Venom;
Ah yes, but don't forget this intruder decided the perfect day to break in would be Christmas. Now, we have all just experienced another Christmas. Tell me, do you all follow your normal routines on Christmas Day???
This is an element of the crime that has always bothered me. I realize it is not evidence that would hold up in a court of law, but in the court of common sense?
I am a total creature of habit. Someone could watch me for a few weeks and get a pretty good idea of what I do most days of the week and when I do it.
Christmas? All bets are off. Additionally, how does an intruder even know the Ramseys are in town on 12/25? Or if they are in town, how does he know that they don't have a housefull of houseguests? How would they know that Jonbenet is not, in fact, sharing her own bedroom with a couple of cousins as I often did as a child during the holidays. Yes, it's a big house, but how does an intruder know it isn't a big family?
My point is, if you can buy the ludicruos idea that someone is going to break in, without leaving a bit of evidence of a break in of course, and wait around for the Ramseys to come home and go to bed and then takes the time to write the War and Peace of ransom notes, on their paper with their sharpie (because evidently the very clever, highly organized criminal forgot his own paper!!!) then how do you buy that this genius pulls it off on Christmas day when virtually no ones routine is the same as it is any other time.
Oh, and BTW did Uncle Joe or cousin Sam make it to Christmas dinner? Because I can tell you for certain exactly what family members were with us on Christmas and which ones weren't. I cannot tell with the same certainty if cousin Sam was at that dinner we had at my sister's one Saturday in November. Yet this genius sits in the Ramsey house on the one day of the year where it is almost certain his family or friends will know he wasn't with them.