Just my opinion but I see the actions of the father at that time as nothing more than an effort to make sure his DNA was all over that poor little girl.
Hey, good morning.
I like you...just so you'll not think of me as an adversary,
But...
If you found your little daughter murdered, tied up, tape over mouth, etc. in the basement of your home after she had gone missing, you wouldn't touch her? Just call out to the police...here's my dead daughter, now you come down here and process this crime scene? That's all??
I know what my father or mother would have done if they had found me dead like that at age 6...just what Ramsey did. I don't have kids so I look at it from how my parents would have reacted.
But according to you, if they did, they would be trying to throw suspicion off of themselves for my murder.
Color me speechless here in Tx, Friend...
What would Sherlock Holmes say?