penelopemcswain
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Okay, can you unpack your intruder did it theory?
Was it an intruder known to the Rs or a random stranger?
How did they travel to and from the R home?
I will set aside how did they enter and exit for now.
Was the intruder there to kidnap JBR? Or to murder her? Or to SA her?
If there to SA, why bother with the RN, especially if leaving the body behind?
If there to murder her, why leave a RN?
If there to kidnap her, why not get the heck out of there once JBR was taken from her bedroom?
What did the intruder come prepared with? The RN was written on PR’s notepad with her pen. The SA was with PR’s art supplies.
I’ll set aside the “fed pineapple” for now.
I don’t buy the RN being dramatic and long due to spinning out. Who spins out into stealing lines from Dirty Harry movies? Or utter ridiculousness - “we are a foreign faction”. A true RN would be short and to the point - I have your daughter. Wait for my call. $118,000. No police or I kill her”
Why leave the body behind but also leave the RN behind?
IMO, an intruder would be there for one purpose - pick one.
Kidnap? Leave short note and take JBR with you when you leave. No need for SA, murder, garrotté etc.
SA? Commit the act then leave. No RN required.
Murder? Commit the act then leave. No SA or RN required.
All imo
Most of your questions can't be answered. I don't have case files. I don't know how an intruder could have gotten in. I'm guessing there are lots of ways into a big house which didn't seem to have a security system. I don't know what their original motive would have been or why they would write a ransom note.
As far as SA, nothing about any of it says the family - any family other than a deeply depraved psychopathic one that would have tons of other evidence of their depravity - could have done it. I'm not saying that incest / child abuse / child murder by a family member don't happen, they just don't generally happen like that, not without a long history of horrific abuse. I think a lot of the confusion about this case stems from having much lighter / less graphic info on the actual murder at the time than we have now. And maybe a lack of understanding about the patterns of abuse and how it just doesn't seem to fit. It fits much more with, sorry to be blunt, but someone unrelated who intended to just do whatever to this child and discard them.
And as far as the ransom note, how is it showing anything other than someone spinning out? Whether Patsy or an intruder, it's pretty unhinged.