I just want to say I personally don’t believe anyone in the house did it. But….I completely understand how you might think they did. If or when your child goes missing, you absolutely have to find them and you go completely insane until they are found. But, to miss a room in the house is not a direct sign of guilt. And anyone can say you are sure you would check every single inch in that house, but honestly, who knows what you would actually do if you were placed in that situation. And that IS being completely honest. The police searched the house too and missed her, don’t forget.
Here are some valid points of evidence I have that I can’t quite get my head around. There were what appears to be drag marks on her blankets. Lou Smit points it out and he does appear to be correct. If Burke dragged her from her bed, a fight would have ensued up stairs. She wasn’t attacked in her room with the blunt object or there would have been blood. The garrote being used upstairs doesn’t make sense because whoever attacked her with it would have had to be behind her. She would have had to have gotten up, then there would be a chance for her to see her attacker and scream.
There was the window, the luggage and the glass that the police didn’t pay attention to. Ok, if I’m going to stage a crime scene, I won’t put a speck of glass on the suitcase. I might open the window and move the suitcase. Oh and the plants were smashed under the grate on the outside. It had definitely been opened.
Apparently there was a freezer in the basement near where she was found. Why didn’t they put her inside? Did they really predict the cops would be so incompetent? I do wonder why her killer didn’t put her in the freezer….
But the ransom is my biggest why.
Ok, let’s play some scenarios. One man that breaks in with the intent of taking their child and demanding a ransom. Maybe he was hired by others, who knows. He writes the note, he goes to Jon Benet and zaps her with a taser, takes her downstairs, decides to molest and murder her in a torturous fashion and beats her over the head, killing her and effectively destroying his ransom plan. He could have taken her dead body and pretended she was alive to collect the ransom. And let’s not forget a second note was starting to be written. Was that one meant to replace the original?
Let’s change the scenario a bit. Say he was just a pedophile that meant to simply assault her and killed her on accident. Was he in the middle of the assault and heard something, freaked out and killed her? Was the fake ransom note a cover for her death? Seems obvious enough. Then just leave her on the floor visible? Again, he didn’t know the cops would be so incompetent. I find the ransom note so odd no matter who wrote it when her body was in the basement the whole time. On top of that, no matter who killed her had no idea they actually left no trace evidence.
So let’s take Burke or Patsy. I agree with the Netflix doc when JR said why would she kill her daughter when she just overcame cancer? If she was a good person or bad person, why risk it all when you have a second chance at life? And if Burke did it? He as so socially awkward. I’m supposed to believe he’s going to keep his sisters murder a secret? My niece is 11 and pretty socially awkward…and she lies a lot. She’s very obvious though. You know right away. On top of all that, a garrote is very cruel. Who comes up with that as a cover up? If she was hit in the head, why not toss her down the stairs and say she fell? Why garrote her and molest her? Makes no sense.