Everyone is different but i find it helps to imagine it in your own family. Or if you don’t live with family, think back to when you did. Imagine you wake up and find one of your family members dead, apparently murdered. Do you stand there and go
hmm, must have been so and so, afterall he accidentally hit them in the face last year with a golf club! Case closed! Now, to stage this as a kidnapping and write a three page ransom note! and then get all manic writing this convoluted note? realistically you’d most likely inform everyone else and figure out what happened, it would take about five seconds to know 100% if someone in the house did it intentionally or unintentionally. I think Burke was *just* a kid, he wasn’t capable of sexually abusing, strangling, bludgeoning etc his sister, staging a kidnapping scene, writing a ransom note, and fooling his parents as they grill him on why his baby sister is dead. It’s just ridiculous to think they wouldnt ask him and immediately tell if he was lying. Burke, Jonbenét is DEAD. Did you do this? His answer would reveal the truth even if he tried to lie. So if he did not do it, why would they act as if he did? Makes no sense imho.
I’m not even too sure how plausible the whole BDI and R’s covered up for him thing is. It still sounds pretty whacky to me, like a lot of trouble to go through over an accident or crime he couldn’t even be charged with. Everyone says oh but maybe they didnt know he couldnt be charged? All it would take is a phone call to find out, they were connected to so many people, come on. It doesnt really ring true to me that Burke did it (accident or otherwise) and then their next thought is “plot ze pretend kidnapping!
”. Considering the amount of power they displayed by doing much of whatever the heck they wanted despite the police, even if Burke did it, i think they would just pay everyone off and leave the state or country and avoid the consequences if any were to land on Burke or on them. The whole kidnapping thing is kind of insane, lately i’m leaning towards Patsy being kind of deranged and maybe plotting this whole thing in her head for years possibly.
Anyways i watched some of the more recent John interviews thenother night and they left me feeling really weird. In one sense i felt sad that he has gotten so old, not just his numerical age but he really acts old now, super slow mentally compared to 96+ you can tell he thinks much slower and in simpler ways and has forgotten things and has a bit of that disinterest in things ive seen in old people, like they already start checking out so to speak. I guess it made me feel sad also because i’m around Burke’s age and it hurts to see my own family aging. But besides these feelings i was left confused by it. If it was Patsy and John knew all along, but was innocent, then why now after she has passed and he has remarried does he still push IDI relentlessly? Hes not in his peak business years, he knows his reputation is already ruined, the motivations he had in 96 are totally different now, yet he still sticks to the script. Is it because he was part of the whole coverup and can’t admit it?
Another thing, although aging can have obvious cognitive impacts on people, i felt like the John i saw in those recent interviews wasn’t such a bright guy like i felt he was before. In the 90s and 00s interviews he seems so incredibly self controlled that it almost gets creepy like his eye contact and the way he thinks his words over before speaking, it gives an impression of intelligence and that he is only letting the tip of the iceberg visible, but in the recent ones i felt like what you see is what you get, not much more going on in there. This made me wonder, could Patsy have actually done it all herself and fooled John? I can’t stop thinking of what Linda Arndt reported about his mood being cordial etc and then suddenly changed to nervous and disturbed after he was unaccounted for for a time. What if he woke up (unaware of the night’s activities) and Patsy is immediately going balls to the wall kidnapper story, but he instantly thinks it’s just Patsy in a psychotic mood, maybe he had seen similar instances before, so hes almost amused by it all like go ahead, call the police, let’s see the drama unfold! Maybe he thinks JBR is safe and sound with Patsy’s mother or something and it’s all a ruse. But when 10am comes and the fake kidnapper call never comes, and he sees Patsy is lookig seriously distraught like something bad has really happened, did he then go searching the house thinking soemthing happened, JBR is here? Did he find her, dead, and realized this is way more than a dramatic display, Patsy has really gone off the deep end? Maybe he was concerned for how he would look, had she tried to frame him? Their son? Remember we dont even know what the scene might have been, it could have been different if Patsy staged one thing and then John discovers it and says not so fast Patsy, you arent going to throw this on me or Burke! Yknow?
Idk it’s very hard for me to imagine the scenario where Patsy accidentally kills JBR and tells John and hes like alright… you murdered our daughter, fire up a pot of coffee lets write a ransom note! ahhh this case is so crazy.
