A best-fit analysis of the facts and circumstances related to the death of JonBenet Patricia Ramsey
And now, the Denoument: Solving the Tensor
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And now, the Denoument: Solving the Tensor As promised, we are now ready to perform the final step in our best-fit analysis. We’ll conclude by collecting all the evidentiary items previously noted to validate the hypothesis of causal events we now present. As we’ve progressed it has become evident what hypothesis, generally speaking, we will assemble. What follows is the unique set of events required to make the evidence fit in its most probable causal configuration: The Ramsey family was severely dysfunctional. PR exhibited symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder with features of Anti-Social Personality Disorder (both Axis II) co-morbid with Grandiose Delusional Disorder. We lack sufficient information to assess with confidence the likely mental state of JR or BR, though indications of Conduct Disorder for BR and Narcissistic Personality Disorder for JR exist. A daughter named JonBenet Patricia Ramsey was the biological daughter of JR and PR and was six years old at the time she expired just before midnight 25 December, 1996. Their son, Burke Ramsey, was 9 years old and lived in the same residence. JBR was entwined in an ongoing incestuous relationship with BR that we are unable to precisely define. BR was not responsible for her death. The Ramsey family returned home the evening of 25 December, 1996 at approximately 9:30 p.m. and all were awake. The parents retired immediately to their bedroom after likely reading to both the children and JR likely spent a few minutes with BR helping him assemble a toy. This toy assembly event was likely very brief. BR and JBR appeared in the family dining room and kitchen about 10 p.m. 25 December, 1996 where BR fetched dishes and silverware within his reach but beyond JBR’s. We suspect that this night-time snack was a common event for the two of them. He or they placed the dishes and silverware on the table, served tea and pineapple, and enjoyed a private snack. BR and JBR departed as BR turned the light off. BR and JBR returned to JBR’s bedroom where an inappropriate, incestuous encounter occurred. At this time, BR engaged in acts resulting in the bleeding of JBR’s vagina and the tearing of her hymen. He also likely attempted to insert an organic plant material into her vagina, possibly a piece of paint brush handle he had previously whittled or just a piece of a paint brush handle. BR likely also digitally penetrated JBR. BR departed JBR’s bedroom and retired to his own. It was approximately 10:45 p.m. At approximately 11:15 p.m. PR put her premeditated plan of action into play and entered JAR’s room adjacent to JBR’s. JR reaching a sleep state was likely the exigible condition for action. PR premeditated the murder of her daughter, JBR, at least 3 weeks prior to JBR’s death. The motive was derived of a psychiatric, clinical indication not examined here. PR was likely also clinically depressed, a feature often seen with the disorders noted. PR attempted to create a theatrical and histrionic crime scene in which, in her mind, the evidence would point to a sexually motivated attack by, to her preference in deception, Bill McReynolds. The plan concocted was likely planned to coincide with the date of McReynolds’ daughter’s abduction years before and involved a sexual assault and strangulation using what PR surmised would appear to be a weapon characteristic of a sexual offender. PR likely researched sexual sadism and the use and construction of a garotte through books and other written material but had no prior experience doing so. PR previously created wire examples of the knots she would use to kill JBR, an idea borrowed from an old boatswain mate’s (U.S. Navy) trick. PR was likely aware of the inappropriate relationship between BR and JBR and used this to implicate Bill McReynolds (the plan being that forensic evidence would point to him as the one who created the sadistic strangulation scene – further corroborated by BR’s ongoing sexual relations with JBR). However, as we shall see, this element may not have existed if PR’s plan was for the remains to disappear. We will discuss that shortly. In a turn of events not terribly surprising for PR, JBR wet herself either during or immediately after her sexual encounter with BR. PR discovered the wetting when she entered JBR’s room to carry out her plan. Regardless of the exact timing, the wetting occurred in her usual bed. PR’s plan involved a pre – text of a meeting, possibly with Santa Claus, to draw JBR quietly to the basement as her plan required to avoid detection by other family members. Before entering JBR’s bedroom to do this, PR entered JAR’s room and fetched a thin white rope and black duct tape from inside a brown paper sack. Outside JBR’s room she used a knife she had