Imo, another (better) question that should be asked is why JR would choose to include kidnapping if he was going to stage a coverup, when he knew certain protocols were called for by his job in case of a kidnapping, protocols that he didn't want to follow, as evidenced by the fact that he didn't follow them. Seems like kidnapping would be something he would rule out for this reason, when he was deciding on how to stage the coverup. imo.Why didn’t JR follow the protocol? That is definitely the $64k question.
But back to the topic of this particular forum thread, re: the RN... I've never understood why the Sharpie keeps being used as evidence for PDI, as if there was only one Sharpie ever made in the world. Even only one black fine-tip Sharpie or whatever it was. Pretty sure those are pretty common, imo. And as far as i know, forensics can't tell us whether it was that same pen found in the house that was used. Just that same type of (common) pen (and even that seems to allow room for other possible pens that look the same on the page.) And the fact that Patsy's Sharpie pen was found to be in its usual place? Maybe that's because it was not the pen that was used to write the note! That can be evidence of that, maybe more so than evidence that it was. I'm not saying I believe either way, just that imo, there is room for reasonable doubt on that point.