My theory of the JonBenét Ramsey murder

[Meara]

..... @BlueMaven 's possibility of the writer bring ESL also comes to mind. The letter seems stilted, old fashioned and overly formal- similar to foreign language classes and textbooks. Then again, Mrs. Ramsey's pageant experience may of featured formal writing classes with olde fashioned syntax.

We're used to seeing PR in the roles of pageant contestant, mother, and socialite and tend to forget she graduated university with honors (the software prohibits the phrase *** laude!) and had a natural gift for writing. Following her pageant experience, she helped build JR's company, eventually serving as Public Relations Manager IIRC, a role that would have required a lot of writing - formal correspondence, press releases, presentations, and so on. She knew how to change the voice in a piece of writing. If she wrote the note, she may have drawn from film or historical examples, incorporating their more formal diction. As I've described elsewhere, there are striking similarities between the Ramsey ransom note and the one written by Leopold and Loeb in 1924. She may have been familiar with it. Richard Loeb grew up on his family's lavish estate/dairy farm complete with castle, which, by the late 1900s was converted into an events venue and family pleasure park called Castle Farms. She and JR very likely took the children there since it's located in Charlelevoix.

I can see the letter being dictated to Mrs. Ramsey by a male. But.... would Mr. Ramsey be able to quickly go "action adventure" in regards to syntax? How many business executives even watched those movies? Or, would Mr. Ramsey most likely fall back to "business memo format- only essential details" when dictating something in panic?

I'd say he was capable. Don't forget, JR was fond of action adventure novels and movies. Remember the movie posters in the basement? He and PR had a drop-down movie screen installed in the ceiling of their bedroom suite and a bookcase full of films on VHS.