I hope it's okay to double post but this is a different post entirely from my last one.
I finally feel closure in this case, and I am left with an immense feeling of sadness for John, Patsy, and Burke.
I always looked at the accusations against Burke and railed against them. He couldn't have written that note or staged that scene, not in my mind. So I looked at John and Patsy with hate and non-understanding of how and why. The explanations given in the show for why it wasn't someone from the outside were pretty glaring to me, so it had to be someone in that house. But what an awful picture it left for us of hateful, murderous parents! Now I feel all that erased by seeing what may have really happened, and that it was just a few hours of stupid, stupid, desperate acts by devastated, confused, and frightened parents who loved both their children.
Assuming that show uncovered 99% of the actual events of that night....I don't believe Burke knows what happened. I think they covered it up from him as well as trying to cover it up for the outside world. I don't think he was culpable or intending to murder. He appears to maybe have some kind of Asperger's syndrome and lack emotional connections to his sister and parents (judging from the interviews aged 9 and 11 which were shown on the show). It would be like a 2-year old lashing out with something in their hand when someone's annoyed them....there's no intent to kill, they don't know their own strength and can't accurately gauge the consequences of this thoughtless action.
I think Patsy came down and saw JonBenet laying there, lifeless, and Burke was sent to bed. I think he got up in the morning and found out she was dead and part of him wondered if what he'd done was the cause of death...hence asking "where did you find her?" Because if she was found in the place he'd last seen her laying 'asleep' or 'knocked out' then maybe he'd hurt her. But if she was in another place, maybe it wasn't him! Then for 20 years he's been fed this pedophile intruder story by his parents. He knows his parents couldn't have murdered his sister in that way, so he has 20 years of being convinced someone broke in, and may no longer have any memory of anything else from that night.
I wish Patsy could have felt the closure I now feel in this case. I wish John and Burke could have that closure, too. I wish they'd never had all this media intrusion in their lives (which they didn't help with when they seemed to want to go on TV to talk about it).
If that show got it far wrong, I would be very surprised. Everything seems to meet Occam's razor....the simplest explanation is usually the truth.
If it was what happened that night, then I think instead of Burke suing CBS, John should come clean to his son, go to his lawyer and make a plea deal for his part in it in order to protect his son from the ordeal of a trial that's going to be like a murder trial on a man who is not really responsible for what happened that night. Then the two of them would be able to have counselling and maybe finally to heal.
I finally feel closure in this case, and I am left with an immense feeling of sadness for John, Patsy, and Burke.
I always looked at the accusations against Burke and railed against them. He couldn't have written that note or staged that scene, not in my mind. So I looked at John and Patsy with hate and non-understanding of how and why. The explanations given in the show for why it wasn't someone from the outside were pretty glaring to me, so it had to be someone in that house. But what an awful picture it left for us of hateful, murderous parents! Now I feel all that erased by seeing what may have really happened, and that it was just a few hours of stupid, stupid, desperate acts by devastated, confused, and frightened parents who loved both their children.
Assuming that show uncovered 99% of the actual events of that night....I don't believe Burke knows what happened. I think they covered it up from him as well as trying to cover it up for the outside world. I don't think he was culpable or intending to murder. He appears to maybe have some kind of Asperger's syndrome and lack emotional connections to his sister and parents (judging from the interviews aged 9 and 11 which were shown on the show). It would be like a 2-year old lashing out with something in their hand when someone's annoyed them....there's no intent to kill, they don't know their own strength and can't accurately gauge the consequences of this thoughtless action.
I think Patsy came down and saw JonBenet laying there, lifeless, and Burke was sent to bed. I think he got up in the morning and found out she was dead and part of him wondered if what he'd done was the cause of death...hence asking "where did you find her?" Because if she was found in the place he'd last seen her laying 'asleep' or 'knocked out' then maybe he'd hurt her. But if she was in another place, maybe it wasn't him! Then for 20 years he's been fed this pedophile intruder story by his parents. He knows his parents couldn't have murdered his sister in that way, so he has 20 years of being convinced someone broke in, and may no longer have any memory of anything else from that night.
I wish Patsy could have felt the closure I now feel in this case. I wish John and Burke could have that closure, too. I wish they'd never had all this media intrusion in their lives (which they didn't help with when they seemed to want to go on TV to talk about it).
If that show got it far wrong, I would be very surprised. Everything seems to meet Occam's razor....the simplest explanation is usually the truth.
If it was what happened that night, then I think instead of Burke suing CBS, John should come clean to his son, go to his lawyer and make a plea deal for his part in it in order to protect his son from the ordeal of a trial that's going to be like a murder trial on a man who is not really responsible for what happened that night. Then the two of them would be able to have counselling and maybe finally to heal.