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If his friend (was it DS?) was there that night, when did he arrive? I never heard any mention of him being along with them on their car trip to deliver gifts, so are they saying he showed up after the family returned home? That doesn't really fit, since 1) JR and BR didn't mention it in their recounting of what happened after they got home that night and 2) it would have been an odd time for him to show up when the family was tired and ready for bed. Do they mean this was an expected visit or did he just randomly show up on his own? Was this after JR had gone to sleep? Did he not know the friend was there? If BR let him in the door after JR was asleep, is this possibly a way an intruder could have entered after that if BR forgot to re-lock the door?I to have heard about BR friend staying over that night. But didn't know about it till lately. And I agree that it would be hard to control two children. Just wondering if they ever interviewed the other boy, I don't believe I heard anything about it. I would guess because he was a minor.
So far, none of that makes sense to me. I don't see any way he could have visited that night. And also, do they mean he stayed there overnight, or was he supposedly just there for a short visit and then went back home? I know he lived in walking distance, so I suppose that's possible. But it would have been awfully late for that. Did the friend's parents let him roam on his own at night like that? Or did he sneak out? What time was it when he supposedly would have left the R house? Or was he supposed to have still been there in the morning when all the trouble started? Are the Rs supposed to have been unaware he was there and that's why no one ever mentioned him in reports of the 911 call etc.? And BR never mentioned he was there while he lay scared in bed all morning pretending to be asleep?
This obviously isn't making sense when looked at critically. Why are people saying "I heard his friend was there that night" when all you have to do is ask a few questions about that to realize that's not likely? It doesn't fit in at all with those same people's OTHER theories of the rest of what went on that night. If you believe the part about BR and JR setting up one of his gifts late that night before going to bed, then where was the friend at that point? That's just one example of how a visiting friend wouldn't fit with the rest of the story that you say you do believe. Sounds like people are letting their theories run wild without vetting them with any discernment whatsoever. Which I also feel is what many have let happen with their RDI theories as a whole. People just getting carried away with their imaginations.
But I did just think of one other possibility about the visiting friend story. Do they mean he was there EARLIER that night? And left before the family went to deliver gifts? Possible, maybe. But if so, that doesn't really seem to have much to do with what happened to JBR and everything else in the house overnight. Don't see any relevance to make it worth mentioning. Wouldn't change anything.
UNLESS ok, here we go... unless the friend DIDN'T really leave when the family did, and he stayed behind by himself, unbeknownst to the family, and he was there alone the whole time they were gone (time enough to write a ransom note?), and was STILL there when they got back home, but stayed hidden, all still unbeknownst to the family, and only came out of hiding after all had gone to sleep... and ta-da! just like that, we have another SODDI theory. See how easy that was?
I obviously don't believe that in any way, shape, or form, but see how easy it is to get carried away just by using our imagination? If I really wanted to, I could probably sincerely argue for that theory and find all kinds of true facts that could back it up and construct a whole theory about it that would be based in facts known to be true. And plenty of other things that are opinions but fit when you look at it a certain way. Which is what I think has happened with the RDI proponents. You can make almost anything fit if you study the heck out of every possible detail and present it in a certain way. And with a certain relentlessness, I would say. Gives it staying power. Which it certainly has had. Doesn't give it truth though. Just the work of good imaginations and excessive creativity and an overdose of stubbornness, imo.