Granite said:
Armchair detective work is nice and clean and safe. Anybody who skims headlines, checks out a website or two, or picks up drug store paperbacks can become an "expert" on any given homicide.
I'd also like to think that most of the 'experts' made from armchair detective work would have to be familiar with Psychology on some levels and also with the nature of crime in general. i.e. familiar with other murders/serial murder cases.
Granite said:
As far as the note goes, I would support profiler John Douglas's take on it: the note was written by a criminally unsophisticated perpetrator with limited access or knowledge into the Ramsey's life.
I totally agree with you. Also, the perpetrator/s would have to be somewhat familiar with Jon Benet to stalk her, try to take her and then brutally assault her and take her life. Why couldn't the murderer also be familiar with the parents situation?
John Mark Karr may just have been a sick obsessed child molester...but in my opinion his sick fantasy may have given us a insight into what really happened to Jon Benet.
In my opinion a team of pedophiles were obsessed with jonbenet...and probably many other young girls/boys in the area. They stalked her and her family, and entered the house through the basement window, where they also left. I think that the plan was to kidnap her, and while one wrote the makeshift ransom note, the other got carried away and decided to play out some built up sick frustration on the child while waiting in the basement. I'm not sure of the exact act, but he either hurt her (there was blunt trauma to the head) or got carried away with the garrote and then bashed her head in...I'm not sure of the order of the injuries. He may have even begun to molest her before even bringing her to the basement, although there's no evidence of that anywhere in the house.
There's no limit to the sickening depraved horrible things these people want to do to children. I don't see how it's so hard to believe that people like that would be the real killers here. They could have taken any number of kids all over the country. How many missing children are there in the US?
