Why I will never believe any IDI did it theory

[CloudedTruth]

I have not seen that stat on child murders - please do share (i mean that genuinely). I completely agree that the Ramsays didn’t help themselves (very similar to the McCanns) But I still struggle to believe that anyone without any sexual reason would use a paintbrush in that way

https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/07/health/filicide-parents-killing-kids-stats-trnd

 

[Sam10098]

Thank you - I had no idea that it was so high - which seems driven by mothers killing babies in the first year - looking deeper into it, it seems that this is underreported and often written about sympathetically. I do stand by my point that most murders of girls and women are by men, but this has opened my eyes to how biased the media can be - on both sides,

 

[proust20]

The question of the motivation for such sustained brutality cannot be overlooked. The head blow and ligature were at least 30 minutes apart. Fit of rage or SA gone too far? The latter explains why JonBenet could not be taken to the hospital, as well as much of the staging. The Rs refused to accept the autopsy results. Patsy did not remember why she called Dr. B several times in one day.

The person who 'discovers' the body is often the killer. John made a mistake by being the one to find JB. The vast majority of murder victims know their killer.

Proponents of IDI must first answer by what means did the intruder(s) arrive at and depart from the R residence. Car, bike, or on foot?

 

[fr brown]

....He [John] was reading Mindhunter by John Douglas....

John might not have been reading Mindhunter by John Douglas. It's true that Steve Thomas reports that Wickman said it was on John's nightstand, but Schiller's Perfect Murder Perfect Town says it was on a bookshelf:

A bookshelf contained such titles as Children at Risk, Children All Wide World Straight Talk, Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising, It Ain’t as Easy As It Looks, and The National Geographic Society Index. On another shelf: The Cancer Conqueror: Incredible Journey to Wellness, New Cures for Almost Every Major Disease, and FBI profiler John Douglas’s 1995 memoir, Mind Hunter [sic]. On a night table were When Goodbye Is Forever: How to Deal with the Death of a Child and Learning to Live Again after the Loss of a Child, by John Bramblet[t].

In their '98 interviews with John and Patsy, LE describes Mindhunter as being "in the house" or "around the house." Neither Ramsey claimed to know about it.

My working hypothesis is that Mindhunter was on a bookshelf (with Patsy's books).

(The title of the Bramblett book is When Good-bye Is Forever: Learning to Live Again after the Loss of a Child.)