previously fetched from the kitchen to cut rope that she would use later to asphyxiate JBR. One of two scenarios is most likely: Either a stick appropriated by BR and found in the bedroom consequent to the supra sexual encounter was selected, a minor change in her original plan, and seen by PR as an attractive alternative to what she had planned to use herself, whatever that was; or, PR knew of BR’s ‘toy’ and knew where to find it, or found it in JBR’s room and incorporated into her plan previously. PR finally entered the room with the black duct tape and rope and placed both on JBR’s bed while she cleaned JBR up. JBR was then quietly and happily pre- texted off to the basement for her secret meeting with Santa. PR likely conceived her next actions as preparation for an eternal sleep; concluding the spiritual ceremony with a papoose style wrapping of JBR’s remains using JBR’s favorite blanket. To emphasize the eternal sleep she imagined, PR likely added JBR’s favorite night gown to symbolize that fact. Immured in the basement with JBR, PR put her plan into action by washing the child’s favorite blanket and night gown to prepare a proper death wrap. JBR entered the “wine cellar” with PR as they retrieved the brand-new underwear JBR favored and placed them on her. This pattern of surrounding JBR with items of affection, washed and retrieved in brand-new purity, presaged a seminal event in JBR’s life … her death. PR likely placed a high value on this symbolism. Perforce, a ruse of some kind, likely involving Santa, was perpetrated to restrain the child and prevent a struggle in which PR might lose control of the situation. Control of the murder and everything related to it was of deep psychological significance to PR. In whatever expedient means devised, the child was restrained, likely by black duct tape, to a wood or steel framed chair without padding on the legs or back. PR likely did not at any time that night place a red sweater on the child but rather picked it up and took it into the basement and then placed the red sweater on the seat to prevent any trace of body fluids, whatever they might be, from touching the seat bottom. The sweater made contact to the body in a seated position as would be expected; that is, the sweater made contact with the inner aspect of the crotch and the region of buttocks in contact with the chair by gravity. When wet, it would then likely transfer dye to the inner aspect of the crotch. Again, the stain indicates that the victim, whatever the dye source, likely voided in a seated position. It also likely resulted in an anterior-only wetting of the long johns and underwear JBR was wearing. The location of the restraint was the “boiler room” vestibule near the water heater and partially disassembled duct leading out of the house. PR next fashioned a garotte stick from BR’s stick brought from the second floor or from the paintbrush “tote” on the floor adjacent. PR then proceeded to strap the child to the seat to restrain her, at least one duct tape “strap” being placed on an ankle. PR retrieved her boatswain’s wire and began tying knots, one by one, laying them out. With the victim facing the back, dark corner of the vestibule PR approached her from behind and placed the rope around her neck. And then with a quick side- to-side tightening of the rope looped around the child’s neck the asphyxiation attempt began. Though she was probably instructed to face the dark back of the vestibule and close her eyes so Santa could arrive, the person standing behind her with the rope was no Santa. The child resisted, reaching up to the rope with both hands, and attempted to pull the rope off of her neck prior to the rope becoming especially tight, thus creating a struggle between assailant and victim. No weapon “instrument” or garotte was fashioned at this point. The child lost consciousness after several minutes of strangulation. Believing her victim dead, PR continued her plan. She finished the necessary work on the laundry to clean up the sheets, blanket and nightgown eventually placing them in the dryer. This cycle likely continued well into the night since the sheets were definitely washed immediately before being dried. We estimate a ballpark timeframe of 2 to 3 a.m. for the completion of that task. At some point in the night, the red sweater was taken to JBR’s private bathroom sink. We aver that either belongings of JBR brought to the basement, a portion of the paintbrush used by BR with JBR, or some bodily discharge was transferred to the basement toilet where it was flushed without completely removing the contents beyond the U-trap and into the sewage system. That is, something remained in the toilet and did not flush. This instructive consequence forced a minor change in PR’s plans, compelling her to place certain inculaptory items elsewhere. Ergo, extraneous evidence disposal occurred prior to movement of JBR’s remains. Items may have been hidden in