Anti-K,
Except me, of course.
I disagree. The garrote was fake, assembled as staging. It could not have worked as advertised, JonBenet's hair was embedded into the knotting on the paintbrush handle, so it could not mechanically operate as a garrote!
I agree, the Autopsy Report does indeed report asphyxiation as a cause of death.
mmm, not sure about that, do you have any citations or sources to back this claim up?
Any citations or sources would be of assistance.
Sources or citations would help. If the missing piece of the paintbrush handle was left inside JonBenet then not being staged with sexual assault absent might be questionable.
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BBM
As a slip knot the ligature should have tightened around the neck almost exactly as you see in this video:
http://tinyurl.com/mg4vvhr
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Jonbenet Ramsey’s killer placed duct tape over the 6-yaear-old’s mouth and
tightened a cord around her neck until she died. RMN; jan 1/97; Brennan and Bartels
“My guess is that the child had her head whacked against something and then
was still alive and strangled,” said Dr. Robert Kirschner, a retired deputy chief medical examiner for Cook County, Illinois. PMPT; p. 964
However
the strangulation by the noose had created a deep furrow in her neck, which acted like a tourniquet and caused complete interruption of the blood flow to and from her brain. The specialists estimated that ten to forty-five minutes might have elapsed between the blow to her head and the cessation of Jonbenet’s vital functions, which was probably
caused by the noose being pulled tight with the help of the stick attached to the cord. PMPT; P. 1154
The person
pulling the cord and tightening the noose little by little around Jonbenet’s neck... PMPT; P. 1540
The cord tied around Jonbenet’s neck was not a classical garrote in which both ends of the cord are attached to a turning device such as a stick. In this case, the
cord had been placed around Jonbenet’s neck like a noose, the cord pulled through a knot, and a stick tied to the cord 17 inches from the knot. PMPT; P. 612
[Lee] questioned why a six-year-old girl, who could easily have been manually strangled, had been
choked with a garrote. Thomas; P. 147
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The autopsy report and photographs tell us that Jonbenet was alive when the garrote was put upon her and she was alive when it was tightened and it was the tightening of it that killed her (associated with...). Every account, every report, every opinion (those of a few forum posters notwithstanding) supports the claim – the fact - that Jonbenet was asphyxiated to death by the ligature positioned, and embedded, as we see it in the autopsy photos.
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Hair entwined in the cord wrapped around the handle strongly suggests that the cord was wrapped around the handle close enough to the victim so as to catch her hair during the process.
The act of pulling the handle to tighten the garrote would also be an act of pulling the victim’s hair.
Thomas mentions (p. 41) that Meyer had to cut the hair entwined in the knot around the neck, but he does not mention the hair entwined in the cord wrapped around the handle. Kolar also mentions (p. 55) that Meyer had to cut the hair entwined in the knot around the neck, but he does not mention the hair entwined in the cord wrapped around the handle.
The hair entwined in the hair wrapped around the handle was pulled out of the victim’s head when the handle was pulled by her killer. See Kolar; start listening at 94:30 mark, here:
http://tinyurl.com/kptc2co “...there was a number of hair that had been pulled, hairs that had been pulled from, um, from her head and neck area if I recall correctly...” “...my impression and my recollection is that the uh the hair that was connected ... was not connected to her scalp or hair or her neck at that juncture...”
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