I consider myself as having a good deal of common sense and a healthy skepticism. After learning about the JBR case, there is no doubt in my mind that Patsy Ramsey killed JBR. Not sure at what point John got involved but I suspect he was involved in the staging. I think it was an accident (the initial blow to the head caused by rage). I think it was a toileting issue or during hairdyeing with an unccoperative JBR. I think JBR was obviously completely unresponsive and her skull was obviously crushed...then the staging. Why the staging...they justified it...after all it was an accident and they had another child to take care of. They couldn't go to jail.
Yeah, it's not a big leap of imagination.
I still cry when I think about this, the injustice, the poor kid who never got a chance to grow up. Yes, Patsy did it. And John helped.
I am enraged at this murder, compounded by the knowledge that they got away with it and they FLAUNTED it!
I'm not kidding. Patsy's own words: "If you think I did it, let's have a trial and get it over with." Translation: "even if we did it, you'll never prove it."
SD, it would interest me: was it one specific thing which finally tipped the scale for you to the RDI side, or did you suddenly see 'the whole picture' where most pieces of the puzzle fit in?
Rashomon, I told this story once before, but for those not familiar with it, a little of both. I was die-hard RST until about June of 2000, because that was the now-legendary ST-LKL face-off. That was the first chink in the armor, as it were. Sort of a one-two punch: John's sitting there smiling like the Emperor in "Star Wars," totally convinced that he's above us poor mortals while a clearly drug-impaired Patsy tries to use her (she thinks) irresistable sexual charms to try and win this man ST over, FOLLOWED up by the resignation of their head PI, Ellis Armistead, citing "events taking place in the media," as if we didn't know what that meant. He said his conscience would no longer allow him to take part in the lie that the PIs were looking for the killer. he actually said that when he went into the case, he knew that parents are overwhelmingly the killers of children, and that he knew his job was not to look for leads, but to protect them. Don't forget, he was one of the architects of the attempted hit-job on Tom Miller!
That was the first chink in the armor.
In May of 2001, that chink became a huge dent with Lou Smit's "traveling intruder show" where he proved, to me, that the window-entry was a phony. Watching this scrawny man flail around in the window well like a snake in a rat maze kind of did me in.
By the summer of 2002, the huge dent had become a gaping hole, not only because of the revelations about the palm and boot print stuff, but because the most notorious RSTs of all were doing the same thing to the Van Dams that they laid at the feet of their enemies.
That, to resort to cliche, was indeed the straw that broke this camel's back!
That was it! Everything else just kind of fell in after that.
After all: once you eliminate the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, is the truth.
I'm switching to the intruder theory.