The Rage-Incident Hypothesis
Before proceeding much farther we will examine a common notion put forth regarding motive as described in various PDI, RDI and JDI theories. In its most basic form the proposition is that JBR, having a history of bed-wetting problems, continued to frustrate her mother with constant urination and defecation issues that were clearly anomalous for a 6 year old child. Most accounts describe the problem as something nearly as bad as general incontinence or a total reversion in potty training. The evidence is clear that incontinence was an issue, a fact acknowledged by PR. But, the Patsy Did It theorists insist that this is the motive for PR committing the murder or negligent manslaughter of her child. Most forms of this theory seem to focus on the idea that PR, thrust into an uncontrollable rage, attacked her daughter without intending to kill her. But, as it happened, the injuries sustained by JBR were much more serious than PR realized or intended. This reminds of us the “Lizzie Borden chopped up her parents because she was sexually abused” theory. In other words, it plays to our desire to understand the mind of a privileged parent that would do something like that to their child. It is one of those theories of human behavior sufficiently removed from total insanity unto which our insecurities of self are assuaged. It tenders to each of us the illusion that our self-control is beyond reproach. But it is all a lie. There really are people in our world with not a trace of empathy, conscience or compunction about the blatant pursuit of self-interests. And many of these predators live and work amongst us, cleverly disguising themselves in respectable society. It is not a fiction contrived in the willing suspension of disbelief. It is real. It is horror. It is here. These observations will be starkly supported as we unravel several long standing questions about this case in what follows.
JBR bedroom overview
At about 10:30 on the morning of 26 December, 1996 JBR’s bedroom was secured as a crime scene by the Boulder City Police Department. According to JR he took his sleeping daughter directly to bed around 9:30 p.m. the previous evening and after a final check in which she was asleep in her bed at 10:30, was the last anyone saw of her. An interesting editorial is that we feel that the idea that everyone quickly went to bed is a “lawyered” stance to deflect suspicions of sexual abuse from JR or anyone else, whether true or not. We discuss another take on that later. The coroner’s report revealed that digestion of pineapple in JBR’s GI tract ceased approximately 1 to 2 hours after consumption. Actual experimental results give a time of less than 30 minutes, which we’ll discuss later. As no pineapple was at the party, and the Ramseys made no mention of it having been fed to JBR, we can safely assume that JBR was not in bed for the entire remainder of the evening (at least not solely to be murdered) and that someone else in the household was likely awake with her. The alternative explanation is that an actor, nomen nescio, fed her the pineapple. We’ll examine both possibilities. Regardless of what the final word on this is, our own research shows that most expert opinions seem to cluster around shorter time frames rather than longer ones; that is, the GI tract timeline appears to fall in the 30 minute to 1 hour timeframe. This means, of course, that JBR was deceased within one hour of eating the pineapple, possibly within only 30 minutes.
Bed ostensibly used by JBR
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JBR’s purported bed as it appeared early 26 December, 1996
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