BOESP: "Laying blame for one's actions or inactions on someone else is a manipulation technique and I thoroughly believe that both Patsy and John were manipulators used to getting what they wanted by whatever means necessary. "
And there are so many examples of the Ramseys doing just that. We wanted to cooperate fully with the police but our lawyers wouldn't let us! We never hired those lawyers, a friend of ours arranged the whole thing. It wasn't our idea to tape that disastrous CNN interview, our friends insisted we do it. At one point John Ramsey said in an article that FLEET WHITE told them to do it. The irony! We're not guilty of anything, there's just a big conspiracy against us on a local and federal level. For starters.
Anyway, I don't necessarily put much stock in his opinion, but when the Grand Jury true bills were released, Tom 'Doc' Miller talked to Peter Boyles (who is staunchly anti-BDI), and he seems to fall on the BDI side. Miller is the husband of Judith Phillips, the photographer who was on Dateline last night. Judith is interviewed in PMTP and at some point she was friends with the Ramseys, who she met through her first husband, an attorney or maybe accountant for JR a few years before the murder. She was close enough with Patsy to go on vacation with her at one point, but how much she really knew about the Ramseys isn't clear to me. Obviously she photographed them a lot. Either way, I wonder what she thinks of his theory as someone who knew the family. I'd also like to know how much of this was told/confirmed to him by an outside party and how much of it is just his speculation. Especially the comment about "tremendous jealousy" between Burke and Jonbenet.
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"I believe something happened between Burke and Jonbenet. I don't know what, I wasn't there. But I do know that there's, there (fumbles for words)...were certain signs that, uh, Jonbenet was being abused. In that house. Uh, and then, for whatever reason, I believe that a crime was completed then covered up by John and Patsy. And I believe that firmly because there's no doubt in my mind that Patsy wrote that note. And you don't write...uh, you don't write the War and Peace...notes like that [...] unless you're involved. And she was involved. "
When asked again what the thinks happened after they got home from the White's party, Miller points out the pineapple then expresses doubt on John's story that he and Burke were putting together a toy. Points out that B's birthday was coming up.
"He was one month shy of being 10 years old. And a child under the age of ten can't be charged with a crime in Colorado. So, uh, I don't think they were putting toys together at 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock at night. I don't think that's what was happening. Uh, Jonbenet, we know, was leaving...was wetting the bed and leaving feces in her bed, indications of sexual abuse. Uh, and we know there was tremendous jealousy between Burke and Jonbenet. Uh, we know that he had struck Jonbenet once before, I believe with a golf club. So I believe something went wrong between Burke and Jonbenet. I don't know what. I can't imagine what was going on. But then after that, Patsy and John make a determination that's something's wrong and something has to be covered up. After all, *someone* hit Jonbenet so hard in the head that, as they say, it would have felled a 300lb man. Now, I don't know that Burke could have done that. But we do know a garrote was put around Jonbenet's neck. She was then, either realistically or simulated sexual tortured [sic]. And a ransom note was produced. A tremendous ransom note was produced in Patsy Ramsey's handwriting. And didn't the Grand Jury say, 'failed to protect her'? (After discussion PB reads off charge, Child abuse resulting in death.) Well, and it appears as if Patsy wrote the note. She had something to do with it. John completely backs her up and is willing to sue the world to keep everybody silent, so he's complicit in it." They skip forward to that morning and the 911 call.
PB: "Do you think they heard Burke's voice on that tape?"
TM: "I don't *think.* They did hear Burke's voice. Uh, Burke says something to the effect of, what should I do? What's going on, what should I do. And you hear John's voice in the background saying, we're not talking to you now."
They discuss Burke already being awake when the is "woken up" and not having any questions when brought downstairs to the kidnapping scene.