Voice of Reason said:
UKGuy,
I think this is an excellent point and should be considered in greater detail. The hair entwined in the garrotte, IMO, suggests haste and total disregard for JBR. If this was a recurring sexual game, I don't think you would find hair within the knot of the garrotte. The only way I see that as possible, would be if the perp KNEW that this was the last time he'd be abusing JBR. Also, doesn't this suggest that the knot was tied with the rope already around her neck? If it was made before going around her neck, it wouldn't have her hair tied into it. My conclusion is that she is already unconscious, from either a stun gun or a blow to the head, and the garrotte was applied as staging.
Voice of Reason
Also, doesn't this suggest that the knot was tied with the rope already around her neck?
I suspect so, this is why I remarked in another post that IMO a garrote is not an EA device.
My current view is that JonBenet
may have been asphyxiated by the cord, say acting as you would expect a garrote to do.
But the cord may have been simply restraining her initially, as in looped around her neck and tethered to some point.
There are other marks and abrasions on her neck that do not correspond with a clinical EA session, or a garrote style execution!
As you suggest I also think that its possible that the paintbrush handle was added after she was deceased, in fact its one of the reasons why I think there was more than one staging event!
Let me expand, the stager wanted to add the the sexual feature to JonBenet's homicide, but did not want to use his/her own finger, so they improvised using the paintbrush. Having done this he/she then wanted the garroting to be a prominent feature, so they added the paintbrush handle, and in the process entwined JonBenet's hair in the knotting. This suggests it was done quickly, in a ad hoc manner, maybe even with a hint of panic.
FULTON said:
The sexual device was a staging tool, after all how would you explain a dead child in your home ???
It may be us who are projecting the EA perspective upon the wine-cellar crimescene, the perpetrator may or may not have intended the sexual assault to be viewed through the prism of a garrote metamorphising into an EA device?
If JonBenet was being indulged in some form of prior and recurring EA activity, then although you may expect some of her hair to be loose and fall randomly, I certainly would not expect the person administering the EA to include the possibility of unintentional pain to JonBenet by say her jerking her neck slightly and pulling her hair roots, and allowing it to become visibly entwined in the knotting which due to the applied torque or pressure would apply pressure to her hair roots, and not pleasure to her neck!
You suggest:
Voice of Reason said:
the garrotte was applied as staging
This is possible, it is also possible, that it was
only the paintbrush handle that was added,
at this stage, and someone else had already in a prior staging applied the ligature cord.
For some reason the person who did the wine-cellar staging decided that these additional elements were required.
Some have suggested it was to hide prior sexual abuse, this would suggest her killer was not the wine-cellar stager, since the sexual assault could have taken place at a prior staging?
It is important to consider that there may have been multiple stagings, by different people for different reasons. Speculating from this allows you offer explanations for some of the other crime scene elements that appear to have nothing to do with a 6-year old girl abducted from her bed.