the toilet tank instead of the noted action or in conjunction with it. But most likely these extraneous items that couldn’t be flushed are precisely the items that showed up with the body – indicating that disposal with the body was anticipated. During this time JBR regained consciousness and removed the tape from her mouth, freeing her hands from an ineffective wrist restraint. She also likely loosened the rope around her neck. After a period of at least 5 minutes since the termination of the initial attack, PR was likely startled by a very loud, sudden scream coming from the victim immediately as the tape came off. The sound readily “funneled” through the open duct of approximately 6 to 8 inches in diameter and, pointing almost directly at Melody Stanton’s house, was heard by Stanton at about midnight. It also alerted another neighbor across the street, and adjacent to Stanton, who began watching the house. Responding quickly and outside the planned sequence of steps, PR grabbed a baseball bat likely resting near the golf clubs found in the “boiler room”, raised the bat overhead without hitting the pipes above, and swung the bat at a downward angle connecting with the victim’s head which, as a result of the scream, had fallen back down to her chest. This factor completes the mechanical best-fit by placing the head/neck in a hyper-extended position so that a considerable force and impulse could be delivered without injuring other body parts, such as the face if it were supposed the child were face down against the floor, for example. Fortunately, since no other obvious abrasions or bruises are associated with the reaction to this blow, we know the neck was hyper-extended and the shock was transferred to the body via the spinal column. Combining this with the skull fracture, its position, extent and direction leaves us the unique conclusion we’ve reached here. At minimum, the weight and length of a baseball bat was required, the victim was seated and was attacked from behind by someone standing. The victim was not likely standing as to do so would have placed the head in an unnatural, steep downward gaze (as if semi-conscious, seated). It is also unlikely on the grounds that, given the coroner’s report, some asphyxiation attempt had already been initiated by the time the blow was delivered, making a standing position improbable. Standing further complicates the delivery of the blow as so much impulse was required, thus requiring length for mechanical advantage and limiting the overhead swing radius for a standing position. We are not the first to examine the high impulse values required for this injury and all mechanical analyses we are aware of reach the same conclusion regarding weight and mechanical advantage. To be clear, let us review the reasons why we know the victim was seated and holding a steep, downward gaze: The victim was attacked by asphyxiation prior to the head injury (coroner’s report – very little bruise response) – fits as a downward gaze would be the likely consequence of being semi-conscious or unconscious, assuming a spinal column orientation mostly vertical. The victim received an impulse blow requiring a mechanical advantage which in turn required sufficient overhead clearance to deliver –fits an attacker in the 54 to 68 inch height range. At 47 inches, the victim was too tall to allow a swing of the required length if standing. The victim, as in 1, was previously attacked by asphyxiation (to near death) and it is highly improbable that the victim was standing or kneeling. The victim had no associated, reaction injuries to the very high impulse injury. This means that neither the victim’s face or any other body part impacted anything solid which would have caused a secondary bruise or scratching observable at autopsy. That further means that the neck/head must have been hyper-extended, that is, facing downward, chin resting on chest – fits by virtue of items 1 and 3 and means victim could not have been lying on the floor, regardless of which direction the victim was facing since the victim could not be facing the floor (facial injury) and could not be facing the attacker (forward bludgeon injury, not rear at known angle of attack). Lying on a bed or other padded surface does not resolve the problem either, since the angle of attack, about 35 degrees, would not attain in that orientation. The victim could not have been straddled from behind, and a blow delivered to the head while the victim was lying face down on a bed or similar surface with the head overhanging the side. Though this yields an angle of attack of +35 degrees, it is highly unlikely given the high impulse required, as rubbing and abrasion marks on the lower neck area should have presented. In addition, it is unlikely because the attacker pays a penalty in mechanical force delivered due to the decreased amount of stability offered from such an attack position. Thus, given the amount of impulse