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House is a Maze No Intruder Could Navigate |
Posted by: meibomius - 02-22-2017, 02:36 AM - Forum: Disproving Myths
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MYTH: The layout of the house is a maze, and no intruder could have navigated it without being totally familiar with the house. This myth I believe was first leaked by the BPD very early on, and has persisted in the minds of a lot of RDI. Even many IDI aren't sure how to counter the argument, because the layout of the house really is very complex and it isn't easy to visualize the actual path that an intruder needed to travel.
However, the parts of the house any intruder would have had to navigate to be responsible for every aspect of this crime are actually very small (i once roughly calculated it as about 20% of the house, but it was a crude estimation and I don't recall how I did it.)
To illustrate just how little of the entire house an intruder would have needed to navigate, here is an exploded floorplan of the house,* with very hastily drawn in paths of entrance and exit to cover four different possible points of entry (GREEN), then getting from JonBenét's bedroom down the the basement and the storage room where her body was found (YELLOW), and finally possible exit paths back the way he had entered, or out one of the other possible points of entry (RED). The flashlight, the markers and the notepad are all right along this path
This was done very hastily and so iis very crude looking, but I wanted to get this up here for people to react to. Does it surprise you? Does it help make the point? Is it worth spending the time to do more neatly and carefully? (& using another floorplan image if copyright is a concern) Suggestions?
*I believe I saw this original image (without paths) has been posted on one of the major forums, maybe FFJ, but I can't find any original source at the moment, and I can't find any copyright notice to help find the source. If someone knows the original source (maybe one of the news outlets?), I can add a credit. If the moderator feels it clearly violates any copyright, do what you must. This is used in good faith for what I believe is a fair use.
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The Ransom note and the Movie Connection |
Posted by: BIZ - 02-21-2017, 08:33 PM - Forum: Linguistics - Ransom Note
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Ransom (1996)
Story Lines
Specified denomination of bills and type of container for delivery of the ransom
The delivery of the ransom requires extreme physical exertion [The RN encourages John to be well-rested]
The child is bound with his hands placed above his head
Duct tape is used on the child
The child's parent is a wealthy businessman who can fly his own plane
The kidnapper employs counter-surveillance
Similar Phrases
"Do not involve the police or the FBI. If you do, I will kill him."
"Do not inform the media or I will kill him."
"No tracking devices in the money or the cases or I will kill him."
Ruthless People (1986)
Similar Phrases
"Mister Stone. Listen very carefully."
"We have kidnapped your wife."
"We have no qualms about killing and will do so at the slightest provocation. Do you understand?"
"I have no patience for stupid questions, Mister Stone, and I donÂ’t like repeating myself. Do you understand?"
"You are to obtain a new, black, American Tourister briefcase. Model numbereight-one-o-four. Do you understand?"
"In it you will place five hundred thousand dollars in unmarked, non-
sequentially numbered one-hundred dollars bills. Do you understand?"
"Monday morning, at eleven A.M., you will proceed, with case in hand, to Hope Street Plaza and wait for a phone to ring. You will receive further instructions then. Do you understand?"
"You will be watched at all phases of execution. If anyone is with you, or if any action is not carried out to our complete satisfaction, it will be
considered an infraction of the rules, and your wife will be killed. Do you understand?"
"If you notify the police, your wife will be killed. If you notify the media, she will be killed. If you deviate from our instructions in any way whatsoever, she will be killed. Do you understand?"
Speed (1994)
Story Lines
Specified denomination of bills and type of container for delivery of the ransom
The kidnapper employs counter-surveillance
Phrases
"You know that I'm on top of you. Do not attempt to grow a brain." [RN states: "Don't try to grow a brain John"]
"Mind Hunter," by FBI profiler John Douglas.
In chapter 16, there is a case of a young girl who is kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and suffocated with duct tape. When the killer called the mother, he began with the words "listen carefully." The same two words begin the ransom note."
Others have speculated that the references to "John" in the RN were to John Douglas rather than John Ramsey, i.e., that the writer was deliberately taunting FBI profilers.
Seven (1995)
Story Lines
Police drama about two cops, one new and one about to retire, after a serial killer using the seven deadly sins as his MO.[JBR may or may not have been killed by a serial killer; elements of "staging" suggest there may have been something symbolic about her death in the mind of the killer].
Phrases
Killer: "I'm setting the example. What I've done is going to be puzzled over and studied and followed... forever." [JBR's killer may have been implicitly trying to "send a message" about the U.S. "we respect your business but not the country that it serves." Alternatively the killer may have been bothered by little girls being beauty pageant queens, although this theme is not mentioned in RN].
