I think (and it's just my opinion) that LA telling him and FW to go search the house again from top to bottom threw him for a loop, in all honesty. By that time, the basement, as well as the house as a whole, had already been searched. JR, in my view, really wasn't expecting that -- and on top of that, he really wasn't expecting FW to search with him. This threw a wrench in his plan, so to speak. I really do think that he panicked -- FW was right there; and it would have looked incredibly suspicious if JR purposefully avoided the wine cellar or told FW to not search there himself, so he panicked because he felt like he was trapped and decided to "find" the body, because he felt as if he had no other choice with FW down there.
I believe that the plan for R's all along, was to dispose of the body. They didn't want the body found. The staging was to cover their tracks, if it ever was found -- either in the house that day, or afterwards (i.e. in an unmarked grave somewhere in a peaceful secluded spot in Colorado or Georgia, etc.).
This has been discussed ad nauseum, but I still can't help but wonder if the body could have been somewhere else before it was moved to the wine cellar.
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I reckon she could have been in the crawl space or simply lying beneath or inside something unnoticed?
Best way to view the scenario is if the case is PDI then JR has nothing to worry about, similarly for BDI. So all JR has to do is play safe and stay out of the way.
Except JR has a Plan e.g. move BR out of the house then fly interstate ASAP, which means leaving JonBenet and possibly BR behind, i.e. there is no guarantee BR would be allowed to meet up with an escapist flight?
The R's thought JonBenet might be discovered quickly, hence the early door legal representation, when she was not Plan B was enacted e.g. move BR, and re-arrange the flight plans.
When this was thwarted JR must have reconsidered the forensic status of JonBenet, this might have prompted him to move and re-stage JonBenet in the wine-cellar not realizing FW had already looked in there?
I say re-stage because if you are Patsy ligature strangling JonBenet, why bother with a blanket after tightening and knotting the ligature?
JR could have used the blanket to insulate himself from JonBenet, i.e. that days clothing, as he moved her into the wine-cellar, but when he
Found Her he decides to reverse the order of events and unwrap JonBenet thereby giving himself a forensic Get Out Of Jail Card?
JR could have said to FW I've found JonBenet call the police, etc and not touched her. He did not not need to be told she was dead when he carried her upstairs, this could also have been checked in the basement.
JR just seems to continually inject himself into the case in an attempt to create diversions, why so if the case is PDI?
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