already being at the upper extreme of what can be delivered by a bat, we conclude this “padded” face down position to be improbable. Lying on a flooring surface with the head overhanging a step or edge is also improbable, since this disrupts the attacker’s ability to swing the bat and requires a very low swing, whose angle of attack would have been closer to 0 degrees (cylindrical skull bludgeon parallel to plumb line of top of skull). The victim voided, where the chair came to rest, while sitting on something containing red dye (see coroner’s report), as sitting would be the only position by which a red dye stain to the inner aspect of the crotch could attain, but appear nowhere else. The dye source may have been a red sweater found by police in JBR’s private bathroom sink. Conclusion: the victim was seated and holding a steep, downward gaze at the moment of impact. This is a powerful conclusion that will yield much result as we proceed. Up to this point PR was likely calm and methodical, absolutely confident and with no conscience or empathy for the victim. However, after departing from the controlled plan, PR entered into a severe panic and her mental capacity diminished further. Dropping the bat, she resumed her attack against the child by tightening the rope even tighter than before and heaving the victim upward from the seat to enhance the effect. This caused the rope to slip upward on the neck, settle into a position checked by the victim’s head, and created a deep furrow circumferentially on the neck. The heaving action also resulted in the rearward movement of victim and chair gradually out of the vestibule and toward the “wine cellar” and creating a “scraping noise like metal on concrete”. Before the heaving began however, JBR may have fought her mother by grabbing her beaver fur boots on her lower legs which were alternately propped against a middle rung of the chair used to hold the chair to the floor while PR lifted upward with the rope. Only after this would PR pull her legs back and begin the heaving action to prevent JBR from reaching her legs. This geometry and sequence of events indicates that the “wine cellar” door was open at the time JBR expired. The remarkable resistance JBR offered likely stunned PR upon the realization that a six year old child, taped to a chair had almost bested her. We also point out another disturbing indicator that the assailant was a Narcissistic personality: the child was pampered and almost ceremoniously sent to eternity in the ides of the night but once dead treated like lumber. No attempt was made to wipe her urine, to remove the garotte, loosen the ropes or otherwise honor the remains. The brutal and empathy-less manner of handling her remains contrasts sharply with her behavior when the assailant needed to coax the child into her grasp and restraint. The assailant had a purpose, an agenda of their own that took only themselves into consideration. For those reasons we suspect it likely that the psychological impact of the totally unexpected scream from JBR in the dark corners of the basement and the subsequent macabre struggle to regain control of the situation likely produced a trauma possibly producing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder for the assailant. 
The suspect baseball bat carrying a fiber from the “boiler room” carpet, as found outside the house on its north side near the Butler Pantry door. This bat is steel. By appearances, this could be a “Cub”, or child’s bat, whose short length is intended for use by children. However, we have not been able to confirm the actual length of this specimen. Shortly after the heaving action began the victim expired due to left heart failure and she voided at the end of attack position just outside the door of the “wine cellar”. The marriage that could not sustain was annulled and the voices speaking beyond the walls of the house were silenced. The Narcissistic complex still tightly gripping the rope was safely shielded again from the public knowledge of her imperfections, failings, ugliness, perversion and things otherwise less edifying. We cannot determine with this evidence how, but JBR was poised to be that voice speaking beyond the walls of that giant house. And with that neither JR nor PR could abide. The Narcissist in her wouldn’t allow it. She would expose this continuing curse later in the endless defamation litigation brought out to keep the voices silent. For the Narcissist fear and anger are identical, and their greatest fear is the public discovery and display of the full depth of their depravity, so remarkably and adroitly concealed to the public and friends. It is usually the only thing that brings them to a state of mind enjoining serious violence. Narcissists like PR are stunning in how they appear to be truly two different people, both diametrically opposed in belief and behavior. One is seen only by their intimates. The other is seen by all