The context of the conversation was whether or not the ransom note was needed to steer police away from the family.
That's what I'm SAYING!
The crime scene evidence is/was doing a fine job of that.
PLEASE.
Mary Lacy and Lin Wood were doing a fine job of that, you mean. And even if what you say were true, it's only because of luck.
A guilty JR and PR would know ahead of time that 1500 handwritten letters claiming to be foreign while using good English composition would be studied by the FBI and would become the biggest threat of linking them to the crime.
You say that very confidently, HOTYH. I'm interested in knowing just HOW they would "know" that "ahead of time." I'm deadly serious: please enlighten me as to how two socialites who are not master criminals and had only a tertiary interest in true crime (at BEST) are suddenly supposed to have become instant experts in law enforcement proceedures, methods and tactics. THEN, explain to me how those same socialites were supposed to be thinking that far ahead under the circumstances.
While you're busy doing that, allow me to take a cue from Steely and list a few possibilities that might fit with what you say:
1) One or both Rs were arrogant enough to think that they could fool the cops. They wouldn't be the first! Heck, PR was on a jury about a year before the murder and thought she knew better than the prosecutor and defense counsel. She wasn't afraid to tell them so, either.
2) I've said it a million times: if they were thinking that far ahead, they knew they didn't have to fool the cops or the FBI; they have to fool
one person out of twelve. And as the OJ Simpson trial showed, that's not hard to do.
There's a sucker born every minute, especially if you have million-dollar lawyers and goons who threaten witnesses.
3) Perhaps one of the Rs was counting on that very thing and was setting the other up to take a fall.
4) As you--HOTYH--suggested once, perhaps PR lost her grip on reality and JR went along because he didn't know what she was going to do.
Just a few considerations.
RDI needs to justify the ransom note in PR/JR's eyes, but it cant be done.
What do you mean, "it can't be done?"
I've BEEN doing it!