(1) if you are one that believes that the boy has some involvement here, could you please specifically state the conduct at issue
(2) if the head injury, the autopsy report provides for an 8.5 inch part linear, part comminuted fracture of the skull, with an associated underlying brain contusion 8 inches in length. Was the boy strong enough to inflict such a wound?
(3) if you posit only the head injury being caused by the boy, then why the need for any coverup? Remember here that is a closed head injury and even the medical examiner was not aware of the nature of the head injury until the skin was opened, and since the examiner also opined that head injury was first and manual strangulation after, then she's alive, they can't discern just how bad the injury is, other than she is likely unconscious, and so he got angry and hit her, and that's perhaps a short CPS intervention and that's about it, so, again, why some need for some coverup for the boy?
(4) by the way, Patsy did nothing here, at least initially, since she doesn't make the 911 when she did if she's involved, also means, by the way, that she didn't write the note.
(5) the Ramseys gave their house key to everyone and her/his cousin, ten times removed, and so if we're going with staged scenes, someone entered when they weren't home, then did the evil thing, then staged the scene, and then walked out the front door. And no biggie, since Keppel remarks in his The Riverman, everyone is always running around asking, did you see anything unusual, when the question instead ought to be, what did you see that was usual? Hiding in plain sight and all that. And lord knows what the scheme is in Boulder, but may be possible to have the house plan on file somewhere, from when the place was originally built, and for permitting purposes, and maybe perhaps even in connection with the real property tax assessment. And don't recall where I read it, but they were apparently part of some open house Christmas tour program two year or so prior. And so adding that all up, you essentially have to investigate everyone who might have ever had access to a door key. I mean, I'm not a big fan of the whole beauty pageant thing for the young 'uns, but she was famous among a certain crowd, and so if you wanted, you work for someone who had access, borrow the key when no one's looking, and viola, you've now got access. And re the not apparently vicious nature of any sexual assault itself, i.e., the genital injury, which could go assault or not, but if so, picture someone like Chikatilo sans the mutilation.
(6) lastly, when some ask for a fresh look, well, if they find anything, rather likely because some were blinded on that long dark road called Confirmation Bias Drive.
(7) almost forgot, but back to the matter of injury, while I have substantial doubt as the boy's ability to inflict the head injury, let me say that the manual strangulation would have been easier, except for the means used, i.e., from whence would he have come up with that idea?
(8) for another almost forgot, owing to the dollar amount demanded, some have said that if intruder(s), had to be someone who was familiar with Mr. Ramsey and wanted to cause him a great deal of pain (as if the murder of his one child wouldn't have been enough pain and never mind the note), but to me an equally plausible argument would be, first make it look like someone in the family did it, and if not, then someone who knew Mr. Ramsay and wanted to cause him pain.
(9) and now for third time's the charm, you'd have to have a Mt. Everest of evidence to convince me that Patsy did anything wrong. First, there is the 911 call, which you simply don't make when she did, if coverup is the plan, and second, some have said that sometimes the one parent knows and allows it, and that's true, but far more often than not is someone rather dependent on the other and the other usually doesn't have gazillions of dollars for you take in the divorce case. Let me put that this way, he was every gold-digger's dream. So no reason to not bail out when the need for the same arose.