else. They can switch acting roles immediately and in extremes without flinching. They are frightening. They are seldom caught. An internet “sleuth” has suggested the possibility that PR suffered from Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder). While this also fits the profile well, we found it virtually impossible to distinguish DID from the behaviors one would have expected of a guilty party. If someone were, in fact, guilty of a crime, we would expect their attempts to cover up their crime to appear as dissociative actions – because they are – depending on which perspective one chooses to take. But to say that this constitutes DID is a non sequitir. This theory is an example of a circularity problem derived of a non-sequitir. Stating that we can make the distinction based on the fact that the actions “fit the mold” of a child versus an adult speaks to state of mind and doesn’t settle the issue for us. The gist of the argument is that PR was, in many ways, acting out an alternate, child-like personality during the murder sequence and couldn’t recall what this “person” had done. It thus explains the seemingly childish and silly behaviors of the assailant, from the odd pineapple and tea sitting to the bizarre, taunting ransom note, seemingly written by a child who is making no attempt to deceive or cover their actions. As we stated earlier, this appeals to the reader’s desire to try to “understand” how a person could do something so cruel and devoid of empathy. This is typical of people who are not narcissists themselves or who have little or no experience with them. In addition, the poster suggests that this is why the actions taken during the murder were so “amateurish”; that is, the actions were of the kind of amateur nature we’d expect of a child. We cannot give proper credit to this “sleuth” as his identity may be closely associated with this crime and we respect his/her privacy. However, his postings give the sense to this author of being an academic of the humanities or soft sciences (who often make these very kinds of circularity errors). This savage murder was severely bollixed due to the inexperience and ignorance of the assailant. The victim suffered excessively and for a period of not less than 15 minutes, was likely murdered by her own mother and knew it, was killed with malice and forethought, was a defenseless six year old female, and was betrayed by a likely malicious pretext. This murder was of the 1st degree with malice and forethought and under substantially aggravated conditions. That is why we share this ugly story with you. We shall see shortly that JR bears the same account, regardless of his lack of contribution to the physical act. We shall see that some factors could mitigate, but we have no certainty of that without a confession. Shortly after PR was convinced of success, she likely took the bat to the kitchen, removed any obvious, loose evidence and poured it down the kitchen drain. Alternatively, this same procedure may have been carried out in the basement bathroom possibly leaving evidence in the toilet as well. PR then proceeded to the main floor and fetched the flash light from its normal placement in the kitchen and proceeded to the Butler’s pantry door to the back yard. Noting that the flashlight did not work, she replaced the batteries with fresh ones. While doing so, PR was forced to turn on several lights that had intentionally been left off for added concealment of her activities. She had not anticipated needing them. Exiting the house briefly in the cold night, PR turned on the flashlight and shined it about, looking for a place to discard the bat. Finding a place “not likely a place a child would leave it”, she returned to the basement inadvertently leaving the Butler’s pantry door closed but unlatched. Winds and / or temperature gradients would later open it slightly. Upon returning to the kitchen area PR may have replaced the flashlight expediently to the kitchen island counter rather than its normal location. She likely turned the lights off behind her. Her movements at ground level were seen by one of the witnesses in the neighborhood, though she was not specifically identified. As all these latter events were “off-plan”. At some point either PR or JR wiped the flashlight and its batteries of fingerprints. Considerable evidence remains as a result of these unplanned activities; beginning when the initial strangulation failed to kill JBR. The region of the vestibule and the “wine cellar” consists of a concrete surfaced floor. The chair to which JBR was probably restrained may have either had metal feet or a metal frame, which scraped against the floor loudly as she was dragged backward to the carpeted area. This sound also likely transferred readily through the duct to any listener located in a direction in front of the Ramsey home. Had the attacker been male he would likely have had the strength to lift the 45 pound child