It's great to see such a distinguished member of the sleuthing committee reading my theory. I'm honored and humbled. :-)

Actually I was reluctant to post my theory now because that's not really what I'm all about this time 'round. I don't need the theory to make the points I'm making now. But the theory can serve to explain how John Ramsey MIGHT have done this crime and hoped to get away with it, so it's useful in that respect. Could it have happened differently? Yes.

>>1. John kills his daughter JonBenet, probably in connection
>>with some sort of sexual molestation. It’s difficult to account for >the reason behind the head blow, but it would seem to have followed >strangulation and been part of a coverup effort.
>Leaving aside that there is ZERO evidence of John having
>molested either of his daughters,

Not according to Dr. Wecht and other forensic experts, who saw clear evidence of chronic sexual abuse in the coroner's report.

>does it really make sense
>that John would select Christmas night to undertake these
>activities given that everyone needed to get up bright and
>early the next morning: (Patsy: JBR, honey, why are you so
>tired?" JBR: "Oh, Daddy kept messing around with me last
>night.").

There is a Yiddish saying I won't quote here verbatim because it's a tad vulgar. But the gist is that at certain times of sexual arousal the human male does NOT often "make sense." We have to remember, also, that they were about to visit other members of the family and there would have been a danger that JonBenet might confide in one of them.

>Why would he take the enormous risk of molesting
>his daughter with his wife in the house ("Honey, the reason
>I was in the BASEMENT with our DAUGHTER when you
>unexpectedly woke up was because I needed her help looking
>for my golf clubs") when there surely would be other
>opportunities to do so when neither Patsy and/or Burke were
>around? Doesn't compute.

See my version of the above Yiddish proverb. Lots of things don't compute under certain circumstances of sexual arousal. OR the anxiety of being "found out."