David, recall back to your first lesson.
I HAVE!
"Always keep an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out."
If intruder had samples of PR's handwriting, it would be easy for him to deliberately disguise his handwriting in a way to superficially look like PR's.
Yeah, right. No one else could do THAT well.
And there handwriting experts who point out significant differences between PR and RN.
Yeah, the ones JR hired! And even they couldn't say she didn't.
Forensic linguist Gerald McMemanin is well aware of handwriting experts who claim a match between PR and RN,
First I knew of that. Don't keep me in suspense.
but as a linguist his expertise is to report linguistic data and his impartial evaluation of it.
Tempted as I might be to consign that to the category of "cop-out," I can understand it. He's not a handwriting analyst, and he doesn't claim that he is or that he knows better than they do. He just does what he does. I respect that. I really do.
Master Dave I'm disappointed. RDI spin team holds you in such high esteem. Surely you can do better!
Just wait until I get warmed up!
"Barbara Kostanick was the mother of a playmate of JBR's. She asserted: "The day before Christmas, JonBenet was at our house playing with Megan. The kids were talking about Santa, getting all excited. I asked JonBenet if she had visited Santa Claus yet. She said, Oh, Santa was at our Christmas party the other night. Megan had seen Santa at the Pearl Street Mall, so we talked about that. Then JonBenet said, Santa Claus promised that he would make a secret visit after Christmas. I thought she was confused. Christmas is tonight, I told her. And Santa will be coming tonight. No, no JonBenet insisted. He said this would be after Christmas. And its a secret (Schiller 1999:38-39).
"Santa" and JB had a sexual relationship. This explains erosion with hymen, and primary transfer of his DNA in JB's vagina. Santa was worried that JB might expose him as a pedophile, and decides to kill JB. Santa had a pre-arranged meeting w/JB. JB keeps door unlocked to meet Santa. Santa has entered house before, and possibly took the yellow pad with him (which may had samples of PR's handwriting)
No forced entry as in Fugitive. Santa wore gloves. No fingerprints as in Fugitive.
JB lets Santa in. Santa brings with him the yellow pad w/RN, consciously attempting to imitate PR's handwriting. He provides JB w/pineapple she eats it. He decides to kill her and put her in the basement. He thinks some incriminating evidence like hair and fiber might be in JB's body or clothes so does some re-dressing.
He has seen the Fugitive. He knows if he keeps JB"s body in the house, the parents will be blamed just as Dr. Richard Kimball was. He stages the scene to include a false point of entry (basement window) false motive of kidnapping, to cover his own real motive.
I MIGHT be able to believe parts of that, but overall it's a flop.
A common RDI spin is that the R's over-staged the crime scene, and that if a hypothetical intruder wanted money why did he leave the body behind? Therefore the R's must have staged the RN as the only possible explanation to create a fiction of kidnapper scenario.
Works for me. And it's not particularly an RDI "spin."
He may have heard the $118k bonus from JB.
Why would she remember that, though?
No need to speculate whether the R's knew how to tie such a knot. They don't.
You've been drinking LS's Kool-Aid again. The knot expert said that ANYONE could have tied that knot.
He realized if he staged the crime scene, profilers would be mislead into thinking the parents did the staging. He carried off w/broken paintbrush, nylon rope, items that are source of brown fiber and beaver hair, wipes flashlight of blood (which also cleans it of fingerprints).
He left behind the RN, which was really full of Freudian slips that he wanted to kill JB to silence her, some possibly incriminating items and left out the door. As with the Danielle Van Dam murder, no forced entry means no clear evidence of an intruder of the kind that is usually present. He left behind the body as he has no need for it now JB is silence, and knowing the parents will take the fall.
NOBODY's that good, voynich. Not even me.
The DNA and forensic linguistics are the most compelling evidence of this. What RDI spin calls staging, such as head blow and strangulation, is actually the handiwork of Santa. The "degraded" DNA found in JB's fingernails may be result of previous weeks contact w/Santa. Santa hoped to cover up his previous sexual contact by staging a sexual assault w/paintbrush, not knowing that her hymen was already eroded.
The intruder staged the crime scene and motive to mislead the RDIST into thinking the parents staged the crime scene into believing the intruder did it. Santa may have had some feelings for JB and hence a proprietary interest in JB. He felt he needed to silence her or risk ruin to his professional reputation.
This is a case of an intruder staging the crime scene to frame the parents, not the other way around. He opened the basement window to mislead LE into thinking he entered that way. He knew he did not enter that way but through JB, and he knew from studying profiling that profilers would see this as the R's staging the crime scene. He does not want to be found. He does not want to be caught. He does not want his reputation ruined.
You tell a good story, voynich. But this is one of those times when I have to appropriate lines from HOTYH and remind you that a story is all it is, at present.
The reason forensic linguistics doesn't match is that the intruder did not know how to disguise that, only knew how to imitate PR's writing. He thought the R's were from the South, and used Southern words like gentlemen.
I could believe that, if not for McM using Colorado as his basis.
The DNA in Vagina was the result of a PRIMARY transfer of his finger in her vagina, and his DNA on the sides of the long johns due to PRIMARY transfer from his shedding skin cells to those locations.
You slipped up there, friend. There was NO DNA in JB's vagina or anywhere else on her actual body. That's pretty much the whole problem with the DNA in general.
Unsourced brown fibers were from a teddy bear he gave as a gift to JB.
Did he take it with him?
Santa Claus promised that he would make a secret visit after Christmas. I thought she was confused. Christmas is tonight, I told her. And Santa will be coming tonight. No, no JonBenet insisted. He said this would be after Christmas. And its a secret Pretty amazing coincidence wouldn't you say?
Yeah, IF it happened.
RDI spin team, tell me something, what do you think JB had in mind when she said Santa Claus promised that he would make a secret visit after Christmas. I thought she was confused. Christmas is tonight, I told her. And Santa will be coming tonight. No, no JonBenet insisted. He said this would be after Christmas. And its a secret
Provided it actually happened, when you're talking about a six-year-old and Santa Claus, it could have been anything.
and is it coincidence she was murdered then?
I'm of the mind that this could have happened on any day. That's one area where HOTYH and I agree fully.
To address the RDIST beloved CASKU:
It's obvious just how devastating their finding is to IDI to have such a serious mad-on for them!