I would doubt your source, as tape cannot on its own show 'resistance'. Resistance is not a property of duct tape. Elongation or deformation is. If your source meant elongation or deformation, then lack thereof only suggests that when the tape was placed over JBR's mouth, she did not resist, not that she was necessarily dead.
Even granting that, do you really think a six-year-old kid would not fight? When I was six, it was a battle just to get me to make my bed!
So its a grand assumption to go from vinyl duct tape with a perfect set of lip prints, to a victim who was not alive.
I don't go on assumptions, Holdon. Remember that.
It also defies reason, as RDI tends to do, because tape over the mouth is much more commonly used by criminals to quiet a potentially screaming victim.
Yeah, with multiple wrappings!
If you want to claim staging again,
I do.
then what were the R's attempting to stage?
Well, now that might take a while to answer. Not because I can't do it, but because I need to get to sleep tonight. So let me sum up: an outside killing, something a parent could not do. Now, without the sexual angle, any sort of kidnapping scenario could be applied, but pedophile killers are all the rage now, at least in the media. Never let it be said that I think the Rs are stupid. There's a big difference between being stupid and not knowing what you've let yourself in for. They were smart enough to know that most people let their emotions take over when they hear about kids being molested. That's why we have "Jessica's Law" and the like, and why we ought to.
I thought JR wasn't from the south. Why did the RN author ask JR to 'use that good southern common sense' when he aint got none?
Well, holdon, you seem to be operating on the assumption that this was a premeditated killing. The trouble is, it's ALL over the place, employing the M.O's of pedophile killers, ransom kidnappers, foreign (presumably Islamic) terrorists and left-wing nutjobs, any of which a person watching "Law & Order" would know about. I agree with rashomon, to a point: I believe it was a slip by someone who did NOT have a well-thought-out plan. Think about it: have you ever said something you didn't mean to say? Why not write something you didn't mean to write? happens to me all the time.
But let me explore further. Many books have been written on the psychology of criminals. And a lot of them will tell you that some criminals have an overriding subconscious need to confess. Maybe, (and I use that well) that's the case here, and I'll offer some examples for you. Patsy Ramsey in several interviews, said things that made John's hair stand on end, such as the infamous "two people" gag. Boy, he nearly pooped his pants on that one!
Or, try this. I mentioned how the crime itself is all over the place. Well, so is the note. There are the various transparent references to foreign terrorists you seem to cling to, but other passages (like the known bonus) seem to suggest someone who is known to the parents. Indeed, Patsy and her mom, very early on in the case, named the housekeeper and several of John's co-workers. What does that tell you, Holdon? Even the Ramseys didn't think it was a foreign group, and they certainly had no reason not to, being innocent and all...
Was there any marriage counseling or domestic disputes the neighbors knew about? Was anything showing up at school or at the doctors? Nothing?
Well, if you want to be pedantic about it, there's the "Raoul" incident, where John became a raging bull. There's the frequent trips to the school nurse. There's Patsy's unwillingness to share John's bed, according to the housekeeper. There's the shouting matches (poosibly more) in JB's bathroom between her and her mother nearly everyday. Any of this sinking in, or am I just talking to myself? Let me be even more frank, Holdon. The average suicide bomber has no history of any kind of violence. Let me hit a little closer to home. Ten years ago come March, it will be ten years since a kid in my hometown was blown up by a mail-bomb. The bomber had NO history of any kind, not even a parking ticket. Yet he blew up someone he never met.
The RN is very specific on what JR was supposed to be doing that morning. You can probably recite everything JR was expected to do according to the RN. The RN was very thorough on the sequence of events, and was very clear on practically every point.
CLEAR?! Are you kidding? You must be reading a different note than the rest of us, which would explain a lot.
The author makes implicit and explicit references to both status and nationality, and closes the RN with a political salutation 'Victory!'
Explicit reference to nationality? WHERE?! It says small foreign faction, which everyone in the no dismisses. Does it say "People's Liberation Front of Palestine?" "Irish Republican Army?" "Islamic Jihad of Syria?" "Mujeheddin-e-Khalq of Iran?" "Japanese Red Army?" All of which are REAL organizations.
According to you, instead of extracting a pattern and a personality from the evidence,
Ah, but I have.
we should take all the evidence, toss it in a blender, turn it on, and claim RDI.
You got it just the other way, 'round, Holdon. You just described what we AND the FBI thinks the Ramseys did.
PR didn't write the note. And there are more than one ABFDE CDE's agreeing with that.
I can't find any that say that. At most, they say they can't say in court she wrote it. Same thing, legally.
Let me be even more succint. Let's you and me throw away the quaint, secular notions about "innocent until proven guilty" and admit to what no one else seems to want to admit: juries are made up of people, the same as you and me. And at the end of the day, they, not the experts, would decide the value of all of the evidence put before them. And when those people saw this:
http://www.acandyrose.com/02182003dh911motion.pdf what do you think they would say?
If you want your murderous plan to backfire, start by leaving a handwritten note that you wrote at the crime scene. Then make it unnecessarily long. Then add little tidbits in the note that direct investigators to your group. Thats what PR did, according to you.
