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Thanks for the links. I'm reading them, but looking for other sites to cooberate them. It seems that there is conflicting analysis for a lot related to this case.

The fact that the DNA found with the blood in Jonbenet's underwear also matches that which was recovered from underneath her fingernails makes it highly unlikely that the DNA came from a store clerk, or manufacturer. This is a big problem for the *Patsy did it* theory.

Well, we now know that the terrorists blew it. The REAL way to get aboard an airplane and blow it up is to confess to some unsolved murder while overseas and then let DHS take you back. You aren't paraded in handcuffs, you're given VIP treatment with champagne, beer, roast duck, prawns, etc. Then all you have to do is excuse yourself to change clothes and then bend over to light your untied shoes and....BLAM.

Meanwhile, you and I get treated like terrorists just for wanting to fly coach from Boston to Baltimore.

For Christmas, I'm thinking of confessing to murdering writer Hunter S. Thompson. Jail in Aspen doesn't sound so bad. Then I can fly first class from wherever I am off to Aspen in elegance and style with an entourage of reporters and security officials in tow. I'll have to practice confessing my secret love for Hunter without smirking. Should I tell them that I blew off his head with a shotgun by accident? That it was all a blur?

Maybe I should confess to killing Robert Blake's wife instead. Or shooting down JFK Jr's plane. I dunno. There are so many dead celebs out there. OOH! OOH! I got it!!!

I murdered Elvis. I was obsessed. They'll HAVE to pay attention to me then...

There is a somewhat simple explanation for the transfer of the DNA - JonBenet was not well trained in toileting issues and had trouble wiping. She would often call out for someone to come help her.

Patsy couldn't tell exactly when JBR had last washed her hands and JonBenet had been several places that day. However, it has been said that the DNA doesn't match anyone who was at the party at the Whites' house earlier in the evening.

The DNA is supposedly from saliva or even someone's sneeze. I had a theory about it, but won't go into it too far. Among the things she was said to have *possibly* eaten that night was a plate of cracked crabs that Priscilla White had saved for her from the night before.

They had visited the Whites on Christmas Eve while out looking at Christmas lights. The Whites were having traditional cracked crab (they were from Newport Beach, CA, originally) for Christmas Eve dinner and JonBenet saw it and wanted some, so Priscilla saved it for her for the next night.

However, no one knows for sure if she actually ate it. It would have been early in the evening and her stomach contents had pretty much been digested and emptied before death - except for some fresh pineapple. I have always felt that it could've been something on the crab shells, but have always gotten ridiculed for it.

Lots of human hands had touched them and boiling doesn't destroy DNA. Her buttery hands could have retained "stuff."

The DNA evidence is interesting. With all the complexities of it, and all the possibilities for contamination, age, etc. I wanted to wait and see if we could find out a little more before I took it all in as fact. Some are saying the DNA under the fingernails was not indicative of struggle b/c of its age and small amount. I guess they're suggesting that it could have come from someone BEFORE the murder itself occured. I guess the thinking is that maybe it does match other DNA but that DNA came from someone before the murder. If it did, it still suggests something wacky was going on in that family.

As for the "Patsy did it" theory, it doesn't ring true to me. But that she was involved in a cover-up of some kind is a lot more believable. Not certain, just believable. There are so many variations on these possibilities it will make your head spin.