IDI theorists, how do you explain Patsy's staying on the couch?

[gumshoe1]

When John found JonBenet's dead body and carried JonBenet upstairs, John and Fleet White were screaming that they found JonBenet. Fleet was screaming that someone should call an ambulance. Everyone in the room with Patsy heard that JonBenet was found and went running to check on JonBenet except Patsy. If IDI , JonBenet could have still been alive for all Patsy knew, yet Patsy just kept sitting on the couch instead of running to check on JonBenet like everyone else did. Patsy hesitated.

If IDI, it should have taken a team of wild horses to keep Patsy from immediately checking on JonBenet when JonBenet was found.

If IDI, why the heck did Patsy just keep sitting on the couch for a few minutes after Patsy knew JonBenet was found?

The answer is that Patsy did not immediately run to check on JonBenet like everyone else did because Patsy knew JonBenet was already dead because RDI.

 

[Lebowski]

strongly agree.

IMO, you do have to put an asterisk next to any psychology-based inference, because people are weird and complicated, and arguments of the form "this is how the person should have acted" are unreliable. but in this situation it seems like a near-certainty. a parent who's spent the morning thinking her daughter was kidnapped suddenly learns she's not kidnapped and has been in the house all along and HERE SHE IS. like you said, it should have taken a team of wild horses to hold her back. hell, some of the moms i know would have even shoved dad out of the way. yes, the daughter was dead, but she couldn't have known that yet. not from another room. even JR, who'd found her and carried her body up, wasn't sure yet. (only det. arndt realized it immediately, afaict.) everyone else ran in. there was yelling and excitement. yet PR sits.

someone might also imagine she was tired or still weak from cancer/chemo/etc., but i don't buy it. sure, it had been an emotionally exhausting morning, but i think the adrenaline would trump that. after all, the thing that had been draining you was worrying about whether your daughter would be ok, and now you're about to get the answer to that... right? and you did get a full night's rest... right? ... as far as health, cancer was in remission and it had been a year or two since chemo. it's not like she was disabled. AIUI, she had been active, and did not need help walking when she was at the party, etc. ... i speculate the "needing help" to walk over to see JBR's body was BS theatrics she made up on the spot, when she realized her lack of a reaction may have looked suspicious.

 

[gumshoe1]

I don't understand why Patsy's remaining on the couch when Patsy knew that JBR's body was found gets so little attention. It seems VERY damning to me.

 

[Lebowski]

yeah. i wonder if she was ever asked about it.

 

[Lebowski]

and then she did the ridiculous thing where she called out for jesus to resurrect her like lazarus

edit: no offense to people of faith, but COME ON

 

[gumshoe1]

The IDI theorists are ignoring this thread.

 

[Lebowski]

before we lean too hard on it, it might be worthwhile to track down exactly where we get this information from? sorry to toss that out there and then disappear, but i have work to do that i'm avoiding, lol.