Tadpole12.
I'm not certain by what you mean: transit zone?
What I reckon is there was a last minute attempt at rearranging a prior staging, with the wine-cellar becoming defacto evidence that JonBenet was kidnapped, i.e. she is not in her bedroom?
This is where the time element surfaces, i.e. with four hours one would expect better staging than that supplied.
Another aspect that I think supports this view is the garrote/ligature device, now ask yourself honestly where in a kidnapping could such a device be used?
Not at all I think. I reckon we are looking at a prior staging dumped into the wine-cellar, a pragmatic move, in an attempt to bolster the abduction scenario?
The garrote/ligature device is simply out of place, it might not even be staging, as Kolar suggests it was part of the killers intention, he/she did it all, it was planned and it worked!
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