narlacat said:
I think I remember the Maglite being on the kitchen bench...
If it was the murder weapon why leave it on the bench like that??
I know it's a pretty big thing to try and get rid of but why leave it there...why not in the back of a cupboard in the laundry...or somewhere like the garage so as not to draw attention to it...
I've never understood why the bowl of pineapple was left there either...was it because in the R's panic they just plain forgot it?
The bowl being on the table with PR's prints on it makes it hard to believe there was an intruder...even a familiar intruder, I mean really....its the middle of the night, it's dark...why would JBR have felt comfortable doing that?? well comfortable enough not to scream out etc...even if it was someone she knew well....she had her own flashlight because she was scared at night...
Did the bowl get left there because they didn't realise the autopsy report would show pineapple in her system?
narlacat,
I tend to agree with you. Its unlikely given the attention to staging that the murder weapon would be left on display if it could have been concealed.
That the maglite was wiped clean suggests, as others have hinted, that another
Ramsey may have been in the house at some point and it was this persons fingerprints that were being removed?
I would interpret the pineapple scene as benign, it illustrates
normal household activity, and tells us that JonBenet was still alive at some point.
But there is a lacuna in the crime-scene, or a piece missing from the jigsaw due to the staging, and an attempt to place things back, e.g. maglite.
There is no forensic evidence to indicate there was an intruder, the crime-scene prior to JonBenet's death is that of people comfortable and relaxing after xmas celebrations, probably preparing for a vacation flight.
When we try to join the dots , so to speak, I feel we are connecting probable staging upstairs with activity downstairs, and more staging in the wine-cellar.
The bowl of pineapple was overlooked because it likely played no part in JonBenet's homicide, just as when Burke stated he saw JonBenet walk up the steps into the house on returning from the Whites, this was also similarly overlooked.
JonBenet supposedly being placed in bed with a Red top then a White Gap top tells you there is ad-hoc staging going on, even more striking is that it is an explanation as to why she is still wearing some
day clothing, and not say her Barbie Nightdress, that is she was intended to be redressed at least twice.
So you could conclude she was killed whilst wearing her day clothes, then she was washed down, and redressed, with her hair being restyled to match this particular staging, later all this was revised again down in the wine-cellar.
If the above general outline seems coherent, even if the details are wrong, then it suggests collusion between at least two people, if this were PR and JR, then it would rule out JR acting after the event simply covering up PR's traces as has been suggested.
If JonBenet had died as the result of an accident, then for parents looking for some rationale or explanation to present to the world then the truth would be ideal, and generally there is no murder trial for accidental death.
So to choose to enact multiple stagings within the Ramsey household suggests what is being covered up may be more than an accidental or a common homicide?
