I'm not sure what they were going to do with regards to JBR's body. I can't image John and Patsy would actually believe that going to another state would protect them if the Boulder authorities decided to charge them. Just moving to another state will not protect you if you have committed a crime. That state would just extradite you; no sweat.
So, I am not sure what their Great Game Plan was. At this point, I am thinking that they intended for the body to be found, and that they would squeeze out the appropriate number of tears and then be allowed to leave the state to privately mourn. I think it's possible that John and Pat really thought that they were this important. Like they thought that they had the status of a Kennedy. They assumed that everyone would feel sorry for them, and leave them alone.
I don't think their ransom set-up and the staging was terribly clever or showed intelligence. I think they lucked out with a remarkably dumb group of police and a very cowardly DA.
Alix,
Just moving to another state will not protect you if you have committed a crime. That state would just extradite you; no sweat.
Sure, but fleeing to Atlanta was only a detour enroute to some country with no extradition policy or even doing a Lord Lucan and simply vanishing off the face of the earth.
So, I am not sure what their Great Game Plan was. At this point, I am thinking that they intended for the body to be found, and that they would squeeze out the appropriate number of tears and then be allowed to leave the state to privately mourn.
Personally I reckon their Plan A rested on JonBenet not being discovered. Things turned out differently than they expected and John
found JonBenet.
Here is my rationale. If the R's had wanted JonBenet to be discovered they would
not have wrapped her in a blanket and
hidden her away in the wine-cellar.
What might they have done: well they might have dressed her in a pink barbie nightgown and left her, having been visibly sexually assaulted, in her bed with her barbie doll lying close by. Then phoned 911 to report a homicide.
Someone realized the latter strategy would immediately invoke the standard homicide procedures and lead directly to their arrest. So they amended the prior staging or actual primary crime-scene, removed JonBenet to the wine-cellar and settled upon an abduction strategy, what I refer to as Plan A.
Now Plan A mostly worked, crucial crime-scene evidence was contaminated or removed, the R's gained time to phone friends. Now John finds JonBenet at approximately 1 PM, then shortly later at 1:40 PM he is overheard instructing his pilot to prepare for a flight to Atlanta. Any connection?
John probably took the decision to
find JonBenet during his missing period. Its even possible that he moved JonBenet from another location to the wine-cellar so to
find her, explaining why Fleet White never noticed JonBenet earlier that morning.
John realized the police were not going to go away, the Ransom Note time of 10 AM had come and gone , and it was possible the abduction ruse might be seen through. So he thought I'll find JonBenet then work out some way to flee Colorado.
I don't think their ransom set-up and the staging was terribly clever or showed intelligence. I think they lucked out with a remarkably dumb group of police and a very cowardly DA.
I reckon it was, patently it was not rocket science, but it worked, they gained time to rally and plan forward. John Ramsey then formulated Plan B employing Lou Smit to promote the predatory pedophile intruder theory, and the rest is history.
So under a lot of stress John Ramsey pragmatically executed Plan A, then when that failed, he invented Plan B, a lot of what we think of as Patsy's histrionics and Kennedyesque behaviour is her playing her part in Plan B. This will be her idea of how a victim's mother should behave.
Since Patsy played her part in all of this. I reckon she would have left with John for Atlanta. Common sense should suggest that this was their Great Game Plan. Evade arrest and leave Colorado ASAP.
Would they have picked Burke up from Fleet White's house, maybe, my money would be on them going straight to the airport to fly to Atlanta. As far as they knew they had only one opportunity to flee Coloroda, and stopping to pick Burke up might compromise that, since Fleet White with his suspicions might pick up the phone and notify the authorities?
So back to Plan A. If the police had left the R's house, lets say some time after 10 AM, to search locally. Then John and Patsy would have instructed their pilot to get ready to fly to Atlanta. Leaving JonBenet and Burke behind. John and Patsy's rationale was simple if we dont get arrested we'll flee Colorada ASAP.
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