>>2. John then devises a plan, a phoney kidnapping, followed
>>by a fatal sexual attack on the part of the “kidnapper.” To
>>make this work he needs two things: a ransom note; a
>>staged break-in.
>But here's a HUGE problem with this theory. If he truly
>believes he will have all the following evening to carry out
>the rest of his plan (dumping body etc.), then there is NO
>REASON that night, when his wife might awake at any moment,
>to take the time to create all the "staging" evidence.
>Should Patsy catch him in the act of doing all this staging,
>he'd have some serious 'splainin' to do. All he needed to do
>was stow the body, because remember, your theory requires
>that he assumed no one would ever find the body in the
>house.

He may not have needed to stage for the police, but he would have had to stage for Patsy. If she didn't find a point of entry for an intruder she might have had a problem buying a kidnapping. And might have insisted on turning the house upside down looking for JonBenet. No he would have needed a stage breakin for BOTH the police AND her. But for her he needn't have been so thorough. As far as the danger of her awakening, that would always have been a concern for him ,throughout the whole episode, for sure. But what other choice would he have had, short of a confession? As it happened, she panicked and called the cops before he even had the chance to show her his staged breakin.