But if it was an intruder, he felt comfortable enough inside the home to tear up two drafts of the letter, then pen a three-page missive, taking it back upstairs to leave it on the stairway - all risking the chance that he would be caught or would leave incriminating evidence. Almost anyone who is skilled at committing a crime knows to get the heck out of dodge as fast as possible rather than staying around to pen a long note.
My theory all along is that the Ramseys are hiding something about that night - maybe not that they were the killers but that they know who it was. If my child was murdered in my home, I would be pounding on the door of the police and the sheriff demanding justice until the killer was caught and then I'd be at the trial every day to see that the fiend was put away. My instinct would not be to lawyer up, hire a PR firm and then play keep-away from law enforcement. A large amount of the animosity towards the Ramseys from LE and the media they brought upon themselves because they became defensive after their child's death instead of taking the offensive and demanding justice like most parents would do.
I agree with your assessment. Something puzzling was going on in that house:
1.) Patsy and Burke's fingerprints were all over the bowl of pineapple which we know was the last thing Jonbenet ate. The bowl was taken down from a high shelf. If not taken down by Patsy or the intruder, then who?
2.) How did Patsy's jacket fibers end up entwined in the ligature, on the inside of the tape that covered jonbenet's mouth, and ALSO in the paint tray from which the stick to make the ligature was used? She said she never wore that jacket down there.
3.) Why, according to pathologists, was the tape put over Jonbenet's mouth AFTER she died?
4.) Why were both Patsy and John apparently wearing the same clothes they had on the night before?
5.) Why did Patsy claim that Burke was asleep during the morning of the discovery of the ransom note when he was clearly heard on the 911 tape? What did he mean by saying "but what did I do" and "but what did you find"?
6.) Why was a 45 lb. girl dragged?
7.) The coroner pinned her time of death very close to 10 p.m. How did an intruder, by virtue of the theory, botch a kidnapping (and thus write a long, 3 page rambling note), THEN kill her all between about 10:30 and 11 p.m. that night? By all appearances of forensics, the note was written after she died, not before. That defies the intruder theory. Even if he was already in the house when they got home he would have had to kill jonbenet at about the same time they walked in the door.
8.) What type of blow to the head would an intruder likely put on the child's head that would not create a laceration? An intruder in the bathtub? Why?
That's too much basic forensic evidence to ignore, regardless of what we may conjecture about how the Ramseys thought or what they would have done in x or y situations.
In their defense...in addition to posting about the ransom note...they have said the police made accusative noises toward them immediately and as time went on it got worse. I'm certain the Ramseys had a lawyer already to handle their business affairs, and I'd bet that lawyer told them in no uncertain terms to get legal help.
You're entitled to your suspicions...I used to think exactly your way but not so much now. I'm open to other ways of looking at it, whereas way back then my suspicions were on THEM.