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JonBenet
Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal ^ | August 30, 2006 | DOROTHY RABINOWITZ

Posted on 08/30/2006 4:39:05 AM PDT by libstripper

Two days into the JonBenet Ramsey/John Karr media deluge, a mid-fortyish male in line next to me at a food shop groaned at the day's newspaper headlines. "Now," muttered this stranger--though he wore a baseball cap with bill turned backward, which suggested a few things about him one could know right off--"now we're not going to hear about anything but this damned story for the next six weeks."

I sympathized, forbearing to tell him that it would have plenty of competition, what with the networks set to embark on round-the-clock wallowing in the Katrina anniversary.

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: casaloma; classenvy; dorothyrabinowitz; jonbennet; rabinowitz; ramsey; theparentsdidnotdoit; theramseysareguilty
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To: JRochelle

The Ramseys were not "both from the South". John Ramsey was born in Nebraska and grew up in Michigan, all the way through college and beyond. That is NOT in the South.


221 posted on 08/30/2006 3:38:47 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: JRochelle

Sleep-walking?


222 posted on 08/30/2006 3:39:22 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: soccermom

Did you really look at those marks, which, BTW, are abrasions, not burns?

If you magnify them, they are exactly the opposite of one another. One set has a very dark center, with lighter tissue radiating outward from it. The other set has a very light center, with gradually darker tissue radiating out from it.


223 posted on 08/30/2006 3:43:01 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: JRochelle

No, she did not.


224 posted on 08/30/2006 3:45:07 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: Rte66

Not necesarrily. Depends on the garment, what type of fiber it was made from, tightness and looseness of weave. Mohair, angora and cashmere sheds more than wool, wool sheds more than cotton or nylon.

The more time spent with someone, the more fibers will be shed and picked up. Patsy was wearing a garment with fiber that shed easily and spent a lot of time in close proximity to JBR.

As such, that fiber evidence would be easily refuted in court.


225 posted on 08/30/2006 3:46:43 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Big Media is like Barney Fife with a gun.)
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To: JRochelle

Good grief. John Ramsey broke the window the summer of 1996 when he was locked out and Patsy was in Charlevoix. It had never been fixed and he was said to have used it again when locked out again.

It's likely *his* scuff mark on the wall, where he eased himself inside. Anyone could have put that suitcase there at any time.

John tried to make Fleet White think the window had just been broken that night and the suitcase just appeared out of nowhere, so the the "intruder" could get a leg up to go out the window. Fleet admitted he moved it to look more closely at the broken glass.


226 posted on 08/30/2006 3:49:20 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: soccermom

You mean Jerry Toriello, the one before these polygraphers whose results they announced to the world?

Toriello had inconclusive results with Patsy. And what about the one before that, whose name they wouldn't even reveal? Practice makes perfect.


227 posted on 08/30/2006 3:52:01 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: JRochelle

Snaps, buttons or objects which a dying body laid upon or next to, which left marks that turned dark after death, are much more likely to be the abrasions than a stun gun, which burns, but doesn't scratch.

Objectivity doesn't have anything to do with it.


228 posted on 08/30/2006 3:54:54 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: soccermom

Three questions. That's all they had on each test and it took hours. After having taken tests with other polygraphers.


229 posted on 08/30/2006 3:57:41 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: JRochelle

The windowsill was undisturbed of its layer of dust and flaking paint. Anyone going in that window would have had to sit on the sill to get in. No one had done that since John Ramsey had done it last.


230 posted on 08/30/2006 3:59:43 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: soccermom

So, the 200 or so others that the BDA says her department has investigated - a department that favors the Ramseys - are just chopped liver?


231 posted on 08/30/2006 4:01:40 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: daylate-dollarshort

In fact, John was "insulted" that they would ask for a polygraph to help clear them in the investigation of the murder of their own daughter.


232 posted on 08/30/2006 4:03:26 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: JRochelle

Try 4 years and several privately hired polygraphers later.


233 posted on 08/30/2006 4:04:28 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: JRochelle

Your myth. The photos were taken after the sun had come up and melted the snow. There was a glazing of frost and there were patches of snow, especially near the alleged basement window entrance, which stays in shade most of the time.

No outside footprints.


234 posted on 08/30/2006 4:06:22 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: libstripper

Me too, and I need not explain why.


235 posted on 08/30/2006 4:07:07 PM PDT by ladyinred (Leftists, the enemy within.)
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To: soccermom

Of course! That's what the ransom note-writer wanted you to think.


236 posted on 08/30/2006 4:07:32 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: JRochelle

The police were doing their jobs - trying to clear them. They obstructed the paths to that goal.


237 posted on 08/30/2006 4:08:58 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: JRochelle

That she was awake, which they said she wasn't.


238 posted on 08/30/2006 4:10:04 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: soccermom

Good grief, it's not something you broadcast or even talk about. Well, Patsy might have bragged about it, but she said she didn't know.


239 posted on 08/30/2006 4:11:55 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: soccermom

Oh, sure. Sat down to write the ransom note, knowing exactly how long the Ramseys would be at the Whites' party and being certain they would not come back in a few minutes because they forgot something.

What did the intruder do, call over to the Whites' house and say, "OK, all ready now, send them home!"


240 posted on 08/30/2006 4:14:04 PM PDT by Rte66
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