I stand corrected. Thank you. Facts always are paramount to me.
The first crimes linked to the BTK killer occurred on January 15, 1974, when Joseph Otero, 38, his wife Julie, 34, and their children Josephine, 11, and Joseph, 9, were found dead inside their home. Source.
Unlike the Ramsey case, BTK murdered the entire Otero family. To the best of my knowledge, he killed only teenagers and/or adults thereafter.
There are many strange things about the Ramsey case. I remain skeptical (not closed minded to, but needing evidence) that a total stranger killed Jon Benet. It's extremely rare for a stranger/murderer to kill only one person in a household, and to kill that one person while remaining inside the house and knowing other people are inside.
Although it isn't unknown for strangers to snatch kids out of their homes and kill them, as in the Lindburgh baby and Polly Klass cases, it rarest of the rare.
According all law enforcement statistics, most murderers of children are relatives, acquaintances or caretakers. Younger children (aged 13 and under) are more likely to be murdered by a relative; and older children, aged 13-18. Approximately 1200 to 1500 children under the age of 18 are murdered annually. Approximately 57% were killed by a parent. Strangulation, use of a blunt object, and beating with fists were the most common means used when a parent killed a child. (Source.)
So I repeat, if John or Patsy Ramsey were, indeed, innocent of this crime, then the most likely murderer is someone who knew them.
One reason the BTK case came to my mind was that I remember at one point reading someone’s theory that Jon Benet may have been one of his victims (due to his penchant for garroting and hiding in victims’ basements).
This - of course - was prior to the capture of Mr. Rader whose dna was not a match.
An interesting aspect to the BTK case...the first victims being the Oteros, and it was due to his sexual fantasies regarding both the mother and the young daughter.
So - it is not unheard of that a freak of nature and a total stranger can pull something like this off.
One night BTK snuck into a woman’s basement and waited for her.
Lucky for her she did not come home that night, and he wrote a poem about how upset he was.
Such people do exist.