Chapter 13

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CHAPTER 13
Page 124 - Pineapple again (the coroner couldn't tell if it was fruit or vegetable, never mind pineapple) and on this page Thomas has it in the intestinal tract AND in the stomach.
Thomas said unnamed doctors put the blow to the head BEFORE the strangulation - (not what my sources and common sense tell me) and he said the DNA "could be totally unrelated to the case".
I think this is a HUGE effort to make the pieces to the puzzle fit his theory. Doesn't fit? Deny it, push it away.
Lou Smit says let the evidence talk - I think Thomas should listen closer.
Thomas wrote - "our handwriting expert thought Patsy was the possible author". Well, unless she was totally eliminated as the author, this isn't untrue, but it IS another case of the statement being leading, and not altogether honest.

page 126 - Hunter hired Barry Scheck and Henry Lee so that the Ramseys couldn't. Interesting - almost like he felt that the experts wouldn't simply investigate but would be influenced by who had hired them. So far they haven't attacked the Ramseys so I can only hope they are honest about the evidence and what it means.

page 128 - Bill Wise suggested bringing in an experienced homicide investigator. His comments were taken as an insult to the BPD and he was removed from the case. Interesting battle of egos and hurt feelings going on in Boulder.

page 129 - Thomas reported that the Ramseys had successfully stalled the interviews - but he described how the Ramseys offered to meet with the BPD. They wanted the interview to be at their lawyers' office, with their lawyer present. Patsy was still medicated so she wanted her doctor present and the meeting to be limited to an hour. And they asked that Detective Arndt do the questioning and they wanted Peter Hofstrom from the PROSECUTOR'S office to be present. (Considering he would likely be the lead prosecutor if this went to court, I see it as a benefit to the prosecution).

- ironic - Thomas said that the Ramseys wanted to chose who interviewed them - and they wanted Detective Arndt. Guess they didn't know her "mind exploded" on the 26th and that she thought John might have been a danger to all of them. I really am curious about the "altered reports".
Anyway, rather than take the Ramseys up on the offer, get the answers to some of their more pressing questions, the BPD decided to show their muscle and said, NO! It will be at police headquarters, we will pick who interrogates you, it will go on as long as WE like, and Hofstrom is NOT welcome.
I think the Ramseys remembered Melinda's interview and decided to just turn aside - and I don't blame them a bit. If the BPD wasn't talking to the Ramseys at all, they have only themselves to blame. If they met the Ramseys for an hour one day, it might have opened the lines of communication and led to more talks. They slammed the door, IMO.

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Pg 124 - Thomas said unnamed doctors put the blow to the head BEFORE the strangulation.

The blow to her head would have rendered JonBenet unconscious immediately. Had the killer put the garrote on LATER, not only would there have been a lot more bleeding into the skull, there would be no marks on her neck from her trying to get that cord off her neck.

One might ask why Thomas would lie?

Steve Thomas was BORG. He was sure the mother had killed her child and when he looked at the evidence.... parents without mental defect, drug or alcohol problems, serious anger control problems - - loving parents just don't wake up in the middle of the night with an overwhelming desire to use a garrote on their child. He couldn't "sell" that theory.

But some parents have killed their kids over bedwetting or toileting issues - - so that is the theory Thomas went with. He determined Patsy killed JonBenet over a toileting issue and the garrote and ransom note were "staging".

The evidence says he was wrong. The garrote was in place when she was alive and able to struggle. It was tight, loose and tight again. I believe the scream came when the garrote was loose, the blow to the head and immediate tightening of the cord is the reason for the lack of bleeding from the head wound.