JonBenet the extraordinary child

[tipper]

John Ramsey was not in the best of shape on December 24th and before. He was suffering from undiagnosed clinical depression. He was preparing to quit his job in May, rather than be fired in the upcoming selloff of Access by Lockheed-Martin he knew was on the horizon, and he had no new job lined up and ready to replace his old income. He had money, but it was all tied up in non-liquid assets; two airplanes, two expensive boats, two expensive houses. In September of 1996, his oldest son John Andrew had been issued a summons and two weeks after that was arrested for two separate incidents of underage drinking and was due to attend a court hearing after Christmas centered on those incidents. His youngest son Burke was not especially smart, and while his daughter was skilled enough in math to perform well at an age-appropriate level, Burke needed to be tied down to math tutors in Charlevoix while he was meant to be enjoying his summer vacation. His wife was cheery about having defeated cancer, but John did not believe a word of it and was sure she was going to die before JonBenet grew to womanhood. Speaking of Patsy, John was starting to see her put JonBenet into pageants he did not approve of. John did not mind pageants where there was a talent portion, because it was the only part in which he approved JonBenet's participation. But on December 24th, Patsy was preparing JonBenet for a pageant, the Little Miss Hawaiian Tropic pageant, and it had no talent portion. John's little girl was to be judged in January of 1997 only on her looks and her clothing and nothing else, and it was John's responsibility to pay the large expenses involved in having her so judged.

Oh, and all during this, John did not have his religious faith to draw upon, because as he has said often, he did not come to an understanding of what faith actually was until well after JonBenet was killed.

His net worth was around $6 million. Do you have a source for the other statements?

 

[Nehemiah]

So, there is an intruder who:?

1. places a ransom letter on the stairway either before or after going into JB's bedroom and taking her downstairs
2. takes JB into the basement after she eats pineapple
3. fashions a garrotte
4. tortures her and then kills her, with the family in the house, either accidentally or as a plan to taunt the Ramseys and the police
5. possibly tries to put her in a suitcase
6. takes her into a windowless room in the most remote room of the house, where the only exit is through the only door in the room and he could feasibly get hemmed in while doing whatever with JB if the parents came downstairs
7. wraps a deceased JB up papoose-style in her white blanket with seeming care
8. is extremely lucky that the alarm was not set and that the dog was not there