Anna - I think the initial injury was done at the Stine's house and it was BR and Doug playing with a hockey puck and stick or hit the puck with a golf club. There was a lot made in the book by the R's about JR not wanting BR to play hockey, even forbidding him to own a hockey stick but Doug gave him a used puck which JR let him keep. There is no reason for any discussion about freaking hockey except that it had something to do with the death of JBR.
I have always thought that JBR was injured at the Stines which is why JR 'can't remember' who went into the house, that she was carried by PR to the car and rode home on PR'slap. PR felt the indentation of the skull on the way home and didn't say anything to JR because he was so adamant about not allowing BR to play with hockey sticks and she let him do it. JBR slipped into unconsciousness which is why it was said that she was 'asleep' and carried upstairs. PR knew that something was wrong, called Nedra and Nedra said it was just swelling, to give her some pineapple and tea, diuretics, to reduce the swelling and to check on her every hour. PR was able to rouse JBR long enough to give her the 'diuretics' and put her back in bed. She was trying to tell Nedra that it was a dent, but Nedra brushed it off. I absolutely believe that Nedra was called that night and helped with the RN as well. It is pure Nedra.
THIS is the reason that PR didn't want to go to the Fernie's house.
When PR couldn't rouse JBR again she woke JR in a panic and told him what happened. They knew JBR was not going to recover from that blow and her breathing was becoming more and more labored and shallow. If they called 911, the paramedics would take the child to the hospital where they would have to explain the injury to the head and eventually to the vagina. If doctors at the hospital were able to save JBR, she would likely remain in a vegetative state for what the Rs imagined would be years. She was dying and PR decided that she should die on Christmas day, as the ultimate gift from her to Jesus - not on Dec. 26th. She fashioned the cord, dragged JBR into the wine cellar with the cords, pulled them tightly so JBR could no longer breathe, wrapped her body and latched the door behind her. JR watched, in complete panic but he was having nothing to do with it at all. He did however, mention the fact that the previous sexual assault would be noticed, and therefore the sexual assault was staged by PR to cover the past assaults. As for the sexual assault, Nedra would have told PR, 'she can never be Miss America now because she may announce that she was a victim of sexual assault and it will embarrass the whole family!" It is so Nedra.
"She was a little bit molested."
Image was everything. Keeping up appearances was of vital importance to the Paugh's and JR was right up there in that image saving mode. They didn't want to have BR labeled as 'the kid who molested and killed his sister'.
Doug Stine was going to spend the night with Burke but didn't. PR said it was because they were headed out early to MI, but it was the Stines that left early on the 26th and despite being the last people to see JBR alive besides immediate family members, they weren't called to the R home. A lawyer and a pediatrician were called along with the Whites and the Fernies.
It is my opinion that JR asked the lawyer what the age of accountability was in CO when he arrived, found out that being still only nine years of age, BR was safe and that the pediatrician was there to combat any accusations of past sexual assaults which may arise when JBR's body was found. JR never thought it would take so long to find her and when LA said 'go search the house from TOP to BOTTOM' for anything out of place; he ran straight to the BOTTOM, the basement, with FW is hot pursuit. The body was found within minutes, after a brief train room visit where JR pointed out the broken window to FW.
The RN was done to explain why JBR was nowhere to be seen, to invent a story to explain why she would be found dead, to mis-direct the investigators and to buy time for all the friends to arrive and destroy the crime scene. The Rs wanted witnesses to their horror, witnesses who would never believe that the Rs had anything to do with the crime.
Anna - I think the initial injury was done at the Stine's house and it was BR and Doug playing with a hockey puck and stick or hit the puck with a golf club. There was a lot made in the book by the R's about JR not wanting BR to play hockey, even forbidding him to own a hockey stick but Doug gave him a used puck which JR let him keep. There is no reason for any discussion about freaking hockey except that it had something to do with the death of JBR.
I have always thought that JBR was injured at the Stines which is why JR 'can't remember' who went into the house, that she was carried by PR to the car and rode home on PR'slap. PR felt the indentation of the skull on the way home and didn't say anything to JR because he was so adamant about not allowing BR to play with hockey sticks and she let him do it. JBR slipped into unconsciousness which is why it was said that she was 'asleep' and carried upstairs. PR knew that something was wrong, called Nedra and Nedra said it was just swelling, to give her some pineapple and tea, diuretics, to reduce the swelling and to check on her every hour. PR was able to rouse JBR long enough to give her the 'diuretics' and put her back in bed. She was trying to tell Nedra that it was a dent, but Nedra brushed it off. I absolutely believe that Nedra was called that night and helped with the RN as well. It is pure Nedra.
THIS is the reason that PR didn't want to go to the Fernie's house.
