The Rn is telling us something about the perp. I think you are correct in your assumption of a "foreign" idea. The note writer changes styles several times, this is an effort to conceal which is actually revealing. We all perceive things from our own life experiences. Each time it changes the writer has to fall back on life experiences to know where to start again. The RN seems to have several
This person does have some knowledge of foreign matters and makes references that prove they are not that well informed-in other words it is second hand knowledge. Not life experience knowledge. He has observed others or read about the situations.
Thanks for taking the time to look at the RN rather than dismiss it as bogus. For what it's worth, I think that I know why these anomolies exist. Firstly my IDI was young, < 20, fit and full of himself. Secondly, he was a 'bad boy' who got away with many things overseas in his 'adopted' home, where he was protected from punishment, but he was US born and bred. He was still afraid of being caught in the US where he knew he would have been punished, but cocky enough to believe he could get away with it. He bolsters his courage with drugs and uses before and during the murder, and this may have been the reason why she was killed.
Person claims to be a group and phrases things like a group is involved with words like we, they, etc. The letter writer proves they are acting alone however when they say" I will call." If a group is involved the reference would have been we will call. The idea a group is not involved occurs when the writer confesses in a singular form "I". He slipped up and forgot his own cover story when writing the note. The length of note also is telling. A great deal of it deals with direct threats to JBR. The note was written to justify (in the killers head) the reason the parents are going to have a dead child. There is a need to explain things. The writer claims to have the home watched and that also is to give the illusion of a group. A group would not ever allow a writer to use the 1st person reference in a note as it would place far to much credit or blame on a single person. While using pen and pad from the home might be used by a kidnapper to lessen direct evidence tying them to crime, it is unlikely such a lengthy note would have been memorized and then written as planned. It would get shorter not longer.
The RN is most definitely an after thought to the original crime-murder.
Where he comes from factions spring up, morph, split and merge almost daily. It's a system whereby a few people will join forces to achieve an aim, supporting either a long held cultural ideal or even just for short term personal gain. In other words, total caos.
The more complicated the theory is and the more people involved the less likely it is true. Especially now 14 years later. This was a lone person and no group ever planned this or participated.
If you look carefully at the letter 'a' in the note I would say the writer was trying to disguise his writing. It changes several times from appearing like a typewritten "a" to a handwritten 'a' ( without the upward tail). The size of the 'a' is different and it even looks like they went back and added an upward curve to some of the 'a's. Writing the letter 'a" typo style is not the authors normal way of wring an 'a'. There is block print and even very messy script, shaky and slanted differently. Someone was trying to disguise their normal script and even vocabulary. I think the author used the word attache and was proud of himself as he perceived briefcase to be an American term and he was smart enough not to make that reference. He is a foreign faction remember. The word is very plainly, almost neatly written with the French ' in the proper place. They was no monitoring the house as the instructions are very hard to read and almost illegible the writing is so messy. If delivery of the money could be sped up those instructions would have been clearly written. The greed to get the money would have made sure the writer wrote legibly. There was no intent of ever collecting any money.
There was a plan to cover up and confuse.
He was educated fairly normally in the US till around his early teens when he 'went off the rails' and then also began spending time overseas almost totally unsupervised and without constraint. There was some attempt to continue his education overseas but this failed.
He is addicted to violent movies and video games and gets many of his behavioral traits from these. Where he lives is in the midst of a bloody civil war in which he has participated.
I think he spent time in the house that afternoon/evening and the note was intended to cause confusion (not mentioning which daughter). I have still not dismissed the idea that it may have been dictated to PR over the phone. I'm not sure if she was meant to be murdered or whether it was originally intended that she be kidnapped. The small amount is due to his desire to get away quickly, back overseas, so he needed the Rs to be able to get the funds in a couple of hours. The odd amounts is to pay off his 'associates', who are probably old school buddies or extended family.
This is where I have a problem with an RDI. If the parents are going to stage her body in the home they are going to look more guilty than ever if a RN is found.
The killer could have not written an RN and that would have made the parents look guilty.
If guilty and having some time to dispose of the body they are in a better position to claim their daughter was kidnapped before being murdered. The body being found at the home could not have been the plan if an RDI is true.
The whole RDI idea that the Rs wrote the note to deflect attention makes absolutely no sense, because it did exactly the opposite.
Why did the killer NEED to write an RN? What was satisfied by writing the note, what did the killer gain by doing this? I don't think after killing their daughter the killer became remorseful to the point that he didn't want the R's to be blamed so he leaves an RN to help them prove they are innocent.
The note was written from his knowledge of watching violent movies and video games and was intended to taunt the Rs. The message is there as to exactly what this is all about, and JR MUST have known, or at least found out subsequently. The threat is if you fail to support us (overseas) we can easily come over here and kidnap/kill your children. It is to do with JR's position with LM and a subsidiary of this company that works in foreign countries, manipulating the balance of power to benefit the US.
The remorse was that he realised that he had done something there that meant he would not be able to return to the US for fear of being caught. He tried to diminish it by reclothing her and covering her up, kind of showing respect in his mind.
