True. Actually the various permutations, given the public criminal horrors we've learned of - within families, since then...makes the mind boggle. I think that back then, your average LEO or investigator or DA could not imagine certain bizarre patterns (such as the entire family being involved in some way, or some subset of the family, etc). And so the investigation was completely botched. It was about 2 years ago I got re-obsessed by the case, can't remember why, but I ended up hanging out on Websleuths, and then joining.
It wouldn't be the first time there was some kind of multi-level dysfunction in a family system.
And then...there are days when it's only a few small details that keep me from thinking a stranger had to be involved. And one big detail: that ransom note.
10ofRods,
Yes, I've been on a similar journey as all the revelations of MeToo, Harvey Weinstein, Sports Associations, The Catholic Church, various Federal and Government bodies that all deliberately sweep abuse under the carpet or farm it out to medics or insurance companies to deal with it using Non-Discloure Agreements, etc.
There was no Stranger or Intruder involved as they would have left forensic evidence behind and to date none has been found that links to anyone outside the Ramsey household.
Think about, all these years later after inumerable lab tests, interviews, rerun forensic procedures, yet nothing relating to an intruder has been found!
There are clues which suggest a family affair, the biggest of which is that of JonBenet being in therapy prior to her death.
I reckon this is the reason why The Ramsey's requested an Island of Privacy around their medical records.
Also just because the children's doctor claimed not to have visually examined JonBenet does not mean no other doctor did and paid for by Dr. Beuf which he then subsumed in medical invoices to the Ramsey's!
It appears the Grand Jury were given some insight on this matter as they charged both parents with child negelect, i.e. allowing JonBenet to be abused by a lack of due care and regard.
So it appears stuff was covered up, much of the evidence does support Familial Abuse, but there is no smoking gun, as much of the case evidence has been deliberately lost, destroyed or kept sealed away in some depositary somewhere?
This was my original theory but I chose not to post it in detail as the possibility of litigation was prominent and I had seen how other members had been smeared, tracked online and requested to desist posting, e.g. BluCrab.
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