and chair and heave in mid-air, thus averting this loud, desperate noise. An alternative or complementary correlation can be found in the possibility that PR swung at the child more than once, one of the blows striking either the concrete wall or, if oddly oriented, the concrete floor, also emitting a very loud metal to concrete sound. If so, it lends credence to, but does not establish, that PR was alerted to her failed murder attempt not by the scream but by some other noise created by JBR and that JBR’s scream was a reaction to the blow that “missed”. This could indicate that JBR was a moving target, either still in the chair or out of it, but we have insufficient information to resolve that question. The mechanics of the melee indicate that the former explanation is most likely, that is, that JBR regained consciousness and screamed. PR struck her head with a baseball bat. She was then dragged in the chair by a rope around her neck to the spot where she voided and expired. The “wine cellar” door was likely open when JBR voided. The entire attack sequence lasted a total of about 15 to 30 minutes, excluding the time elapsed when the attack was suspended. Still shocked by JBR’s refusal to die and exhausted from the unexpected physical exertion required, PR removed the child from the chair lying her face down on the carpet next to the paint “tote” where she picked up a small amount of green paint on her chin and a fiber from the carpet. In PR’s exhausted condition (especially her arms) BR’s remains likely slipped from PR’s control and bumped or rubbed the contents of the paint “tote” or made contact with the green watercolor on the painting leaning on the wall next to it. Knowing that JBR’s favorite blanket and night gown were in the dryer, PR removed them and placed JBR’s remains in the main basement hallway closet. This burial wrapping was not intended to be seen by anyone else; that is, the placement of the remains in the closet was a temporary storage location until the remains could be transported off the property and the child could be buried in the wrap. Thus no action to clean the urine expelled when JBR voided was planned. given her previously unsatisfactory experience flushing evidence into the sewer, PR likely placed any other inculpatory items that couldn’t be flushed down the toilet with the remains; such as the knife with BR’s name on it that she used to cut the rope and possibly some of the tape, the wire knot samples and whatever clothes and jewelry the victim was wearing. If we itemize each item that could be inculpatory but not flushed we come up with exactly that list. The blanket and night gown clung to each other in a very strong static cling (in Colorado, and other dry places, static cling is remarkably strong and persistent). This act of compassion in death was likely related to grandiose delusions of a spiritual nature in which JBR’s death was understood to be “necessary” and “unintentional” in the “big picture” that PR, being who she was, had unique access to and understanding of. If it protected PR’s public image it must be a good thing to send the person of JBR on to her maker, a Narcissist could easily muse. PR cleaned up the scene and likely disposed of the duct tape used for restraint by gradual, piece-meal flushing down the toilet. In so doing, she missed one small piece of the tape on one of JBR’s ankles. At some point that night a return of the cleaned sheets to the bed would also be necessary though it is not clear exactly how this was done and we lack sufficient information to resolve that matter. It could be that the red sweater was under JBR’s buttocks in the bed, and she wet it that way not wetting the sheets. And the anterior urine could then be explained by face-forward position PR put her in when she removed her from the chair immediately after death. But PR’s actions after employing the bat showed that the plan had gone off the rails and that she was under great stress. Examining the pictures of the basement it is evident that a chair placed in front of the train room is precisely the general location one would place the chair if “dumping” the remains in the main basement closest directly across the hall. Its position is expedient, hurried and speaks of panic. Having said that, the most likely position of the body in the closest was more or less identical to what we saw in rigor mortis; it would have to have been. The shape of the closet is consistent with the geometry of the remains. PR forgot this detail and didn’t consider the possibility that a chair in the middle of the main basement hallway might stand out for forensic examination. JR would later inadvertently tidy up this oversight. PR, in classic melodramatic, Narcissistic style, attempted to make it appear that a kidnapper had entered the home and simply removed the child. This could still be pinned on Bill McReynold’s. Shortly after the murder PR likely awakened JR due to the