Why was JonBenet's body not removed from the house?

[andreww]

But Pam Paugh was not allowed into the basement so John's golf bag never made it out of the house, AFAIK. Although, based on the BPD's incompetence in general, I would not be surprised to find that one of the police officers might have gone down and fetched it back up for her...

The golf bag was searched. Nothing there.


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[singularity]

In reply to those asking what happened to the remainder of the cord and the duct tape, etc., the answer is simple.

PR walked out of her home on the afternoon of the 26th with all this stuff concealed in her purse/handbag. They were not official suspects so knew they would not be searched.

While that's possible, there's another answer much more simple....

The items never left the house(until a much later date). LE completely botched the crime scene. They didn't look in the tupperware container in the victim's bedroom and they didn't even look inside the plastic bags in the house. In Patsy's interview, Demuth is practically on his knees begging her to remember what was in them.

Of course she doesn't remember and even if she did, she's not gonna tell them squat because they've just revealed to her that they didn't collect or document hardly anything at the crime scene.

JBR's body was removed from the house....to the garage and placed in one of the couple's cars. They had wrapped her up like a papoose in the white blanket and intended to drop her body off somewhere.

I know variations of this theory have existed over the years but its unlikely. There's too much foot traffic at the scene to even consider such a move.

The couple did not think the house would be searched because why would the police search the house?

They were definitely smart enough to know the cops are going to search the house and John's jaw probably hit the floor when they didn't find her on their first trip to the basement and in fact never found her.

If they just bided their time - once 10am rolled around and there was no sign of a kidnapper calling, then the police would leave their home and they would be on their own.

Unlikely that LE was going to leave and they certainly couldn't expect them to leave just because it hit 10 am.

Then, when everyone had gone, they would bring the body back into the house and "discover it" - the kidnapper returned the dead body of JBR because the parents had called the police when they had been instructed NOT to.

They would've left the house in handcuffs in such a scenario. Even if by a miracle the cops left the house, they would've had cops down the street and it would've been obvious that no kidnappers had returned her body.

 

[Dynamic88]

The reason for leaving the body may not have anything to do with "proper burial" but rather the simple fact that dumping it away from the house involves not only risk (it's also risky to find the body in the house) but it's a type of risk that can't be explained away. IOWs, if JR and/or PR were found dumping a body in the woods, or simply stopped for a license plate light being out, or any other reason, and the body was discovered, they couldn't point to an intruder, or the RN, or the broken window, etc. etc. Allowing the body to be found in the house still leaves the possibility of explaining why it must have been an intruder. If the body is found in the car, the jig is up.

 

[DeDee]

I see the note as being an effort to cover up the crime not that the killer really wanted the money.

To cover up the crime the note delays a murder investigation.

A missing child is looked for in every nook and cranny in the house around the house in the neighborhood. After all she could have just wandered off.

A ransom note tells people don't look as she is with me. When looking does happen it is looking for points of entry how the kidnapper got in. The wine cellar didn't seem important to people looking for points of entry even a cursory look would have noticed how dark the room is and the person would assume no windows here forget this room. The attention would have been drawn up and away from the floor to anyone looking for windows or other types of entry.

Once the body leaves the house any perp takes a bigger risk of being seen when body is dumped. They also risk leaving more forensic clues like fibers from their car. Johns car fibers are easy to explain. She rode in it on the way home fibers could be anywhere on her and she could have transferred them herself. Started out on hair rubbed off on nightgown while sleeping. All the fiber evidence used in the RDI theories from her home, parents, etc. would be expected to be found on her. They would be less damming and more likely gone if her body was dumped remotely. IMO it serves the parents to get her out of the house more than it serves an intruder.

What gives me pause is the rope. I have never bought rope that wasn't packaged in at least a 10 foot piece. Even rope for a clothes line is at least 10 ft long. How many feet of rope was found along with her body? I bet one end had been cut and some of the rope is missing. Not in their house, boat, or second house was any of this rope found. Why would police look for additional pieces of the rope if it was complete with factory sealed ends to prevent ravel present.

May be time to dispel a rumor. There was a hiking/cowboy/sports type of rope found in JARs room inside of a brown paper bag [use it for payment of the ransome]. Rumor was that fibers from that rope were found in JBs bed. That is not accurate. Fibers from rope were not on her bed, in her bedding, or so forth.

The white nylon cord was used to wrap the garrotte and the strangulation tool. We can see frayed edges of the wrist cord that I suppose was cut with BRs knife that was left in the windowless hellhole.

There are restrictive guidelines on moving a lifeless body as there are tell tale signs of the movement that the lifeless body cannot hide. Today, at this time, I believe JB was strangled in the hallway, and very soon thereafter, taken inside the windowless room where she remained until she was discovered later in the day by her father and his best friend, FW.

JRs painting from Patsy at Christmas 1996 was custom ordered. PR stored it secreted behind the sofa until Christmas Day. Tools for hanging that painting did not include the same cord or tape as that found at the CS. This custom painting is an item that Pam removed when she visited the residence for the couple. Why they wanted all of those American Girl dolls and such, I should not begin to speculate.