"I could buy that - that Patsy would cover for John - reading her Christmas message, it really makes you see how perfect she needed her life and family to be, I think it is reasonale to think 'maybe' the thought of the rest of her family being torn apart on top of JonBenet being killed was too much to handle- and she agreed to the uthinkable. OR she was covering for Burke - which I hope isn't true."
As you can see, Jessie, in a way, her motives might have been, to her, anyway, altruistic.
"but WOW that would be one wacked out mother."
A lot of people think she was mentally ill. I won't say one way or the other, but some of her behaviors indicate she was in the grip of something that was too powerful for her to fight. She might have been addicted to the drugs she was taking for her ailments. I don't know, and I want to make that clear, but if so, she wouldn't be the first. It happens, even when we don't mean for it to happen. (I lived with pain killer addiction. Not myself, but a good friend. I won't say who, because they deserve their privacy. That's all I'll say.)