I watched the Netflix documentary on this the other day and hadn’t realised the full extent of the horror of what was done to that little girl - the SA with the paintbrush and that someone took the time to actually make a garotte using the end of the paintbrush. I mean why, she was tiny and could hardly fight back! This happened days after my oldest DD was born and I remember it being in the news but don’t remember those details coming out at the time.
Absolutely mind boggling that every inch of that house was not immediately searched when the police arrived in case the ‘kidnapper’ left some evidence. Why would you leave a 9 year old alone upstairs when the kidnapper could still be in the house? The house was large - 6000 square feet. Plenty of places to hide.
Why were Patsy and John’s fingerprints not on the ransom note? First thing you’d do is pick it up to read it? No kidnapper would write a long letter like that while in an occupied house with the risk of being disturbed at any moment.
From what I’ve read now, the theory that she was whacked on the head with something like a golf club (v shape injury) in the basement, where there were apparently fresh urine stains on the carpet (which may have happened when she was knocked out as she lost control of her bladder), and it was thought she was dead initially and it then needed to be covered up to look like an intruder is most likely. Could explain why her genital area was wiped down to wipe off the urine as she wet herself. If she had being previously sexually abused, that would need to be covered up as well hence the staging of the sexual assault and injury to cover up old ones with the paintbrush.
Absolutely the most evil thing I’ve ever heard of. Makes me want to scream at the thought of it even 28 years later!
They were supposed to get on a flight at 7.30am that morning and wouldn’t be able to explain why JonBenet wasn’t with them so had to think fast I guess.
Patsy was definitely up all night. A woman who was all about appearances wouldn’t have not had a shower and put yesterday’s clothes on knowing she had to leave to go on a flight to stay with her husband’s family in a few hours.
Don’t know how you could live with doing that to your own young child rather than ring an ambulance to try to save her after the head injury and take whatever consequences arose from that, a child perpetrator wouldn’t be going to jail although you may lose some social standing if your son killed his sister I suppose, unless you knew that something else would be uncovered which would totally destroy you which could be that ongoing SA would be uncovered IMO.
Weren’t the brother’s toys that he wanted to play with in the basement? Weren’t the Dad’s golf clubs also in a golf bag in the basement and didn’t he ask someone to get them and take them out of the house despite it being winter and his daughter just having been murdered? Did JonBenet go the basement and touch her brother’s toys? Her brother had already hit her with a golf club before. Patsy lied about her being already asleep when they got home that night. Burke was awake too and apparently ‘slept’ through all the chaos after the ‘kidnapping’ being discovered.
There was the issue with the unusual activity with the lights in the house that night and the phone records being wiped as well. The unknown DNA could have been from someone they called in a panic to come over and help them figure out what to do. He could have touched the body or posed her? Was every male in close contact with the family ever DNA tested - friends, lawyers, business partners etc?
One other thing that stuck with me was that Patsy said she got up and went straight downstairs in the morning, after putting dirty clothes on and redoing her makeup, to put coffee on. JonBenet’s room was very close to the parent’s room. I would never go downstairs after getting up in the morning without looking in on my DC, especially so young. Just popping head round the door to check on them. Just sounded odd but she couldn’t say she’d checked on the kids before she went down could she!
They obviously never took safety of their kids seriously anyway because wasn’t the basement window smashed for months and never fixed? That must have had an effect on their heating bill in the winter in such a big house? Would have been cheaper to get someone just to put a new pane of glass in surely.
I think John wants to give it one last shot to clear the family name and Burke of any involvement before he dies. I feel very sorry for Burke actually as even if he was involved in the head injury, he was a child, it was his parents responsibility to protect and him himself if he had behavioural issues, and he certainly does not have any responsibility for what happened afterwards which has probably totally ruined his life more than if he had caused the head injury on it’s own.
Oh, wasn’t the cord used in the garotte taken from a toy plane hanging in the house and wasn’t a page found in Patsy’s notepad addressed to Mr and Mrs Ramsey believed to have been the start of a practice of the ransom note, and in an interview she mistakenly said that was how the note was addressed?
How the fuck they got away with this I don’t know. They were indicted though for causing the death/abuse of a child weren’t they but strangely that was not acted on?