The DNA - for RDI

[BBB167893]

Yeah, and so is the garrote, the 2nd ligature, and the DNA. Y'know, all the crime scene evidence that RDI wishes would disappear. It would be easier for RDI, would it not, to make a case against the parents if all that pesky crime scene evidence (that RDI proposes is either 'manufactured' or 'unrelated') would just go away.

Hey, don't tell me what I know about RDI. I'm an expert in that area. And when I say "transparent," I mean just that. I don't mean that it disappears; I mean seeing it for what it is.

Remember that RDI can only propose, or suggest, that the ransom note, garrote, and 2nd ligature are all window dressing for something else. RDI can't seem to PROVE that even ONE of these items was a prop. We IDI's are supposed to just accept the garrote as prop despite associated petechial hemorrhaging. Thats just an absurd idea to which RDI clings to this day.

You'd get a lot farther if you didn't keep knocking down arguments we don't make. By that I mean the idea that since there was petechial hemorrhaging means that the strangulation couldn't be staged. That was something the aforementioned Norm Early was talking about. Again, you should take it up with him. The argument is that if the killer didn't know JB was still alive, then they could have strangled her without realizing they killed her. Why do you think the fact that the Rs refused to read the autopsy report means so much to us?

Y'know, madeleine's not the only one getting turned off by these word-twisting games...

Meanwhile, RDI can't prove that the the tape, cord, ransom note handwriting, or the blunt instrument used on JBR were even owned by the R's.

Close enough for jazz, as they say where I'm from. Look, I realize that I'm no forensic expert or legal shining light. Never claimed to be. I'm a common man, and that's who I relate to. So we'll see what they think.

 

[BBB167893]

history tells us that we typically don't find out exactly what the plan details were until after apprehensions and confessions.

ahem...

 

[Holdontoyourhat]

You'd get a lot farther if you didn't keep knocking down arguments we don't make. By that I mean the idea that since there was petechial hemorrhaging means that the strangulation couldn't be staged. That was something the aforementioned Norm Early was talking about. Again, you should take it up with him. The argument is that if the killer didn't know JB was still alive, then they could have strangled her without realizing they killed her. Why do you think the fact that the Rs refused to read the autopsy report means so much to us?

Y'know, madeleine's not the only one getting turned off by these word-twisting games...

You're reaching.

Asking for staged strangulation while the evidence states otherwise (petechial hemorrhaging). Honestly, SD, I respect the effort you've put forth on your belief, but you have to go against the evidence to promote this idea. Not only that but you have to disregard the DNA and how it was interpreted by the investigative authority at the time.

...it hurts to be cool...

 

[madeleine]

It was Hunter's assistant Pete Hofstrom who made the "So what if Patsy wrote the note?" comment.
Actually, he was right in one respect. Just because she wrote the note, it DOESN'T mean she killed her. But it DOES mean she knows who did kill her. Otherwise, why would she write the note? And it also means she knew her daughter had not been kidnapped, either. If Patsy wrote the note, she was one of two things. The killer, or someone with knowledge of who the killer was. And what is so frustrating is that none of these things was considered, because all Hunter was concerned about was being sure he could prosecute and WIN. He wasn't really worried about whether the parents were responsible. And what he wasn't willing to do was have the parents arrested, and questioned separately to see if one of them would crack. The police were confident that would happen, but "Mr. Plea Bargain" was not.

If I'd make a top of people who are to blame for this investigation being so f@#$## up Hofstrom would be among the first.:sick:
It's unbelievable what he did.

 

[BBB167893]

You're reaching.

Perhaps I just didn't word it as well as I would have liked.

Asking for staged strangulation while the evidence states otherwise (petechial hemorrhaging).

It's a question of intent, HOTYH. In that regard, I find the law about as ridiculous as you do, but I don't write the laws.

Honestly, SD, I respect the effort you've put forth on your belief,

Much obliged, friend. I feel the same way.

but you have to go against the evidence to promote this idea.

Not at all.

Not only that but you have to disregard the DNA and how it was interpreted by the investigative authority at the time.

I have my reasons for doing so.

...it hurts to be cool...

It will...

 

[Ravyn]

Well about the R's ransom note not being written by PR or JR I'm still waiting to find out from the IDI's why if PR didn't write the RN, did the R's dream team went after Tom Miller...And still the IDI's can't prove the tape and cord didn't walk out with the R's that afternoon or even with Aunt Pam....For the blunt instrument well how the flashlight is brought up alot with the batteries being wiped clean maybe this is the instrument used cause neither side knows that for sure....

 

[Chrishope]

It would be impossible for anyone with 3 functioning brain cells not to think the Rs would be suspects. Anytime a child is found dead in her own home, the parents are going to be suspects.