BOBON,
Interesting post. I reckon BR is somewhere on the spectrum. He is likely to have had some form of medical intervention and is probably currently prescribed medication?
Kolar patently thinks BR has some kind of mental issues, which underpins his theory.
Two aspects everyone should consider and take seriously is the possibility of BR's alleged sexual behavior and a fecal fetish, added to the desire to kill his sister?
Personally I reckon we have the interplay of parental neglect and BR's spectrum issues, all resulting in JonBenet's death?
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Good points, UKguy.
I wish we'd have more information about Burke to get a better picture.
In the case he is on the Aspergers Spectrum / Autism, there isn't much one can
do apart from intensive cognitive behavioral therapy where they learn to read social cues and social skills and / or combined with meds, most likely something for anxiety (SSRIs) and mood stabilizers or beta blockers so they are less irritable.
Seeing Burke on Dr Phil, I'd say he is not heavily medicated, he doesn't seem slow
or numb, he clearly understands the questions and there is no weight gain (often assossiated with anti depression meds) his anxiety still shows, he just has no grasp of how to make his facial responses match with his voice and also the tone of voice often doesn't fit the given subject. I wonder if he received any CBT. I feel as if it got worse with age or maybe he was just more anxious now as an adult, being part of a tv show which was televised to the whole world, where he had to make sure not to mess up .. and you can see it in his eyes
that he was super anxious about it - understandably so.
It's just such a mystery to me..In case of the sexual abuse / murder of his sister, people who are on the Aspergers or suffer from Autism can kill, often due to revenge, for example the case of Adam Lanza. But both the sexual interest and the murder also makes me think of RAD. Here is a documtentary of a child who had a severe case of Rad (trigger warning due
to extreme content [video=youtube;ME2wmFunCjU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME2wmFunCjU[/video]) but as you can see, it is commen for the disease that children who have it have to remorse, no bond nor do they care about others, they know that if they hurt someone it will evoke an extreme reaction and sometimes a negative reaction (from parent, sibling etc)
is better than no reaction at all in their mind. Wasn't there some sort of mystery surrounding on of their pets going missing? I'd say if Burke indeed hurt animals as a child, RAD is much more likely.
Then also, the older Ramsey brother comes into play, my theory is still that he might have been the original offender, abusing Burke, it can be a learned behavior, who then out of trauma offended himself. Feces smearing is both seen in kids with autism and kids who have suffered abuse/neglect.
If he was abused, it would also make sense that he was a loner child, who didn't interact with other kids and mostly did solitary activities. I think it was the neighbor who recounted that her children were the same age as Burke but ended up playing with JB instead because he showed no interest in interaction.
Something that we can all agree on that there is something wrong with Burke, whatever it was, smearing feces onto his sister's chocolate is certainly a sign
that he was not happy and it was done out of revenge. Even now ,at almost 30 years old, he doesn't seem like a regular, healthy adult. If I hadn't read about his childhood or saw his psychiatrist interviews as kid, I'd say it's normal for a person to be broken after their sister gets murdered, but since he already seemed as if something was off about him as a child, it just reinforces my ideas.
If someone can come up with a list about strange behavior events regarding Burke, it would be very helpful.
Also, if someone knows how long JAR lived inside the house, it would also help with time lines. TY