I studied this case like my life depended on it. My wife was not happy. John Douglas himself interviewed the Ramseys and pronounced them clean. This was a depraved killing done by a male who had fantasized about Jonbenet for some time. I believe he worked in the house as part of some remodel crew. He knew where her bedroom was and he was familiar with the house as well. He probably spoke with Jonbenet and she spoke with him. The fantasy now begins and builds. He plays her words back over and over in his mind until he believes there is a relationship between the two of them. The desire to realize his fantasy overwhelms him.
What he did to her was not sex but revenge. He is a life long loser who hates people like the Ramseys. Boulder is FULL of people like this. Being a LIBERAL town, it tolerates more than the usual amount of street trash and statistacally, 4 times the number of registered sex offenders than the National norm. Within a 4 mile concentric circle of the Ramseys home there was something like over 150 reg. SOs. This is a VERY sick person and now I believe he is either dead or in jail somewhere.
Patsy did not kill her daughter.
Sorry if I wasn't clear, but my post said I don't know whether she knew anything about the murder or not. I still don't, even though I haven't followed it as closely as you (and admittedly I don't know much about Boulder demographics either).
Something always smelled bad to me about it though, and I've never been able to figure out what.
Fudd-guy -- you need to get out and get some air -- your lightweight analysis doesn't cut it -- unless you live in Boulder you have no clue!!!!
I think it was person that knew the family on a casual basis, who was attracted to Jonbenet. I think he knew Patsy more the John and came from kiddie pageant world.
He snuck into the house while they were out that afternoon/evening. He came in through the basement, then into the kitchen and found the pad. I think the ramson note was an impulse idea. Maybe walking around the kitchen area of that mansion made him resent their wealth and he thought up a ransom note that he knew was bogus.
After the family went to bed, he went up to Jonbenet's room, took her down to the basement, killed her and left.
The big problem with this case has been the ransom note. Handwriting analysis aside, the content of the letter sounds just like a wife nagging her husband. It seems to know a lot about the family - the bonus, the joke about "good southern sense," the way John Ramsey is addressed.
The only way to reconcile that content with the intruder theory is that he had heard Patsy talk. Maybe not a lot, but enough to be able to channel it. He was probably hypersensitive to anything that Patsy said, so a few overheard remarks could have their way into the note.