narlacat said:
QUOTE>>Who'd be feeling scientific at such a time, thinking about preserving a crime scene?<<
Someone who thought they had alot to lose.
Someone who was desperate for the truth to be hidden.
narlacat,
You are correct. IMO the evidence is convincing the Ramseys knew where the body was long before they called 911 at 5:52 AM, and they are hiding the truth.
The 911 call was a 'performance' and the ensuing behaviors pointed to a coverup because the whole morning's activities by the Ramseys were based on a lie -- the whereabouts of Burke during the 911 call. The enhanced final 4 seconds of the 911 tape proved the Ramseys were lying, Burke was downstairs in the kitchen at 5:52 AM and had not been upstairs in bed until 7:00 AM as they claimed. In fact, Burke's bed was fully made, as if he hadn't even slept in it that night. The Ramseys were trying to cover up for Burke even before the investigation had gotten underway on day one.
The endless string of lies, obfuscations, and refusals to cooperate with the investigation, all pointing toward a coverup, substantiate the obvious -- the Ramseys are protecting someone, and it sure to hell isn't an intruder. The Ramseys would get deeply involved in a coverup ONLY if a Ramsey family member was involved in the death of JonBenet.
John admitting he moved the chair from in front of the trainroom door; John admitting the blue suitcase was up against the wall and directly under the window; and John admitting he closed and locked the basement window; all prove John was in the basement prior to the 911 call. None of these conditions existed when Officer Rick French searched the basement at 6:00 AM., so John had to have performed them prior to 6:00 AM.
Since the evidence, directly out of John Ramsey's mouth, proves he was in the basement prior to the 911 call at 5:52 AM and is lying about it, then John surely found JonBenet's body prior to the 911 call. Why else would he lie about being in the basement?
BlueCrab
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