Pardon the interjection...
I sometimes wonder what people will think if it turns out that they didn't do it. The statements made about the parents and how they felt about their child, do not at all match the statements made by friends and family who actually knew them. So strange.
Let's look over facts about how they felt about their child to see if the RDI contributing members should harbor any guilty feelings.
Patsy Ramsey was a perfectionist who busied herself with living bc she was highly competitive. It is also how she dealt with stress. Her mother, at an early age, taught PR about her own viewpoint of men and that as a woman, her sex appeal was her power. PR wanted power and money. She grew to resent John's success in bussiness. It made him a fat cat. Hence, she was a fat cat, too.
Being a fat cat meant that they could do what they wanted to because they were now above the law. Patsy was miraculously cured of cancer and they were multimillionaires with clout.
JonBenet was 3yo when her mother was diagnosed with Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer. For a year, PRs cancer was attacked with harsh therapy, damaging her liver and, more importantly, losing her ovaries and uterus in the process. IOW, her womb was gone. Her very femininity was ripped from her. She was made barren. A barren fat cat who engaged her daughter in exploitive and dangerous ways.
Thus, PR thrust her willpower and energy into her two children. In the summers in Charlevoix, BR took sailing and golf lessons every day. JonBenet had dance, violin, and drama lessons and entered numerous beauty pageants.
In steady increments, JonBenet learned how to please an audience; ie., the judges [her parents]. She learned how to be appealing and became more seductive in her routines. Her custom designed pageant apparel was way over the top. We have all seen the pictures of JB's red lipstick, dressed in Channel inspired attire, wearing her well-trained sultry expressions.
John Ramsey condoned this sensual behavior. He likely enjoyed his young daughter and his beauty queen wife vying for his affection. Patsy spent thousands of dollars on the goal of JonBenet being labeled a beauty queen. She
would win the
Miss America title that her talented and artistic mother missed by a margin.
When Patsy was most vulnerable during her year of Cancer treatments, she was unable to fulfill him and settle his fear of losing her. It was a highly stressful time. It is reputed that JR had an eighteen month long affair, ATT, while, at home, he and JonBenet naturally bonded over the intense fear of losing Patsy. There are interesting clues of JR becoming distant in the Ramsey's Christmas letters of 1995 & 1996.
It was JonBenet's sensuality that Patsy willingly developed. JonBenet was a quick study. She was perfecting the pose that she could hold for up to thirty minutes, according to live interviews with PR. JonBenet was a multi-talented performer. Remember the jazzy gestures she made with her saxophone performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93kBX6U1xu8
Is it any wonder that by the time JonBenet was 6yo, she was being sexually molested by someone in her family? Maybe molested by someone who had recently ended an illicit affair.
The transformation of JonBenet led to a triangulation of father, mother and daughter with the young daughter, eventually, gaining and holding the power.
JonBenet's parents loved her to death when they gave her the power that she learned to obtain from her own competitive and manipulative mother. Too late, Patsy realized her mistake.
JonBenet's body was found heinously battered, abraded and dead. She was found strangled in her own home with a ligature that contained fibers from her mother's clothing.
Her hymen was partially eroded and her vagina bled. Make no mistake. This was sex crime filled with rage but not all directed at JonBenet. The strip of black tape was placed on her tiny mouth with the connotation of "you will not speak of these events ever" and "you will not speak to me in that way ever again"; also held fibers belonging to her own mother.
A reasonable doubt can be formed that PR purchased both items at McGluckin's Hardware in the month of Dec., as the Rs AEx cc indicates; however, when bundled with all of the other accumulated circumstantial evidence, it fits the CS.
Then, comes the parents' lack of cooperation; the stonewalling, the story telling [lies], the pseudo-grief. As a former beauty queen contestant and journalism major, the socially adept Patsy was certainly prepared for strong defensive efforts that John, whether reluctantly or eagerly, participated in, along with his guilty wife. In for a penny; in for a pound.
John and Patsy, LE and the media unequivocally exposed the Ramsey's own exploitation of JonBenet, as well as their complexity, in the vicious, violent death of their young beauty queen daughter.
OMO