unforeseen difficulties and enlisted his help. In order to limit incriminating knowledge between them (keeping their “stories straight” and consistent) we suspect that JR was involved in this conspiracy but had reached an understanding that his work would mostly be post-mortem and related to transportation and disposal. PR further staged a kidnapping by placing a suitcase with two blankets (ironically, note aware that JAR’s semen was on/in the blankets) and a Dr. Seuss book inside under a basement window that she opened wide; but one covered with a steel grate that had spider webs between it and the wall supporting it indicating it was not recently used. Again, this material came from JAR’s bedroom, the apparent “equipment” room for this murder. She then surmised that her planned ransom note would be the master touch, her august moment, the one thing that outsmarted the police long enough for JR to complete his half of the plan. PR was absolutely, resolutely confident in her ability to outsmart everyone. They would never realize she wrote it, a personality of her type would conclude. But the content of the note now had to change due to unforeseen events in the murder. PR would have to re-write the note on the spot, and so she did, discarding the note she had written some time before that night. And we now see what to do with the question of tape over the victim’s mouth. It was there until JBR took it off. Tape was never placed back on her mouth … there was no need. The focus sharpens. FW touched JBR’s cold ankle in the closet and pulled a piece of the tape off of it. That tape was a piece of the restraint tape and it was never on JBR’s mouth. Neither JR or FW or anyone removed tape from JBR’s mouth. They were scrambling trying to figure out what to do with the evidence to give it a purpose and reason for being there. Early in the morning hours JR examined the basement one more time before calling 911. PR had already placed the body in the main basement hallway closet and prepared it for transport. JR did not want to handle the remains at all. The basement window was likely never open, an oversight on JR’s part. But he did crack the glass. JR examined the scene to check for any incriminating evidence left behind but he did not check the body itself, and did not find the piece of black duct tape still attached to JBR’s ankle. The closet may have had a lock as well. It might have even had a lock that requires a key to lock it. Whatever the case, he verified the locking of the door if it existed. It was just about time for JR to begin his part of this operation. After the kidnapper call didn’t’ come in (it did not initially occur to him or PR that the date of the call might also fall on the 27th) JR would wait as the police all departed, not thinking a search warrant would issue so quickly. Once gone, they could be airborne by noon, he likely reasoned. When it was safe to bring the remains up, he would take the family with him in the Cherokee, the remains loaded into the back. Upon reaching the airport he would transfer the remains to his airplane. The remains were likely contained in an inconspicuous looking cargo container for ease of handling and concealment. This also resolved the “trail of trace evidence” problem that transportation inevitably causes. All would be confined to the container. PR would help him haul the 150 pound cargo up to the garage and his mechanics would load it on the aircraft. Burke would be sent to the neighbors to conceal these activities from him. When informed of the impending search warrant JR proceeded to the basement quickly as the search warrant and police dogs could be walking up to the front door at any moment. He and FW proceeded to the play room and then the shower for reasons unknown but probably related to the ruse unfolding. JR stopped at the closet and opened what may have been an air container, its top loading door making the sound of a fireplace grill being moved. He lifted the remains while FW grabbed the death wrap. In grabbing the death wrap FW touched JBR’s ankle and felt that it was cold. This was the first he knew that JBR was truly dead. But in so doing he also noticed that piece of black duct tape left on JBR’s ankle. They both proceeded quickly to the “wine cellar” where FW dropped the blanket and night gown, static cling still holding them together. In that blanket were the pocket knife with BR’s name on it and some wire knotting PR had placed there to remove from the house. But PR neglected to report its existence to JR. Here is yet another mistake related to an “off-plan” decision. JR then removed the duct tape and tossed it on the “wine cellar” floor. It is possible that JR never put it on her mouth at all, just carried it over to the wine cellar. Once the “wine cellar” setting appeared acceptable and while still at the doorway, JR loudly exclaimed, “Oh my God, my baby”. He and FW then began running up the stairs with JR