of the things that I think is a very important observation that the police noted in their reports is the LACK of interaction between Patsy and John that day and the next. Almost defies belief - that is unless you view it in light of one of THEM causing JonBenet's death..... Before "finding" the body...
"While Ramsey's language was clear and articulate, and he even smiled and joked , his overwrought wife was in the care of Priscilla White and Barbara Fernie. She looked vacant and dazed, repeatedly asking in a soft, empty voice, "Why didn't I hear my baby?" Despite her obvious distress, her husband did not go to her." It was as if the house had separated into two camps, His and Hers, with the friends dividing their time between the two."
Again on the odd lack of interaction between John and Patsy:
When John and Patsy left the house at 2:15pm an hour after discovering JonBenet's body:
"Patsy Ramsey, wearing a long fur coat, walked out sobbing uncontrollably and still leaning on her friends . She climbed into a car and was driven away. Her husband got into a van, and the coterie of family and friends relocated to the Fernie residence...."
My comment on the above - Not only is it downright bizarre that John and Patsy would leave in SEPARATE vehicles just one hour after 'finding' their daughter DEAD, and "lean" on friends rather than each other, - but why, instead of RUSHING TO GET BURKE - and protect him, not to mention tell him about his sister's death before he hears it from someone else or the television - they have NO concern for him and speed off to a "friends" house!!!! Unbelievable. They had NO worry about some "kidnapper" or terrorist. They knew who had killed their daughter and they KNEW they were all safe.
More.....
"In most child murders, parents resist leaving the body."
And.....
"(FBI) Agent Ron Walker added, "Look at the parents. No bull***** that's where you need to be."
And....
From police reports' observation of the Ramsey's that night at the Fernie's - "Throughout the night of December 26 they watched John and Patsy alternately sleeping, roaming the halls, and just sitting around, seemingly lost to the world. The parents said little to each other..."
"Once, a police officer overheard him (John Ramsey) cry softly, "I'm sorry....I'm so very sorry."
"At about 9 pm John lay beside Patsy for about ten minutes but then got up and left her again. Nothing was said between them. "
Patsy's two sisters Pam and Polly arrived and sat and read the Bible to Patsy.
"One said she had a vision in which JonBenet was an angel. A police officer later noticed that the Bible verses dealt with forgiveness ."
When Patsy asked her sisters to go get some things she needed from the house, "John was overheard to ask someone quietly, "Did you get my golf bag?"
The night of December 27th Arndt and Sgt. Larry Mason attempted to speak with John Ramsey. John would not talk to them alone. He sat there with two lawyers. "Ramsey asked NO QUESTIONS about the murder, the autopsy, or how JonBenet was killed."
One other interesting note in the book that I'd not picked up on before: "Bynum also said the pediatrician, Dr. Beuf, had determined that Burke Ramsey could not be interviewed by police." HUH???
Just some interesting observations from Steve's book. That's all the further I am right now but gives so much to ponder.
~Angel~
Think Marc Klaas 
And many others whose children have gone missing or been murdered. The list could go on and on.