Any parent that would think it's normal to dress up a SIX YEAR OLD CHILD like this is seriously warped. Seriously!
Posted on 08/23/2002 2:05:38 PM PDT by gcruse
DENVER (AP) - Investigators have reportedly concluded that a palm print and footprint found in the home of JonBenet Ramsey were made by family members, not an intruder as some have suggested. Investigators believe the prints found in the basement of the home were not related to the unsolved killing of the 6-year-old girl whose body was found Dec. 26, 1996, the Rocky Mountain News reported Friday. Authorities have known the answers for some time, the newspaper reported. A footprint found in mold on the floor of the Ramseys' wine cellar, near where the girl's body was found, was linked by investigators to her then-9-year-old brother, Burke. Burke, now 15, has long since been cleared by authorities. Investigators also said a palm print on the door leading to the wine cellar is that of Melinda Ramsey, JonBenet's adult half sister, who was in Georgia at the time of the girl's death. The technician who originally ruled her out as the source of the print erred, the newspaper said. Attorney Lin Wood of Atlanta, who represents JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, said his clients do not dispute the palm-print findings, but he said the family disagrees that the footprint came from Burke. "Burke Ramsey does not and has never owned a pair of quote, unquote, trademarked Hi-Tec sneakers that the Ramseys are aware of," he said. "I would think they know what shoes he has owned." He also said the investigators' conclusions regarding the two pieces of evidence do not eliminate the theory that an intruder killed the girl. "Even if that explanation turns out to be true, but I have serious doubts, it certainly does not outweigh the overwhelming physical evidence and other evidence pointing to an intruder," Wood said. Wood said the two most important pieces of evidence in the case are unidentified male DNA found in the girl's underwear and the handwritten ransom note, whose author has never been determined. Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner on Friday declined to confirm or deny the information about the evidence. He said he believed the information did not come from any police department employee. "I wouldn't put any stock into any information that's reported unless it comes directly from Boulder police," he said. "People have speculated on evidence and information for years and it comes from many different persons, some of them not even connected to the case." JonBenet was found strangled about seven hours after her mother reported finding a ransom note demanding $118,000 for her safe return. While no one has been charged, police have said the parents have not been cleared.
Why does this strike me as falling in the category of "Duh!"? Mama was jealous of beautiful daughter who may or may not have been "boinked" by daddy. Can you say "dysfunctional family", boys and girls?
I doubt if we will ever know what really happened that night or who murdered that poor child. The only thing that I am sure of is that God will be the final judge.
Patsy used John's bonus figure.
Ding ding ding:
We have a pair of winners.
Someone awaken the fine Boulder police from their five and two-thirds year nap.
Any parent that would think it's normal to dress up a SIX YEAR OLD CHILD like this is seriously warped. Seriously!
BOULDER, Co., Posted 1:23 p.m. September 26, 1998
-- A handwriting analyst believes Patsy Ramsey wrote
the ransom note left by the person who killed Jon Benet
Ramsey.
NewsChannel5 reports unidentified law enforcement
sources are saying Donald Foster of Vassar College is
basing his analysis on the punctuation and indention
styles used in the note.
______________________________________________________________
From an article last updated February 20, 2002
The police quickly eliminated John Ramsey as author of the ransom note,
but after a series of handwriting samples from Patsy Ramsey (five
altogether), the police refused to eliminate her as the possible author of
the note. Early on, Boulder authorities first declared that Boulder
residents needn’t worry about a killer being on the loose, and finally said
publicly that the Ramseys were "under an umbrella of suspicion." By that
summer, Hunter sought the help of the nation's foremost linguistics expert,
Don Foster, a Vassar College professor. Hunter sent Foster a copy of the
ransom note and writing samples from various suspects. Det. Thomas
wrote that Foster told him that Hunter "was particularly interested in Santa
Bill [McReynolds] and his wife, Janet McReynolds, and when the
professor reported, 'They didn't write that ransom note,' Hunter seemed to
lose interest." Thomas said that after studying all the writing samples that
Foster told him "I believe I am going to conclude the ransom note was the
work of a single individual: Patsy Ramsey."
Foster explained to Thomas that his textual analysis work is based on
"much more than one letter looking like another. Even the slightest things,
such as the use of periods or the space before the start of a paragraph,
could create a distinctive linguistic fingerprint."
"We can't falsify who we are," Foster told Thomas. "Sentence structure,
word usage, and identifying features can be a signature."
In March of 1998, Foster traveled to Boulder for a special briefing to the
Boulder police investigators and representatives of the D.A.'s office on
his findings. By now he was convinced he knew who the author was. "In
my opinion, it is not possible that any individual except Patsy Ramsey
wrote the ransom note," adding that she had been unassisted in writing it.
In his book, Thomas recounts what Foster told the investigators:
"He explained that language is infinitely diverse and that no
two people use it in quite the same way. They do not have the
same vocabulary, use identical spelling and punctuation,
construct sentences in the same manner, read the same
books, or express the same beliefs and ideas. Ingrained and
unconscious habits are virtually impossible to conceal, even it
a writer tries to disguise his identity, he said. 'Individuals are
prisoners of their own language.
"Foster dissected the ransom note, explained that the
wording contained intelligent and sometimes clever usage of
language, and said the text suggested someone who was
trying to deceive.
"The documents he studied from Patsy Ramsey, in his
opinion, formed 'a precise and unequivocal match' with the
ransom note. He read a list of 'unique matches' with the note
that included such things as her penchant for inventing private
acronyms, spelling habits, indentation, alliterative phrasing,
metaphors, grammar, vocabulary, frequent use of exclamation
points, and even the format of her handwriting on the page."
IMHO, quite true. Interesting post.
...what was meant to be an adult-child experience got a little rough and out of hand.
'Tis just speculation, and nothing more; however, I think the theory is generally the, "best fit," for the circumstances and facts as they've been reported.
I think it is very possible that the Ramsey's did not kill JonBenet, but they know who did and for some strange reason they need to protect this person in order to keep from implicating themselves in some way.
Imagine this scenario:
Patsy Ramsey, stage mother extraordinare, lives vicariously through her daughter. She was once a beauty queen, and spares no expense to see that her daughter becomes one as well. Trouble is, there's a "pageant pervert" hanging around all of the pageants, but he is there in an official capacity waiting for the right moment to present itself. Patsy gets to know the guy, and he plays right into her own fantasies of her daughter's beauty and abilities. How flattered Patsy is that he can see what she sees in JonBenet! They become friends. In fact, they become more than friends. He begins an affair with Patsy in an effort to get close to JonBenet. Maybe she even gives him a key to the house. Then, when the moment is right, the pervert strikes the target that he wanted all along -- JonBenet. He gets what he wants and kills the child. Patsy realizes who the killer/rapist is, but protects him (hence the note) because outing him will let the world know what she has been up to. Not that she would be charged with the murder, but the truth would bring about a divorce and she doesn't want to risk losing her extravagant lifestyle.
After all, how many times do you hear stories of girls that are molested by stepfathers, but the child's mother doesn't do anything about it and stays with the guy, either because she doesn't want to be alone or doesn't want a change in lifestyle?
O.K. you got me. Damn you're good, you super sleuth you. I confess. I did it. Come and arrest me. I give up.
Actually the same could be asked of you
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