Killer: "Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention." [JBR was dealt a savage blow to the head, one that would fell a 350 lb. lineman, far more than what was needed for her to die. If the point of this blow was to send a message, however, one would have expected it to be externally visible, which it was not. On the other hand, an extremely experienced or far-sighted killer would have known the public shock value of learning this fact at the autopsy.].
Killer: "It seems that envy is my sin." [The allusion to "fat cat" in the RN suggests the killer may have been envious of JR; on the other hand, it's not clear the killer would have been self-critical enough to label his/her behavior as envious].
Nick of Time (1995)
When Aired. "On the night JonBenet was murdered, the movie 'Nick of Time' aired at 7:30 P.M. on a Boulder cable channel....Bill Cox, who was staying with Fleet and Priscilla White, told the police he remembered watching the movie that night." (Schiller 1999:225t).
Story Lines
"The story centers on an unarmed political faction that kidnaps a six-year-old girl." (Schiller 1999:225,).
Similar Phrases
"The victim is told, "Listen to me very carefully.'" (Schiller 1999:225,)
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Sealed portions released - news story |
Posted by: jameson245 - 02-21-2017, 12:20 AM - Forum: Autopsy
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The Denver Post
August 16, 2006
Released under court order Wednesday, the last sealed
portions of JonBenet Ramsey’s autopsy report focused on the cord
and the stick used to strangle her.
The stick is 4 1/2 inches long and broken on both ends,
according to the autopsy report. It’s spotted with “”several
colors of paint” and glistens with varnish.
“Printed in gold letters on one end of the wooden stick is
the word “Korea,”’ Boulder County Coroner John Meyer’s
nine-page report states.
The end of another word appears from
beneath the cord on the stick, and strands of blond hair are
caught in the knot and the cord.
An autopsy photograph shows the cord wrapped around the stick
seven times and spotted with royal blue and black paint.
Investigators have checked the paint on the stick against paint
in the Ramsey home.
“The stick could be very significant,” said one veteran
metro-area homicide investigator. “”Is it some memento of
someone’s journey there (to Korea), and where was it normally
kept? And where is the rest of it?”
Dr. Tom Henry, Denver’s chief medical examiner, said details
in Wednesday’s report probably were released last to allow time
for comparison with statements collected in the investigation.
“This would be one way to find out who’s telling the truth and
who’s not.”
But Henry and other forensic experts who have reviewed the
document stuck by earlier statements that the key to identifying
the killer isn’t in the autopsy report.
Arapahoe County Coroner Dr. Michael Dobersen cautioned
against reading too much into the autopsy. “”The findings are
only part of the whole story,” he said.
The information released Wednesday describes how the coroner
found JonBenet’s body covered with a blanket and a Colorado
Avalanche sweatshirt when he entered the home at 8:20 p.m. on
Dec. 26. The body lay face up, with arms over the head, Meyer
wrote.
Boulder detective Cmdr. John Eller declined to comment about
whether the release of the autopsy report will harm the
investigation, now into its eighth month. Nor would he comment
about evidence described in the autopsy report.
“It belongs in court,” he told The Denver Post.
Investigation continues
Eller said his detectives have been contacting about 35 sex
offenders registered in Boulder for possible connections to the
case. “”We’re looking for additional leads, information and to
shut down potential defenses,” Eller said.
He added that his investigators were “”out until about 2 a.m.
(Wednesday). They haven’t stopped. That needs to be stressed.”
Hal Haddon, John Ramsey’s attorney, said the newly released
information about the cord and stick supports the family’s
contention that the apparatus was brought into the Ramsey’s home.
“What it tells us is this was well planned. The way it was
knotted, the way it was constructed, it was clearly a planned
thing,” Haddon said.
In analyzing the ransom note, it too “”was
well planned and constructed in a very deliberate way,” he said.
JonBenet’s body was clothed in a long-sleeved white T-shirt
with a silver-sequined star on the front, white long underwear
and panties. The long underwear and panties were stained with
urine. The panties, which had the word “”Wednesday” on the
waistband, also were stained in the crotch with red spots up to
a half-inch in diameter.
Heart on her hand
She also was wearing a gold identification bracelet bearing her
name and the date Dec. 25, 1996. A cross hung on a gold chain
around her neck, and she wore a gold ring on the middle finger
of her right hand. A heart was drawn in red ink on the palm of
her left hand. Her hair was gathered in two ponytails, one on
the top of her head and another at the back.
“The urine doesn’t tell me very much because it’s very
common for the … bladder to relax” at the time of death,
(Tom) Henry said.
He said he assumed the stains were blood but that
it’s impossible to tell just from the autopsy report whether a
sexual assault took place.
