No intruder would have written that note. Anyone planning to kidnap JB would have brought a prepared note with them - and it would have been typed. The fact that it was written in disguised, inconsistent handwriting on Ramsey paper with a Ramsey pen means that it was almost certainly a scrabbled together, spontaneous letter born of desperation & intent to mislead.
An intruding pervert would never have hung around like that - he’d have taken her and gone. The forensics indicate that she was abused while unconscious so, if an intruder didn’t need her awake, why leave her at all? Anyone coming in to take JB, for any reason, would have done exactly that - not hung around writing long letters, cleaning her body, searching for fresh underwear and then hiding her in the most remote part of the house.
No way. It was someone in the house. Or, maybe, two as many believe.
Even if Burke abused her then hit her with the torch, he didn’t write the letter, fashion the garrotte or clean her - that had to be either of her parents, or both working together.
I find this absurd, quite frankly, and the CBS documentary pushing this explanation is farcical.
In what universe do two parents find their child unconcious and, rather than call an ambulance, finish her off by garrotting her, violate her with a paint brush and then leave her dumped like so much rubbish in the basement?
These two brainiacs then stage a failed kidnap plot/sex crime scenario which they then immediately ruin by calling the police in the early hours. The ransom letter achieved nothing at all for them...so why bother to write it - on their own paper, with their own pen with their own hand!
Would it not have been easier just to put her at the bottom of the spiral stairs and say she fell if they wanted a cover up? Who the hell disguises an accident as a murder?
Please.
And why stage a kidnap, leave a letter full of threats to kill if the police are called - and then immediately call the police?
As Judge Judy says, if it makes no sense, it’s because it’s not true. But that ransom letter was written for a reason.
I think this is what happened:
John went to JB’s room after Patsy was asleep. She got upset (of course) and maybe became noisy in her distress. John takes her downstairs to placate her - feeds her pineapple and makes himself tea, as a cover in case Pasty comes down. He tries to calm JB but can’t. She says she’s telling Mummy and in a panic, John hits her with the torch causing immediate unconsciousness.
He thinks she’s dead. This head injury was not survivable so her breathing may have been instantly supressed & her pulse faint, so a panicked man could think this.
He knows his abuse of her earlier could be evident on her body so he cleans her pubic area, discards her underwear and sneaks upstairs for a fresh pair. At this stage he is planning a “she fell down the stairs in the night” accident scene.
He then worries that systemic abuse of her might be evident internally & his DNA may even be inside her body so he changes his plan to one of “sex pervert broke in”. He takes her to the basement, uses the painbrush to try and remove traces of himself by causing bruising & bleeding (which wouldn’t have worked if she was dead, but he didn’t know that) and stages the garrotte to make it look like a sex crime. This actually kills her, which he may or may not have known.
He then goes back to bed having hidden her body but continues to worry - what if the autopsy finds XYZ? He’s no expert, but he doesn’t want to risk it. Seeing that Patsy is fast asleep, he goes back downstairs and writes the ransom letter - his best bet is to make sure that JB’s body never ends up being autopsied at all.
He wants to get her out of the house so fills the ransom letter with dire threats if the police are called, hoping that this will cause Patsy to be willing to delay calling 911. He will send her & Burke to a friends house while he “collects the ransom money” but is really hiding JB’s body far from home.
But, Patsy, in her panic gets to the phone before he can stop her, and his plan is foiled.
What people hear as “We’re not talking to you” at the end of the 911 could have been him saying “Who are you talking to?” as he comes into the kitchen as she’s hanging up. He may have tried to tell her to call the White’s first, or something, but in her state she got confused.