When PR couldn't rouse JBR again she woke JR in a panic and told him what happened. They knew JBR was not going to recover from that blow and her breathing was becoming more and more labored and shallow. If they called 911, the paramedics would take the child to the hospital where they would have to explain the injury to the head and eventually to the vagina. If doctors at the hospital were able to save JBR, she would likely remain in a vegetative state for what the Rs imagined would be years. She was dying and PR decided that she should die on Christmas day, as the ultimate gift from her to Jesus - not on Dec. 26th. She fashioned the cord, dragged JBR into the wine cellar with the cords, pulled them tightly so JBR could no longer breathe, wrapped her body and latched the door behind her. JR watched, in complete panic but he was having nothing to do with it at all. He did however, mention the fact that the previous sexual assault would be noticed, and therefore the sexual assault was staged by PR to cover the past assaults. As for the sexual assault, Nedra would have told PR, 'she can never be Miss America now because she may announce that she was a victim of sexual assault and it will embarrass the whole family!" It is so Nedra.
"She was a little bit molested."
Image was everything. Keeping up appearances was of vital importance to the Paugh's and JR was right up there in that image saving mode. They didn't want to have BR labeled as 'the kid who molested and killed his sister'.
Doug Stine was going to spend the night with Burke but didn't. PR said it was because they were headed out early to MI, but it was the Stines that left early on the 26th and despite being the last people to see JBR alive besides immediate family members, they weren't called to the R home. A lawyer and a pediatrician were called along with the Whites and the Fernies.
It is my opinion that JR asked the lawyer what the age of accountability was in CO when he arrived, found out that being still only nine years of age, BR was safe and that the pediatrician was there to combat any accusations of past sexual assaults which may arise when JBR's body was found. JR never thought it would take so long to find her and when LA said 'go search the house from TOP to BOTTOM' for anything out of place; he ran straight to the BOTTOM, the basement, with FW is hot pursuit. The body was found within minutes, after a brief train room visit where JR pointed out the broken window to FW.
The RN was done to explain why JBR was nowhere to be seen, to invent a story to explain why she would be found dead, to mis-direct the investigators and to buy time for all the friends to arrive and destroy the crime scene. The Rs wanted witnesses to their horror, witnesses who would never believe that the Rs had anything to do with the crime.
This is a well-reasoned sequence of events, however wasn't the blow believed to be of such force that it rendered JB unconscious almost immediately? I don't think she'd have remained awake at the Stines, lapsed into unconsciousness in the car, and then briefly come to long enough to have a piece of pineapple to "reduce swelling".
Seems like a couple of yrs ago, the youtube video containing part of a SS interview on a tv program, was taken down. It was part of a program like dateline or something. I simply can't find it these days.
It is the tv interview where she basically says that the family seemed totally normal and in fact bubbly. Which surprised me b/c the R's version is that only PR went to their door, and there was no mention of any of the S's coming out to the car to chat.
I sure wish someone could find that video. It was the only public interview I had ever seen
[FONT=&]17 we had a gift for the Fernies and we debated[/FONT]
[FONT=&]18 whether we should go over there. But that's[/FONT]
[FONT=&]19 probably 15 minutes away and we wanted to get home[/FONT]
[FONT=&]20 and to bed. And we didn't know what time we would[/FONT]
[FONT=&]21 get back. So we left the Stines and drove home.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]22 LOU SMIT: So your concern then was mainly you[/FONT]
[FONT=&]23 didn't want to spend that extra time (INAUDIBLE).[/FONT]
[FONT=&]24 Why?[/FONT]
[FONT=&]25 JOHN RAMSEY: Well, it was 15 minutes over[/FONT]
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[FONT=&] 1 there and both the kids might want to go in and it[/FONT]
[FONT=&] 2 would have been half an hour, 45 minutes before we[/FONT]
[FONT=&] 3 went home. And we had to get up early next[/FONT]
[FONT=&] 4 morning. They were tired. They had been up all[/FONT]
[FONT=&] 5 day. So we said, well, we'd do that when we got[/FONT]
[FONT=&] 6 back.
http://www.acandyrose.com/1998BPD-John-Interview-Complete.htm
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Tortoise,
If you check the sources you find JR working hard to insert himself into the case, e.g. samsonite suitcase, broken window, chair in front of the door, i.e. JR's interaction is not mandated.
The staging is not required if all that is needed is evidence of an intruder kiling JonBenet in her bed.
rsbm
My favourite is the extraordinary effort JR went to to make sure they knew he opened the refrigerator.
She wasn't dead in bed though?
Oh you think he was really checking to see if she was in there?Those door latches can sometimes take a lot of force to operate. That would have been a nightmare for me if I had small children. I know it doesn't make sense when you have a ransom note in your hand, but I would have worried about it all the time too.
rsbm
My favourite is the extraordinary effort JR went to to make sure they knew he opened the refrigerator.
She wasn't dead in bed though?