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Originally Posted by wiseguy182
I've always defended the Ramseys, even though, as I said elsewhere on this forum, they probably weren't people I would have associated with IRL. Personally, I thought they came across as too country club and aloof on several occasions. Their book was also a hard read, mostly because John and Patsy kept alternating back and forth on the writing, and you could never tell who was saying what.
For me, and before even getting down to the nitty-gritty details of the case, there are 3 major road blocks that prevent me from thinking they are guilty.
1.) The people who think the Ramseys are guilty haven't unified in any one suspect. There is way too much uncertainty. At first, people thought John did it. Then people thought Patsy did it. Then, people thought it was a combination of John and Patsy and/or that one was covering for the other. Then, people thought it was Burke. Nowadays, opinions are all over the place. In order to come off as credible, they would have needed to settle on a suspect(s) and convincingly tie them to a motive. That hasn't, and still hasn't, happened 17 years after the fact.
2.) No motive. The only motive I have ever heard is the bedwetting scenario, which is weak to the point of being laughable.
3.) The sheer brutality of the crime(s). Yes, there have been cases of parents killing their children. But this was extremely violent. There was no history of any violence in that household, nor was their ever any accounts that the Ramseys were anything but loving parents towards JonBenet.
those are the three, 800 pound gorillas in the room. For me, it was bothersome that many hadn't even considered the possibility of an intruder (and there were several good suspects, they had a party in their house earlier in the day, and their house was ENORMOUS, with plenty of places for someone to hide without being detected).
As for this indictment business, I don't know they are making an issue of it now. The Ramseys were already extensively investigated (scruitinized might be a better word) and were cleared by the police department. They weren't involved. Period.
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