If intruder then they had JBR at some point obviously.
See, we're coming down to semantics now.
I don't accept carrying a child downstairs and into the basement as "Having" your child.
If intruder then the ransom note could've been written while the R's were at the Whites. I'd say thats ahead of time. You're stating as fact that 'we know it was not prepared ahead of time' when really we dont. You seem to be setting foundations of knowledge that dont exist. I suggest instead 'maybe this was not prepared ahead of time' or something less bold.
Potato Potahto.
I see ahead of time as showing a level of preparation..ie: writing the note before you get there. It's a bit like going out to dinner and getting dressed at the restaurant...it doesn't make sense. Unless you're rushed of course, or perhaps you didn't know you were GOING until suddenly you were there.
Fortunately the only way you can see it happening isn't the only way it could happen. No insult intended but your intruder scenario isn't very good. Grabbing the child and heading downstairs seems to be a deliberate oversimplification as JBR would scream. It looks like you've not given the intruder scenario much consideration and I understand that.
Oh of course, I only stated one of many possibilities...and yes, I kept it simple for no reason in particular *wink*. Scream? Wasn't he carrying a stun gun or don't you follow that theory?
You choose the option of a team/pair of intruders working together...slight overkill for kidnapping a 6 year old girl no? Wouldn't one wait in a get away car....or were they simply going to walk away down the street holding a girl?
These folks also didn't prepare a note in advance ("Don't worry Foreign buddy, there's sure to be a pen and paper there somewhere")....
As for not giving the intruder scenario not much consideration...not true, I am open to all possibilities, but even if someone presented me with a robust Intruder scenario, there is still that multitude or weird, deceitful, conflicting, non-cooperative, coincidental, flip-flopping, changing over time behaviour and evidence that would leave me with suspicions...so yeah, I've considered it.
I'm not stating things as fact...when I do then you can ask me how I know so assuredly things like "the ransom note was not written ahead of time," or "they never had JBR."
It could have been (note how I'm not stating as fact) that the ransom note author intended for JBR to be 'safe and unharmed' upon JR/PR reading the note but that ensuing events rendered the ransom note obsolete, or no longer applicable. But they didn't retrieve the note.
Well we can agree there, the Ransom Note WAS obsolete...and in my conversations (in a different thread) with Murri I have laid out a scenario where the note wasn't retrieved once an intruder realised they had to leave
in a hurry.
Besides, if you stated everything as fact, you wouldn't be RDI or IDI...you'd be nothing, because the case hasn't been solved and I doubt you have any more information that what is out there...