vicktor said:
To reply to some of the probabilities mentioned by SoloSam,
One suspect had very similar handwriting to the note. It was at least as good as Patsy's, to the untrained eye. Grammar and spelling were also similar.
What suspect? Who are you talking about?
Patsy is the
ONLY suspect whose handwriting and linguistics match the ransom note.
Spelling? What similar spelling? Patsy purposely misspelled certain words early in the ransom note to try to disguise authorship and suggest a "foreign" terrorist who didn't know how to spell English. She forgot this ploy as the note rambled on.
The intruder likely broke in after the Ramseys had left for the evening. He could find his way around enough to make a plan. Just luck on the dog. Several things could have happened about the outside light.
Right. The intruder spent ALL evening in the Ramseys home, walking around and opening doors through all the rooms and down to the basement, and didn't leave ANY sign of intrusion.
Oh yes, just "dumb luck" on the dog and the outside light. It's amazing how much Ramsey apologists have to explain away in order to create an intruder.
The intruder brought items that he used, except for the pen and paper. Evidence of a finely shredded paper bag was found on JB's bed and elsewhere. This doesn't make much sense coming from the Ramseys, but fits a homeless intruder well.
Evidence of a finely shredded paper bag found on JBR's bed? Where did you hear that?
Fine shavings possibly consistent with the garrote cord were allegedly found on her bed.
A homeless intruder? Puh-leeze. Why would a homeless intruder come in and kill JBR, gently molest her, and then write a very educated three page ransom note for no money and no purpose.
Motive, motive, motive. A homeless intruder has none ... no motive to murder OR to stage a crime scene in an effort to cover up what really happened. A Ramsey did.
With a little poking around he may have been able to find some of John's papers, or check stubs. Or... he may have read the book by an FBI profiler that featured 118 cases. Its curious that the note writer specifically cautioned against contacting the FBI as if he knew it would come into play.
People break into houses all the time and commit crimes and don';t leave any evidence. Maybe a few scalp hairs, mixed in with everybody's.
Once again, this homeless intruder poked around for HOURS and left no trace? Did he think to wear paramedic's gloves? Yeah, most homeless people keep a pair of hygenic gloves in their hip pocket.
He couldn't have written the ransom note or formed the garrotte, or done all the staging like tearing the duct tape, with regular cold weather gloves on ... they are too bulky.
The intruder didn't know JB would scream, but common sense indicates it would be hard to hear 2 and 3 floors up.
The fibers in around the knot could be from transference when Patsy knelt over JB. If, as you pointed out, the body was found early by LE, the fiber questions could have been eliminated. Seeing fibers there does seem unusual, but not every piece of evidence is going to make perfect sense.
Transference might explain Patsy's red fibers if they had been found ON the garrote knot, but it does not explain why they were found entwined IN the knot.
You're right. "Not every piece of evidence is going to make perfect sense" when trying to exhonerate the Ramseys. In fact, NONE of the actual evidence makes sense if you believe the Ramseys are innocent because that's where the evidence leads ... to the Ramseys.
Yes, the probability that someone could break in, and not be discovered and commit the crime is very low, but its greater, IMO, than any scenario what involve the Ramseys. Just look at how this murder compares to the thousands of murders that have occured since. There are no doubt 100s, and 100s of unsolved murders, but very few with all the unusual and provocative elements of this one.
Like Ivy said, not ONE unsolved murder has the elements of this one because the elements don't fit together. That's one reason the FBI and LE know the crime scene was staged and not representative of what actually happened.
If the crime scene was staged, then that means someone tried to cover-up the reality of what happened.
Why would a homeless intruder stage a crime scene? What possible motive could he have? He commits his crime and he's gone. But the Ramseys would have motive to cover-up something to protect someone in the family. The Ramseys had access, motive and opportunity.
The Ramseys covered up what really happened to JonBenet.
IMO