(As Christopher Walken): Just what part of that do you not understand? (Normal voice):
There are enough "smoking guns" in this case to arm a squadron of SFF.
All I'm missing is the proverbial busload of nuns.
If there was a smoking gun, there would've been an arrest. No arrest, no smoking gun.
if there had been a smoking gun against ONE person, there would have been an arrest.
I'd make it look like an accident. NOT like a capital murder
Yeah, but that's you. (DISCLAIMER: the following is my own spitballing.)
Okay, Holdon. We know what you might do, and I say might, because I seriously doubt the majority of us typing here are staring down the barrel of a long prison sentence with daily visits from "Bubba" with a plunger in his hands and an "abandon all hope" look on his face. But you are not Patsy. I won't ask if you have children, Holdon, because it's none of my business. But most people don't turn their kids into miniature showgirls. From the time JonBenet was born, Patsy Ramsey never stopped telling anyone who would listen about how her daughter was destined for greatness. Typical behavior from most parents, of course. But Patsy did her damnedest to make it come true, whether JB was ready for it or not. In other words, her daughter was not going to be just another girl. Heck no, man! That would not be proper. Only the best for Jonbenet. An admirable goal, no denying. But like everything else, you can take ambition a bit too far, especially when you fail to ask yourself the important question: is it for your child's glory, or yours? The line can become blurred, even accidentally. When people are determined to put someone on a pedastal, they can become fierce against anyone who naysays, even if it is the pedastalee. JonBenet was destined for greatness. Nothing else would do. Failure was not an option.
So cut forward to the night it happened. JonBenet, for all anyone knows, is dead. From common household domestic violence? Hell, no! Not good enough for a future Miss America! Patsy had seen to it that JB was spectacular in life. She HAD to be spectacular in death. A child beauty queen murdered by foreign terrorist pedophiles right under the noses of her rich, connected parents? How cool is that!
And that's not just my opinion. I can sense the odd looks from people reading this asking "where is he getting this from?" The answer is from Michael Kane, the head special prosecutor. In 2002, he said that one of the reasons he thought Patsy did it is because the staging was so overdone. His exact words, quote: "it was a very theatrical project and Patsy is a very theatrical person." More importantly, he said: "This is a woman who LOVES being the mother of a dead beauty queen." She has what she always wanted: international fame (or infamy; to most people of this mindest, it really doesn't matter. Look at the various schoolroom shooters in this country if you don't believe me). She's the ultimate victim! A MAGNET for sympathy! And being "targeted" by those "nasty police" makes her DOUBLE the victim! it's an exquisite deal! Even if she had been convicted, there would have been people still fighting for her! Look at Mumia Abu-jamal. Stanley "Tookie" Williams. Jeffery MacDonald. Darlie Routier. Convicted murderers all, yet objects of sympathy for very vocal groups rallying support behind them.
If history teaches us anything, it's that certain spectacular personalities can be worth more dead than alive, and I'll give you some examples: witness the cult of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, how Fidel Castro turned an incompetent, murdering coward into an international martyr for independence and youthful rebellion. Witness the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a modern-day King Arthur cut down in the prime of life because her dared to stand up for the little guy (that's the story!). And I could go on and on.
Holdon, before you think this the delusional ramblings of a crackpot, not long ago, there was a poster very much like yourself, who would fight me on any and every point. The very summation you just read nearly won him over, by his own admission. He was at least willing to give my analysis some thought. That's more than some people I know have done.
(The preceding summation reflects the personal opinions of SuperDave, and do not necessarily reflect the views of anyone else.)
By the way, manual strangulation and chronic abuse are RDI myths. They are imagined events that are only supported by opinions of those who were hired by the tabloids.
To wit:
that is just a load of cr*p and I think you know it,Hold.The forensic evidence wasn't imagined,just because *you say so.Dr Werner Spitz says she was manually strangled by her shirt collar FIRST.He would be able to tell that from the marks on her neck,and esp. from that thumbprint that was there.That is hallmark of someone being out of control-and in a rage.
And specimens of cells veiwed under a microscope most certainly can,and did,show signs of chronic infiltrate into the cells...which means chronic abuse.
That's telling him, JMO!
Why do you say 'bingo' as if looking at the parents was proven to be right. You know they weren't even arrested, right?
I think the person meant that it didn't fool him, Holdon.
Does RW make all such statements before any forensics are even done??
He was doing his job, Holdon, at which he knows a lot more than I do. That being, profile the note. Like he hasn't seen a million ransom notes in his career, right? In fact, I would advise you to read something else he said, Holdon, because he seems to have the "no history" people like yourself in mind:
"Well, as much as it pains me to say it, yes, I've seen parents who have decapitated their children, I've seen cases where parents have drowned their children in bathtubs, I've seen cases where parents have strangled their children, have placed them in paper bags and smothered them, have strapped them in car seats and driven them into a body of water, any way that you can think of that a person can kill another person, almost all those ways are also ways that parents can kill their children."
Try that.