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"...This was not an outside job, it was an inside one..." According to that show I saw last night, there were 18 (18!) unsolved break-ins in that part of Boulder, immediately prior to Jon-Benet's murder. Whoever broke into the houses took "little or nothing". Those break-ins were never solved.

Michael Helgoth's "hobby" was stalking people at night, while dressed in a black ninja suit. Within a year prior to Jon-Benet's murder, in the same neighborhood, someone in a black ninja suit broke into a home while the occupants were out, waited until everyone was in bed, and then crept into a young girl's room and began a sexual assault on her. The mother of the girl, who was a light sleeper, woke up and went to the girl's room, and confronted the intruder. He rushed past her and out the door. That intruder was never caught. Doesn't that intruder appear to be a more likely suspect than Patsy Ramsey?

I think so!

Michael Helgoth's "hobby" was stalking people at night, while dressed in a black ninja suit. Within a year prior to Jon-Benet's murder, in the same neighborhood, someone in a black ninja suit broke into a home while the occupants were out, waited until everyone was in bed, and then crept into a young girl's room and began a sexual assault on her. The mother of the girl, who was a light sleeper, woke up and went to the girl's room, and confronted the intruder. He rushed past her and out the door. That intruder was never caught. Doesn't that intruder appear to be a more likely suspect than Patsy Ramsey?

Okay, then how many of those break-ins had a ransom note left behind? How many of those ransom notes knew the name of the head of the household or came up with an odd dollar figure that happened to match a significant about of money in the said head of household's life? How many ransom notes noted that the head of household was from the South?

If it was an intruder, this was not a random event. It was somebody that knew whose home he was in and what type of ransom demand to make. How many other instances can you cite of Helgoth doing that? How many other instances can you cite of any other intruders around Boulder in 1996 doing that?

Some people want to pooh-pooh the ransom note as somehow irrelevent because it doesn't fit their theory. I think it is the most important piece of the puzzle because it either means a) the intruder knew his victim - leading then to more questions about how and from where he knew the victim or b) that the Ramseys conspired to cover up the crime by turning a homicide into a faux kidnapping so as to steer investigators in the wrong direction.

One or the other is true. What you can't conclude is that a random stranger wandered into their home, killed the child, casually wrote a long note pretending to kidnap her - leaving behind additional evidence and increasing his risk of being caught - and then left yet has no connection at all to the Ramseys. IMO, you can't conclude that.

Somebody wanted JOHN RAMSEY to suffer, not the owner of the house on 15th street. To me, that's obvious unless you believe it was an inside job and the note was to throw off the investigation.