https://charlierose.com/videos/12383 "Ann Louise Bardach of Vanity Fair and Gregg McCrary, retired special agent of the FBI, discuss the JonBenét ransom note and the implications to the guilt of John and Patsy Ramsey.
it is what Gregg McCrary says that confirms an earlier point I made.
From the transcript which is nearly perfect:
"7:14Ann Louise Bardach: --was, in fact, one of Patsy Ramsey's paintbrushes. Now, you could say that sounds very incriminating, but you can-- what the defense team will argue is, ''Well, someone broke in and took her paintbrush and broke it in half and created a garrote.'' But in fact, it was made-- she was an amateur painter and it was made from her supplies. What Gregg said is absolutely true, is you have just a, you know, kind of a big pile of circumstantial evidence and-- but no one, big smoking gun. You have a kind of cleaned-up, sanitized crime scene. Somebody, you know, cleaned up the scene. A lot of people-- a lot of the experts believe the child was re-dressed. You know, her clothes were-- there's controversy about was she re-dressed or not. Her clothes look pretty tidy and clean for somebody who was brutally bludgeoned and strangled. And she also-- one of the things that's in this story is, is that there's odd touches. She's found in this basement storage room, but found with her is her very, very favorite possession in the world, according to one of her relatives, her pageant nightgown. It's, you know, snuggled up with her. Well, usually, if you're going in to kill a child, you wouldn't bother to get their favorite thing and put it alongside them. I mean, as Gregg would tell you, you know, they-- they seize children, kill them and throw them in a ditch.18:32Charlie Rose: Yeah.18:34Ann Louise Bardach: You know, you don't put your favorite blanket over them and that kind of--18:38Charlie Rose: Yeah? Gregg?18:40Gregg McCrary: This evidence-- again, that's evidence that-- all offender behavior is significant and when you look at that, it deals with caring and concern.
And if you have caring and concern-- as paradoxical as it may sound, you have that at homicide scenes. But what that tells you is that's usually indicative of a pre-existing relationship. Even though there's been a homicide, still there's caring and concern for the victim. So again, that's one more thing that weighs against-- weighs against a stranger. And if I might make one other point, as well? When Ann was talking about this idea that some of the-- apparently, the district attorneys believe that the Ramseys couldn't have done it because they're good Christians, they're nice people and so forth. This is the wrong way to go about an investigation. And this is a-- this is a trap that people fall into sometimes. We want child killers -- especially child killers, a heinous crime -- to be different than you and I and we're not comfortable when they are like us. We want them to have a hunchback and drool, one eye in the center of their forehead and drag a leg behind them when they walk and all that. The reality is, though, that murders and child murders are committed by people who are otherwise very nice people and we just don't want that to be true. And it's an unsettling thing and sometimes people have trouble getting over it, but can't be what drives the investigation. The facts have to drive the investigation and the theories have to emerge from the facts, not some preconception whether someone could do this or not do it."
