trixie said:
I think John and Patsy were trying to find alot of ordinary things "strange" because they wanted to throw suspicion onto someone, (maybe anyone), else. They did cast suspicion upon the Whites in several ways. I just think this was part of the CYA.
Ooo, ooo, can we turn this into the irrational-John-and-Patsy thread? Because I have many examples of how the both of them claim in their 1998 interviews that many things struck them as weird and strange and abnormal, things which make them out to be strangers in their own house, potentially positively
surrounded by people they, in retrospect, believe wanted to kill them.
My current favorite is John, the Kleenex box, and the uncashed check.
LOU SMIT: This is also another picture, picture 416, which also shows the same bowl, only it shows the gingerbread house, and there's some Kleenex on there and things of that nature. So I don't know. Is that the gingerbread house that the children were making?
JOHN RAMSEY: Yeah. It looks like it. This was like in -- Patsy would know. I'm not sure why a Kleenex box is there either. That's not normal for a Kleenex box.
LOU SMIT: What do you say about that?
JOHN RAMSEY: Well, I guess it doesn't belong on the kitchen table. I don't know where it came from, but that's not where it ought to be.
Do we have a giant rolleyes icon available? Because I am sure there cannot be one big enough to convey how ridiculous John's statement is. Oh my god, Kleenex do not belong on a kitchen table! KLEENEX DO NOT BELONG ON A KITCHEN TABLE!!! JonBenet's killer must have brought it in.
On the other hand, apparently, uncashed checks belong where? Why, the average American family keeps its checks in with the dinner dishes, of course.
LOU SMIT: Perhaps 66 is a photograph of a check. Do you recall that?
JOHN RAMSEY: Yeah. I had in effect loaned Jay that money, when I bought his building. And he paid me back. I just hadn't deposited it.
LOU SMIT: Do you know where that was located?
JOHN RAMSEY: I think that was, looks like it was the dish rack in the back hallway, right there. About that little table.
LOU SMIT: Okay.
JOHN RAMSEY: Some checks or something on the table.
Curiously, the intruder theorists who believe JonBenet's kidnapping and murder was for money (especially the Helgoth theorists) neglect to notice that an uncashed check, for an amount large enough to have paid to buy a building, was just sitting out waiting to be taken. And what amount was on the check? I mean, really, theorists, at least
try and imply that the amount was $118,000, thus giving the note-writer a number to shoot for in obviously-available funds
if only John bothered to cash the check.
Oh, wait, no, this would implicate Patsy, who would also have seen the check sitting in her dish rack right where she could not claim she avoided knowing about it. So, all the IDI theorists have to pretend the check was not there.
(ponders the subject and sets out to see just what real-estate transactions Jay Elowsky was making in 1996 and before, that would have required a loan from John Ramsey instead of a bank like any real successful professional restauranteur, and for what amount)
(ponders the subject some more and realizes that with all his divorces and domestic abuse of former wives, Jay Elowsky may have had a less-than-stellar ability to get bank credit, thus making him need to use John Ramsey as a loan shark. And Elowsky is not a suspect in this case....why?)
