Guilt and panic are cousins and when they visit they can convince us to do some really far-out things.
Last night we were watching the original 'Jaws' movie and in one of my favorite scenes, boat captain Quint recounts his experience while he was on, (off) the Indianapolis. The first thing I noticed is that when he was telling most of it he was smiling. I've known a lot of people who smile when they start to tell something really awful that has happened to them. I believe I've done it myself.
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Duct tape is an amazing material. It has the particular and unusual capabilities of sticking to things you don't want it to. Like hair. Like fingers. Like gloves. What was on that duct tape? Hmm?
If we just stand back and look at the big picture of this whole thing and try to look not at WHO did this; but by what TYPE of person did this, things look a little different. What do we know about who could do this?
1). This person is an obvious sadist.
2). This person was confident/arrogant/obsessed enough to do this within the home while the occupants were there. Some criminals really enjoy this part of it. In the world of burglary, some of these burglars will tell you that they like creeping into people's homes while they are asleep. It heightens the adrenaline rush for them.
3). The large amounts of hair within the garrote really stand out to me. This was someone who was filled with anger, strength and was occupied with thinking about something while this was being applied. Because of this hair I can say that this person was very distant from the pain inflicted on the victim. They did not take the time to brush her hair out of the way like I believe would have been done with a staging. To that end, she was still alive when this was being done, her body shows the evidence of that. So WHY? stage a garrote when she was still alive? Unless of course, you are a sadist and that is what you do.
4). We are assuming a lot of things about this entire event. We assume that the head wound was inflicted intentionally. This may have been an accident within the commission of a rage filled sexual assault. The main motive in my opinion was the garrote and not the head wound.
5). The prevailing opinion that I read is that this could not have been an intruder because ? Why not. That's my question is why not? The answer I receive most of the time is because the Ramsey's were asleep upstairs and would have been awoken to this commotion. To that line of thinking I give you: A). People keep accusing PR of being on Benzodiazepines. You cannot have your cake and eat it too on this subject. If she WAS on 'Benzos' then she easily could have slept through the whole event especially if she had a glass or two of wine with her evening meal. A glass of wine with a Christmas meal would not even remotely be out of the question.
Then; there is B). I give you the case of Jessica Lunsford. For those of you not familiar with Jessica, she was kidnapped out of her own bedroom while her grandparents were asleep in theirs. With a dog in the house and this was not a brick and mortar million dollar house with a big floor plan, no this was a DOUBLE WIDE TRAILER. Yet; the man who kidnapped and killed her managed to get inside, snatch her out of her bed and drag her out without the grandparents knowing or awakening. If you all recall, for a long time the police were focusing on the grandfather. They said there was NO WAY that someone came in that trailer without waking everyone up. They were wrong. The police were completely and totally wrong about it all and as a result from what I've learned, little Jessica was kept alive just across the way and then buried alive in a plastic garbage bag where she died. That was one of the most remarkably sad stories I have followed.
This case needs a fresh set of eyes.
As I say, guilt and panic show up at these events and make a person do unbelievably strange things. It has been established on autopsy that there was evidence of previous sexual abuse. There is a chance here that when PR stumbled across her dead in the basement, she panicked and felt the police would discover what had been going on in the house and then she came up with the idea for writing that ransom note. In my opinion the person who tied the garrote and applied it and the person who wrote the ransom note are two entirely different people.
UNLESS someone in that house has borderline personality disorder and a split personality.