Dobersen said, “”Most pathologists and physicians who have
looked at the report seem to lean in the direction of a sexual
assault as far as interpreting those injuries.”
Earlier releases from the report showed JonBenet died of
strangulation and an 8.5-inch-long skull fracture; it gives no
clue about which happened first. The girl also had injuries to
her genital area, but experts differ over whether she was
sexually assaulted.
No time of death
John Ramsey found his daughter’s body in the basement of their
home at 755 15th Street about 1:20 p.m. the day after Christmas.
He carried her upstairs, where someone covered the girl with the
Avalanche sweatshirt.
That morning, her mother had found a note demanding $118,000
for the girl’s safe return.
The autopsy report does not have an estimated time of death.
“I consider estimation of time of death to be an interpretive
finding rather than a factual statement,” Meyer explained in a
prepared statement that accompanied the report.
Still not released are reports on toxicology and other tests
on evidence collected from the body, including samples from
JonBenet’s blood, body orifices, hair, eyelashes, eyebrows and
clothing.
Meyer has long claimed that release of the report could harm
the investigation. Parts of the autopsy were released on Feb.
14. When the seal on the rest of the report came up for renewal
May 15, a district court judge ordered most of the rest
released. Meyer unsuccessfully appealed the release all the way
to the state supreme court.
Investigators from the police department and the district
attorney’s office are planning to visit the FBI in Quantico,
Va., in early September to confer on the case.
So far, District Attorney Alex Hunter, deputies Pete Hofstrom and Trip DeMuth and
special investigator Lou Smit, along with police Detectives Jane
Harmer, Steve Thomas, Ron Gosage, Tom Trujillo and Tom Wickman
are expected to make the trip.
Also Wednesday, the Boulder district attorney’s office said
that as of June 24, it had spent $70,669 investigating the
Ramsey murder. Expenses are running about $9,000 a month, said
spokeswoman Suzanne Laurion.
Published Aug. 8, 1997
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window in the news |
Posted by: jameson245 - 02-20-2017, 10:52 PM - Forum: Broken window/ Spider web
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A basement window was open, and the window well outside showed signs of fresh disturbance. But the police inexplicably rejected an officer's request to bring in police dogs to find a possible scent trail. Smit noticed leaves and debris, including foam packing peanuts, outside the house in the window well. Inside the basement, he saw similar leaves and foam peanuts, including one 60 feet away in the room where JonBenet was found--a possible sign an intruder coming through the window had tracked the debris through the basement. "The wind sure didn't blow those in there," Smit says. Smit also saw a fresh print from a Hi-Tec shoe, a brand no one in the family owned.
From Newsweek 3/19/2000
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Police tried to hide Lou's evidence |
Posted by: jameson245 - 02-20-2017, 10:50 PM - Forum: Stun Gun
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From "The Intruder Theory", a story published in Newsweek on 3/19/00
"Examining autopsy photos, Smit noticed unusual sets of abrasions on JonBenet's back and face. Smit wondered if they had been made by a stun gun--an unlikely weapon for a parent to use on a child. Smit measured the marks and discovered they matched a brand of stun gun called the Air Taser. He began to believe the killer may have used the stun gun on JonBenet as she slept, then carried her to the basement. The Boulder police were skeptical of Smit's stun-gun theory, and showed some of the autopsy pictures to Arapahoe County coroner Dr. Michael Doberson, who had researched stun-gun wounds. Doberson said he didn't think the marks were from a stun gun. But recently, NEWSWEEK asked Doberson to review Smit's stun-gun evidence. Doberson says the police never showed him Smit's pictures comparing the size and orientation of the marks with the electrical contacts on the Air Taser. He now calls Smit's stun-gun theory "compelling.""
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Partial list of neighbors |
Posted by: jameson245 - 02-20-2017, 03:39 AM - Forum: Neighbors
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SCHAFFNER, SABINE H 715 15TH ST HOLLAND, B 730 15TH ST
FORTIER, JEAN 743 15TH ST
STANTON, MELODY AND LUTHER 738 15TH ST BRUMFITT, DIANE 745 15TH ST
LIMERICK, JEFFREY W AND PATRICIA N 752 15TH ST
RAMSEY, JOHN B AND PATSY 755 15TH ST
BARNHILL, JOE AND BETTY 764 15TH ST
GIBBONS, SCOTT AND PRISCILLA FREEMAN 765 15TH ST
NUHN, AINSLEY AND KATI SNARE 774 15TH ST
CORNWELL, C H 777 15TH ST
VANN, PATRICK R 789 15TH ST
I am not sure this is correct, hopefully someone can help with this.
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