holding the remains in a way indicative of the fact that he had little stomach for the dirty work. But he had no choice now. “It’s now up to you John” was not a phrase used without reason. PR was telling JR that his role in this plan had now begun and that she was depending on him. She knew he had little stomach for this. We suspect but obviously cannot know that the second ransom note was a letter to JR; an official handoff of the operation to JR as agreed and planned under the stress of events that hadn’t gone as planned. Finally, the sadistic humor of the ransom note makes perfect sense and rings with clarity. Use the sum of cash we agreed upon when paying for everything required to finish this job – and not credit cards (the fuel alone would cost about 8,000 USD), the note tells JR. The transferal of the remains to Georgia and they’re subsequent disposal will be tiring and long, it warns. The police won’t particularly like you when they suspect malfeasance and they will be hovering over JBR’s remains for a while before they leave, the note predicts. And don’t try to outsmart me, John; that is, don’t betray me, it continues. And yes, I have access to money, too, so don’t think I can’t have you whacked; Don’t try to grow a brain and sell me out; Use the good southern common sense that I taught you; It’s up to you now John, the admonishments continue. And she signs it in such a manner that JR will know it is addressed specifically to him from PR, for only PR knew that the Subic Bay Training Center was renamed shortly after JR left. It was a coded message clear only to JR. And it read, don’t fuck up. The problem with PR’s modified ransom note plan was that all of it was impromptu, managed by one person in a diminished state of mental functioning and outside the well planned stagecraft originally drafted. This made every action in the cover up susceptible to error. That is in fact exactly what we see. The pre-meditated events up to the murder itself are executed flawlessly. The evidence available for these events is far more limited than what we have from the unforeseen events – as we would expect. Only after a baseball bat unexpectedly flies through the basement do things get complicated, and downright weird. What we’re seeing is the result of a discombobulated cover up conjured up in the middle of the night under intense pressure to avoid discovery. Indeed, almost all causes we can identify as tied to a material effect seem related to matters that JR and PR could not have known in advance, while all evidence related to premeditation is largely obfuscated from us. Two classes of evidence are what we primarily have to work with; an unintentional head bashing and sexual assault. These are tantalizing patterns. 
JR’s vintage King Air, with a heavy range of 1500 statute miles, sold after the murder. At about 6:45 a.m. 26 December 1996, JR asked the pilot, Michael Archuleta, to ready the plane for a departure to Atlanta. In desperation, he would make the same request again after the body was found. A suitable “heavy” configuration might include JR, PR, BR and JBR’s remains with fuel topped off up to takeoff weight and very light luggage. One final question remains that we’ve been unable to answer due to lack of information. We concur that both JR and PR probably exhibited clinical symptoms of various mental disorders. But we also concur that JR and PR were not idiots. In fact, we suspect them to have been quite clever. Did the prohibition by police for JR to leave Colorado, and the rapid issuance of a search warrant (usually, searches are done upon permission of the homeowner first), frustrate efforts to remove the remains from the house? Does this explain why JR would make such a risky, seemingly incriminating, attempt to leave Colorado? Does this explain the “kidnapping hoax”; that is, was the “kidnapping” an attempt to make an obvious murder a missing person’s case, hence much more difficult to prosecute? In that scenario JBR just becomes a missing kid whose kidnappers never called. Would “perfection” in the ransom note and the overall kidnapping story matter as much in that scenario? Does this explain a possible comment during the 911 call by BR in which he asked, “what Directory: 2012 2012 -> The Case Against the nypd’s Quota-Driven ‘Broken Windows’ Policing What Is It? 2012 -> Annual InStructional unit plan 2012 -> University of Hawai‘i Maui College dental assisting program review october 21, 2013 2012 -> Committee on the rights of the child the rights of all children in the context of international migration 2012 -> Background on the Haitian Earthquake 2012 -> The Collected Wisdom of Science Olympiad Coaches 2012 -> Federal Communications Commission fcc 12-81 Before the Federal Communications Commission 2012 -> Aa and na members Dying from Tobacco 2012 -> [Baby Crying] 01: 04 [Ching Download 5.45 Mb. Share with your friends:
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