rashomon said:
But for example, JB's favorite Barbie nightgown being placed next to her body in the basement would not fit into a scenario where parents had planned to dump her somewhere outside. How would you explain the nightgown?
Profilers have pointed out that parents who have killed their children often wrap up their bodies in blankets, or tuck them in in their beds because there is a psychological 'undoing' mechanism at work.
rashomon,
The
topic title is
The danger of a closed mind and this applies to the views and opinions of Profilers and Investigators.
Consider the damage done by Lou Smit and his Intruder theory, the media promoted it, the tabloids sold in millions, dubious suspects were being flushed out everywhere, even here on websleuths the Intruder Theory morphed into DS did it, or/and NI etc.
Not all Profilers are psychologists and they have to put food on the table, so emotively satisfying rationales such as 'undoing' mechanism or 'adaptive' mechanism are simply behaviouristic truisms or
skinnerisms. While they may apply in some cases, common sense should suggest there may be other more compelling reasons why blankets or nightgowns were present where they should not really be?
JonBenet may have been wrapped in a blanket to prevent cross-contamination of forensic evidence, particularly important if she is to travel in a car.
When you review the where JonBenet's body was discovered bear in mind you are looking at an alleged crime-scene, one which imo, is
staged, anything discovered at the crime-scene is not there by accident, the
stager selected those elements, I would propose if the Barbie nightgown arrived there by accident say by static on a blanket, then the
stager would have simply removed it on the way out, and dropped it somewhere else, a simple thing to do e.g her underwear was removed.
The Barbie nightgown was there because JonBenet was intended to be found wearing it, this was to more fully reflect the staging of a victim being abducted sleeping from her bed, as it was she was still wearing her white gap top, and you can speculate about who removed her black velvet pants and underwear, the Ramseys had to contradict themselves, all three, making statements that JonBenet was carried sleeping into the house, on returning from the Whites, and placed semi-dressed into bed!
The wine-cellar staging was possibly the 2nd if not the 3rd in a sequence, this is why I mentioned JAR's bedroom as a possible intermediate location, someone else had JonBenet dressed in her day-clothes, her hair re-styled, wrapped in a blanket ready for dumping outdoors, but I speculate this was vetoed, and what you see in the wine-cellar is the result of an ad-hoc staging with amendments to try and reflect more an intruder bedtime abduction and homicide.
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