If a defendant admits guilt (to his attorneys) that is when they begin discussing plea bargains.
or they simply get new attorneys and they don't share the confession with the new one. Think OJ
If a defendant admits guilt (to his attorneys) that is when they begin discussing plea bargains.
Let me re-emphasize this:
I don't necessarily think they were out to fool the police or the FBI. Because they don't have to fool the police. They don't have to fool the FBI. They don't have to fool pathologists. They don't have to fool SuperDave.
They have to fool one person out of twelve. THAT'S IT. As PT Barnum is supposed to have said, "there's a sucker born every minute." And, sadly, a LOT of those suckers find their way onto juries and give us OJ Simpson "justice." And they knew that. They watched the Simpson trial. There's your how-to manual right there.
I follow you. BUT, and this is crucial as I've often said, without the "kidnapping rant" as you call it, there's no explanation for WHY JB was killed and WHO did it. Without it, all you have is a dead girl in her own house with sexual injuries. Ask Ron Walker sometime who LE would have looked at first. The RN gives the Rs any number of wildcard explanations AND the ability to claim victimhood. "Why are you cops bothering us. THIS person said they did it. Why aren't you looking for them?"
Does anyone think this might have been the idea?
Perhaps I did not word that as well as I should have. That tactic might work, CathyR, if PR had been the "other woman." She wasn't. Some people think she was, but JR had been divorced for a while before they met.
I have heard that the R's had a dog. A little white Bichon. Where was the dog?
I think that's how it ended up, SD, them being able to fool one person out of twelve, but I don't think that was going through the stager(s) mind at the time.
It was just a frantic attempt to throw all possible evidence out there to point to someone else in a really short time frame. There was so much staging overkill that this crime should have been solved. It IS solved in my mind.
I've often wondered, without the ransom note would they even have been suspected at all? You are right: without the RN it would have been a dead girl with sexual injuries, an appearance of deviant molestation, and an unidentified DNA type in her underwear. In view of the fact that the DA never wanted to prosecute in the first place, this would have been handled as an unknown intruder, period.
The complete oddity of the RN made it way harder for the Ramseys to look innocent, IMO.
MurriFlower said:The whole RDI idea that the Rs wrote the note to deflect attention makes absolutely no sense, because it did exactly the opposite.
I figured I'd move this here, since it was this line of thought I'd hoped to examine with this thread.
On a side note, it's odd: I created this thread so people could have at me, and I created it with certain people in mind, in the hope that they would point out specific weaknesses. I figured they'd jump at the chance. But they never do. I wonder if Ravyn was right...
Whatever happened to Ravyn anyway?
I figured I'd move this here, since it was this line of thought I'd hoped to examine with this thread.
On a side note, it's odd: I created this thread so people could have at me, and I created it with certain people in mind, in the hope that they would point out specific weaknesses. I figured they'd jump at the chance. But they never do. I wonder if Ravyn was right...
right about what? can someone pls pm me? thx.I figured I'd move this here, since it was this line of thought I'd hoped to examine with this thread.
On a side note, it's odd: I created this thread so people could have at me, and I created it with certain people in mind, in the hope that they would point out specific weaknesses. I figured they'd jump at the chance. But they never do. I wonder if Ravyn was right...
right about what? can someone pls pm me? thx.
IDIs love to claim that the rn pointed straight to the Ramseys and that makes us RDIs look foolish for believing the way we do. Now tell me, how does that make sense? If they feel that the rn pointed straight to the Ramseys, why in the world do they believe an intruder did it?
I don't know either, JMO. Ravyn or SuperDave, would one of you please clue us in? I feel like you are keeping a rather good theory secret. Didn't you guys learn in kindergarten to share? :innocent:
I dont know what you're talking about. I've said it points to a socialist with a military/political background, and I've said it for years. There's nothing about the ransom note that indicates it was written by JR or PR as a coverup.
Sorry, Holdon, I didn't mean to imply that all IDIs feel that way. I am aware that you believe the ransom note was sincere.
...then you're ill-informed because I've also said for years it probably wasnt for money. As I've said several times, the ransom note is probably a mix of truth and lies. Placed on the back stairs as a tripwire for parents coming downstairs. Its length designed to keep them reading for a few minutes. Its content designed to keep them from calling the cops. It isn't that complicated.
ETA the ransom note hinted at an ideology and an identity.
...then you're ill-informed because I've also said for years it probably wasnt for money. As I've said several times, the ransom note is probably a mix of truth and lies. Placed on the back stairs as a tripwire for parents coming downstairs. Its length designed to keep them reading for a few minutes. Its content designed to keep them from calling the cops. It isn't that complicated.
ETA the ransom note hinted at an ideology and an identity.