JonBenet the handful/sparkplug?

[KariKae]

Wow - lots of parents on the board have highly spirited children. We call ours "Hurricane Addie"

 

[txsvicki]

I was reading an exerpt from that housekeeper's book and noticed that she also called JonBenet a "handful". Does anyone know who said that first: John or Pugh? It seemed a little odd that they both used the same word to describe JonBenet, but of course John said that she would probably be a handful as a teenager if she'd lived. Pugh called her a handful during that year of babysitting and cleaning the house.

 

[DeeDee249]

I was reading an exerpt from that housekeeper's book and noticed that she also called JonBenet a "handful". Does anyone know who said that first: John or Pugh? It seemed a little odd that they both used the same word to describe JonBenet, but of course John said that she would probably be a handful as a teenager if she'd lived. Pugh called her a handful during that year of babysitting and cleaning the house.

JB seemed like a smart, spoiled and sassy little girl. But LHP said they were both well-behaved and not brats. JB, like many girls her age, probably had a very strong opinion of her likes and dislikes. Girls can be bossy at that age.

 

[eileenhawkeye]

To be fair, LPH could only come with about 2-3 examples of JonBenet being a bit "bratty" and she was at the house 3x a week for a year. Also, she was at the house in the morning when children tend to be cranky since it's early and they have to go to school. I don't get the idea that JBR was a "terror" or anything like that. It does seem like she wasn't afraid to speak her mind.

 

[Agatha_C]

a sparkplug???
I could thin of a million adjatives, but sparkplug?
Sparkplug can be an object also?/??/

A sparkplug. Something that burns out and needs to be replaced. An object easily replaced. An object like everything else they owned. Owned like a house, one easily walked away from and replaced. A house, a child, a sparkplug whats the difference anyway. Its the money that was hard to come by.

 

[joeskidbeck]

A sparkplug. Something that burns out and needs to be replaced. An object easily replaced. An object like everything else they owned. Owned like a house, one easily walked away from and replaced. A house, a child, a sparkplug whats the difference anyway. Its the money that was hard to come by.

:cry:

 

[Agatha_C]

:cry:

I know Beck. I know....

 

[horatio]

My view is it was more than likely an accident/cover-up than a straight murder. JR &/or PR accidentally severely injured JBR, probably during a fit of rage, and then went into panic mode thinking she was dead. I don't think there was any pre-meditation, but lots of planning and staging afterwards. Basically, it would've been madness at 755 from midnight 'til around 5:52am.