Callan, the word 'accident' is very misleading in the JonBenet case.
For example, a true accident would have been if Patsy, while carrying JonBenet upstairs, had tripped on the staris and the child had fallen down the stairs. In that case, no doubt the Ramseys would have taken JonBenet to the hospital.
If you replace 'accident' with the term 'rage attack', you will get a lot closer to what it probably was. For a rage attack is neither premeditated nor a pure accident. Rage attacks can happens on the spur of the moment, all it takes is often only a trigger, and a wetting/soiling accident (which btw could have happened before JonBenet even went to bed) may very well have been such a trigger which made an an already stressed-out and tired Patsy fly off the handle.
But whatever it was, the crime scene tells us that something happened to JonBenet in the Ramsey home on that tragic night which caused both John and Patsy to cover it up by staging a scene and concocting a story.
Rash, I'm glad you brought this up.
It seems to be a domestic homicide. It was either accidental if it was done in a rage without intent to kill or it was purposeful. As you, I don't see it as an accident, but an accidental result.
Regardless, why not call 911? I can think of reasons for not doing so such as thinking JonBenet would either die anyway or be a vegetable and the killer didn't want to be accused of killing JonBenet. But at the point the decision was made not to call 911, does it become voluntary manslaughter, negligent homicide, second degree murder????
Then, if she were strangled as a part of the staging while alive, yet the assailant thought she was dead when the ligature was applied, that further clouds things. Is it involuntary manslaughter?
But what if the strangulation evidence comes from two separate actions: jerking and twisting a turtleneck collar or other collar and dragging or shoving JonBenet around in order to get her to cooperate (manual strangulation that doesn't result in complete asphyxiation), followed by the event that injured her head, then followed by staging that left a second set of evidence for ligature strangulation.
Another possibility is the same as sequence as above but the ligature strangulation being a "mercy killing" instead of staging.
I think these conundrums are a part of the reason the DA's office didn't want to prosecute. According to my interpretations of Hunter's remarks (televised and on You Tube video) a case wasn't put together that could show which parent did what and exactly what they did. There are so many possibilites.
I also must say Hunter was a big part of the problem that the investigation didn't go in the right direction at times and I fault him for not assisting the BPD, or so it seems. However, why didn't the BPD go to a judge and request warrants when Hunter refused to do so or did they and a judge refused to?
So many unanswered questions.