Hi all. Still regularly lurkin ... avoided JB's forum but basically always followed her story. After a 6 month contract is USA, I was in Bahrain Dec 96 and vivdly remember the story breaking. Having been caught up in the OJ trial, I became (like most us) a crime-addict. JB's story even brought me to forums before Laci did.
This post is long - using those accumulated credits while lurkin...
While it's sad Patsy has passed - truth is we all pass in one way or another - at least PR had a pretty good idea of what would take her life - most of us could be taken by surprise. Imo, her last decade HAD to have been spent in added torment which would have not contributed to her medical status. Sadly, JB had no such inkling of what would take her life - odds are she never even thought of death in her young life. She was in a place where she trusted adults - naturally that complete trust began ... and ended ... with her parents.
There is NO WAY I could accept 'some intruder/s' murdered her. The ransom note was, for starters, complete overkill. Why wasn't it prepared BEFORE entering the house if abduction was the motive? Why from the same writing-block as was in the house? I just feel the note went into TOO much detail to 'exclude' parents. Why 118 000? Why not 100 000 $? Why personal references? Why the forced changed writing?
REAL intruders are hyped on on adrenalin; they have a fear of capture and a need to control - and then escape - they do NOT care about other peoples feelings (esp their victims) and they most certainly do NOT leave that type of ESSAY behind. It was the note that did it for me; eerily and far too remarkably cognisant with the Ramsey's private life; it made me go 'ut-oh' from the start. But seriously, so!
Subsequently, a lot of the money the Ramsey's made went on to make others a lil richer, and, dare I say it - human cash-cows do tempt and create false lands of Milk & Honey for the odd Uriah Heap in the background. So - being paid fortunes would probably keep any 'consultant' happy to say what their client WANTED the world to hear - and more especially if that voice was 'licensed' to say what their clients asked them to.
Now that I am on other side of the world - my feelings haven't changed in almost a decade. It's my convicted belief JB's parents have a deep and very dark (inner) knowledge. Money and political punch go a long way to absolution or condemnation. Poorer, or lesser known folk stand virtually no chance. In the end, logic (to all of us, rich, poor, educated or from Mars) doesn't cost a dime. And I wasn't paid to conclude - simply to read, learn, discover and determine as I'm free to do.
In 6 weeks time, JB would have turned Sweet Sixteen - had it not been for wicked wrath, impatience, denial and temper. Bless her little soul.
Wudge: sorry, but your 'media crimetainment' references on Sam Shep, as long and as laborious as I particularly find them, fall into a completely different case altogether. Mistakes happen but cover-ups are planned. And when the gel doesn't bond - nuttin gonna make 'em stick (IMO).
Others on NG side: accept and recognize your pov - many points are well explained.
Gosh ... deep inside, I have a personal hunch that when Burke is old enough - he may indeed have a story to tell - it could be the real one ... but in the meantime, while there are ears that may hear and eyes that may see his story - he's saying .... nuttin.
When I go, I want those around me to never 'wonder' ... my own belief as to my eventual slice of heaven is that it will be a mirror of my life on Earth, and yepsie-doodle ... that's not perfect, but it's honest enough
God bless y'all - and esp those who have been real warriors in JB's defense.
PSA
