If they said nothing more then the flashlight may well be theirs, and belong in their home, it would have covered any forensic evidence would it have not? There really wasn't any reason they had to both have but the flashlight in their hands that night in order to account for anything left behind.That is why neither of them speaking up now, 20 years after the fact actually makes much sense.
Why? If it was PDI, why not at this point, let the world know the facts and be done with it? Why go on facing a lifetime of being made to feel like a suspect when you are not to blame? I can't think John would want that for his children, especially Burke.
I imagine they did know what was coming from the CBS show but having watched the Dr. Phil episode, I am not sure what they were hoping to achieve. It certainly didn't do them any favors by airing that show and if anything, it damaged them in many ways.
Jolamom,
If they said nothing more then the flashlight may well be theirs, and belong in their home, it would have covered any forensic evidence would it have not? There really wasn't any reason they had to both have but the flashlight in their hands that night in order to account for anything left behind.That is why neither of them speaking up now, 20 years after the fact actually makes much sense.
It only makes sense if they know something important that we do not. JR says, as per Dr Phil, he took the flashlight upstairs, he is not making any claims about bringing it back downstairs.
Dr Phil Show, excerpt
Phil: I think your dad had said he used the flashlight that night to put you to bed that night and then you snuck downstairs to play.
Burke: yeah. I had some toy I wanted to put together. I remember being downstairs after everyone was kind of in bed...
1. Burke's bedroom was on the second floor. Being downstairs can just as well apply to the first floor where his brand new toy would more likely be.
2. He said "I had some toy I wanted to put together", not "I had some toy I wanted to play with."
BR is claiming to have returned back downstairs once everyone was in bed. Presumably he used the flashlight to find his way down to and about the basement?
Neither of the above events might have happened simply because JR and BR do not want you to know exactly what the trajectory of the flashlight was?
They recognize that the flashlight, probably for forensic reasons, requires an explanation, so JR supplies one.
The flashlight might have started out in PR's hands and ended up being used to whack JonBenet. As per JR's story, BR could have snuck along to JonBenet's bedroom, knowing full well he needed it as JonBenet's bedroom light had been replaced? Along with the Bloomimgdale's underwear Patsy claimed she also purchased JonBenet a nice new bedside lamp?
So that is new lamp, new ceiling fan, so assailant knows flashlight is required?
July 21, 1998 Linda Wilcox (former Ramsey housekeeper) interview on Peter Boyles Show
Linda Wilcox: "Gut feeling more than anything. But even now, more than then, I would (garbled) on everything I have that a stranger did not kill JonBenet. The lay of the house doesn't... it would be very difficult. Possibly, there are people who are professional. But then they would have done a professional job. Lots of little things contribute to my belief. Someone who didn't know that house, really well, couldn't have done what they done (sic) without being noticed. It's not possible. It is physically impossible. You had to know little things. Like for example, you walk in the room and hit the switch, the light doesn't come on. See, cause when the room was redone, they put in a ceiling fan, one of the metal ones, without a light kit on it. The only light in her room was the lamp between the two beds. You have to physically walk over and turn it on. It isn't run by the switch. The switch was meant to run the overhead ceiling light which was removed to install the ceiling fan."
(0250-15) THOMAS HANEY: Okay. How about number 4 here, this is with that lamp on. And would that be normal, to leave that on? PATSY RAMSEY: No. Not when she is sleeping. THOMAS HANEY: Do you recall that lamp being on in the morning of the 26th? PATSY RAMSEY: No. I don't remember. TRIP DeMUTH: How do you turn that lamp on? PATSY RAMSEY: With, you know -- TRIP DeMUTH: You have to go to the lamp to turn it on? PATSY RAMSEY: Yes. TRIP DeMUTH: Not a light switch on the wall? PATSY RAMSEY: I don't think so. I can't remember. That was a fairly new lamp, I had just gotten that in New York, in December. I can't remember (INAUDIBLE).
I imagine they did know what was coming from the CBS show but having watched the Dr. Phil episode, I am not sure what they were hoping to achieve. It certainly didn't do them any favors by airing that show and if anything, it damaged them in many ways.
They were attempting to limit any damage to BR's reputation from the CBS show by fronting up BR with a nicee script, except BR misspoke talking about JonBenet
flaunting herself in public, etc. It just blew up in JR's face, despite BR getting media coaching, his nervous fidgeting, inane cheshire cat smiles did him no favors, so much so, Dr Phil had to run an extra salvage episode to tell everyone that BR was really a nice, sweet but misunderstood guy.
The flashlight was likely used in JonBenet's bedroom and it probably arrived there via either Patsy or Burke?
This scenario is what the R's are attempting to hide by offering alternatives to the flashlight's journey that night?
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