Recent content by wannagonorth

Absolutely! And especially with the cancer hanging over her head. He had the money, the health insurance through his work. And her currency as a trophy wife was at a very low ebb, if not totally obliterated through her illness. I can imagine she felt very vulnerable.

I just reread parts of Linda Arndt's deposition (I guess it was her suit against the Boulder PD) and she says that John was carrying JonBenet facing him, but with her head higher than his, gripping her abound her legs. What she noted was the strangeness of putting her head up so high, like he...

The fact that the head wound was not open and bleeding makes that case even stronger. They didn't know she'd been hit on the head (unless Burke told them). Even if they did know, they could have explained that away as an accidental fall. Lots of "foot of the stairs" murders have been...

I don't really see a disconnect. We're searching among a myriad of unlikely or impossible alternatives for the one that seems the least unlikely, or at least the most possible. I personally suspected Burke before I saw any videos of him, either child or adult. But Patsy and John both seems...

Remember all the people Laura Richards tried to speak to for the CBS investigation. At least some of them must have been Burke's inner circle, since the investigation ended up focusing on him. So why were no statements from those people included? Because they refused to speak? (That wouldn't...

Well, I haven't seen anyone stepping up to say what a regular guy he was either. It's odd that nobody from his "real life" has been interviewed or given their impressions of him, other than his father (naturally). I don't know which way that cuts.

And we already know what kind of witness BR will make, with his shifty eyes and smirky smile.

The same thought has run through my mind. What if he set her up completely, by throwing Burke under the bus and telling Patsy that she would lose her only remaining child if Burke was revealed to be the perpetrator? Making her believe that all the staging was intended to cast suspicion away...

I say they're lucky, for the same reason Casey Anthony was lucky. They're lucky that our Constitution is as defendant-friendly as it is. They're lucky that they couldn't be forced to come down to the station, separated, and grilled until somebody spilled the beans, before they had a chance to...

I think he was absolutely treating Burke Ramsey with kid gloves, compared to Dr. Phil's usual confrontational "pull no punches" sort of style. I couldn't believe it either, especially when Dr. Phil chastised his viewers for even suspecting that any the Ramseys were involved in the murder. I can...

All of this makes perfect sense to me, except the second part of this "I think they thought the police would find the body much sooner and therefore think the kidnapper killed JBR because the parents didn't follow directions." If the kidnapper killed JonBenet because the parents didn't follow...

I can easily fathom a young boy doing something like this with malice. Some kids pull the wings of flies or set small animals on fire with malice. Or out of lurid curiosity coupled with the total lack of empathy you mention above. I keep coming back to the possibility that the garrote was used...

What I would most like to know is: Who actually found the body, and when, and where, and under what circumstances. Where was JonBenet killed, and how did one of the parents happen to come across her dead body in the middle of the night when they should have been in their bed sleeping? Did...

I too was struck by Burke's characterization of Patsy's reaction as "going psycho." It's callous, dismissive. It sounds like he views her reaction as excessive, overly extreme. Like to him it was no big deal.

IIRC, Dr. Phil asked Burke if he had hit JonBenet and brought up the incident with the golf club, which Burke insisted was an accident. The lack of curiosity makes sense if you assume he knew and the parents were trying to keep him from being questioned by the neighbors or police.