ANGRYWOLF said:
I think a drunk Patsy would have made it less likey she would have been able to harm her own child and fabricate a story like the one we've been told...
Bed wetting happens all the time ..some children are persistent bedwetters..yet their parents don't kill them.That theory simply doesn't..if you'll pardon the pun..hold water...:laugh:
Patsy needn't have been stone drunk to have snapped and lost it, but is an undisputed fact that alcohol (even small amounts for persons who are very susceptible to its effects) can unleash aggression in people.
It is also a fact that alcohol and other drugs play a huge role in many domestic violence cases, sometimes driving people to do things which they never would have done when sober.
I think Ames' # 201 post on this thread (glad you've come over here on Websleuths, Ames!) is very convincing. Great post, Ames!
Angrywolf: of course bedwetting is widespread and most parents don't harm their children because of that.
But sadly, when children are killed by their parents, it is often bedwetting/soiling issues which triggered parental rage.
At that point in the discussion Ramsey advocates often bring up: "but JB had been a bedwetter for years, so why should Patsy suddenly snap and lose it?"
But those few glasses of wine Patsy had at the Whites' party could just have been the reason for Patsy acting out of character.
Aside from that (I've read this several posts here but don't have the exact source), the Ramsey housekeeper LHP said that Patsy sometimes took JB to the bathroom after such accidents, and that JB screamed in there, so Patsy probably was punishing her.
The dead body was also dressed in far too big (size 12) underpants, which were obviously put on JB after she was dead.
JB's normally wore size 6 panties, but the size 6 panties she wore to the Whites' party have never been found.
So why have these panties been removed by the stagers of the scene? The conclusion one can draw is that they contained forensic evidence.
Suppose it was toilet rage which was at the origin of the tragic events on that night, I believe that it was not only a wetting, but a soiling accident which triggered Patsy's rage.