McReynolds, the Santa - really too many coincidences. Their daughter had been kidnapped years before with another child and the other child was molested ON CHIRSTMAS, too. Mrs. McReynolds wrote a play about a someone getting strangled to death in a basement. It was him who called the Ramsey’s about doing Santa for them again that year and they agreed even though it wasn’t in the plan. Then JonBenet tells her friend and friend’s mother that Santa told her he’d visit her AFTER Christmas and it was a secret. His interviews remind me of Sandy Hook’s freaky Gene Rosen all lovey dovey and how he and JonBenet had a special connection, etc. Just way too much, imo.
But, I’m of the opinion Burke, the brother, hit her on the head and the parents covered for him staging the scene and that ridiculous ransom note. No stranger would have an knowledge of the personal innuendoes in the note. It’s doubtful a close acquaintance or friend would know enough to write all slights against John. The note is all about John and his work relations. The cops couldn’t eliminate Patsy as the writer of the note and her letters do look a lot like the author’s (especially the pointy “C” and “q” looking like 8). What kind of dump intruder would hang around inside the house writing and rewriting a 2.5 page note?
Today, Burke is 29 years old but hasn’t matured past the interviews when he was little. That smirk and smile was creepy then and it’s even more creepy today. There has to be something there. He’s special needs or something. Whatever, he doesn’t show normal reactions. When he was little, he couldn’t sit still in a chair without climbing all over. As an adult he has shifty eyes and fidgety fingers. “Maaaaaybe!”, giggle, they ate pineapple??? “She had a droopy eye” in her coffin??? “I don’t remember her hair was that long” in her last photograph. When little, he didn’t draw her in his family members picture but that she’d died so he was “moving on”??? Then he claims he’s never in all these years read the ransom note? The day it happened, his mama came into his room looking frantically for his sister but he never asked why or got out of bed. Later, when the police came in shining a flashlight, he didn’t get out of bed. His parents left him (or ordered him to stay put) there all by himself and he wasn’t the least bit curious. Really? It’s obvious he’s been coached and coached and coached.
He admitted to Dr. Phil he went downstairs in the middle of the night to play with a toy but doesn’t remember what toy. I’m going with the model (train?) he and John put together that night before being put to bed... with a flashlight. Could it have been the flashlight that had been wiped of fingerprints including the batteries the cops found on the counter? And which could have been the instrument that cracked her skull?
I was reading through the case and watched the 3 part series this week.
I believe it was a family member.
The basement light was hidden, not in a normal place on the wall. Only someone familiar with the house would know where the light was.
The note 3 pages- the pen ink was linked to the pen in the house as was the paper
If an intruder, could have taken her out the back door that was near kitchen but instead, went long way through the house down to basement.
The wine door where she was found was hard to see and know it was even there unless familiar with house
The blanket she was found wrapped in was the one taken out of dryer per housekeeper. Patsy stripped her bed daily because JonBenet wet bed every night.
Someone saw like flash light (light) in kitchen that night
How did someone get JonBenet to eat pineapple? Intruder wouldn’t sit with her while she ate it.
Patsy wore same outfit from night before that morning- her friends said she never did that, wore same outfit from day before. Red and black threads were on the duck tape from Jons mouth. Patsy wore red sweater and black jacket that morning and night before.
Swiss army knife found in basement that the housekeeper sai she had taken from Burke and hid in upstairs linen closet near JonBenets bedroom.
Note found on back stair case which can’t be seen from living quarters of the house. Intruder would have used the main stair case leading upstairs from front door entrance.
With their daughters body laying upstairs, Patsy in living room with friends; John is in den opening his mail. Who does that with dead daughter laying in their house?
Patsy called 911 then called friends and neighbors who came to house. Who does that when ransom note said don’t call anyone we are watching the house or we will behead your daughter.
Just a few things. Burke ha hit JonBenet with golf club previously. It was either Burke or Patsy.