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My admittedly non-cop guts tell me it wasn't random.
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All of his books are so good!
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Avocado is something I want to like. I keep trying it, and I can't get past the texture.
Not that it's important whether or not you join those of us who like avocados, but if you dig the taste but not the texture, maybe try mashing it and using it as a sandwich spread? I do that sometimes with my "on the brink" ones--take that, you little tricky bastards! I gotcha before you could get me!
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I didn't even think of it like a doc, actually--more like a showcase of info snippets. And, yes, I have always seen the odd stuff that makes me dubious about the Ramseys. However, in the intervening years since I thought they did it, I changed my mind as I learned more about crime and investigation, and as more and more less-biased info was available to me. I no longer think of stuff pointing to them as culprits, but as pointing to them as oddballs.
I always thought the Burke theory was flat-out ridiculous.-
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WRT to this "documentary" -- it was just...bad. They couldn't even get the initial caps right in the title card! I should have known right then to turn it off.
Thank you! I noticed a ton of shit like this throughout.
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All I know is that I am in for a penny, in for a pound--is that the saying? Whatever, I'ma watch all this nonsense over here (and probably get all fired up all over again)!
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A friend suggested that it's maybe due to the popularity of the O.J. doc and the miniseries--wait, is the JonBenét miniseries from the same producers of the O.J. one (named "American Crime," I think, followed by a colon, then the topic)?
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That wily Dr. Phil finally found a way to lure me to his show.
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My ex-BF once spitballed that Patsy sold JonBenét to the devil in exchange for cancer remission. At the time, it was as rational an idea as anything else, I suppose...
It just really sucks that the police were not so much trying to solve a crime as they were trying to close a case.
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I think they couldn't find it (along with the paintbrush pieces), Maharincess. Which could be construed as odd, considering the legal pad was there.
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Did the police extensively fingerprint the house? I'm really asking, because I don't know. The fact that they let hundreds of people tromp through their house in an annual "Christmas Homes Display" would possibly make random fingerprinting rather moot.
I feel like I read that the crime-scene people were there for a while (though what constitutes "a while"?) so we could assume they at least tried to get everything (unless there's some hanky-panky with the cops telling them to be lax to support their theory, but that's just me speculating). The show did mention something about reopening and using more sophisticated methods...but that Christmas tour is a real science killer.
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How much DNA was found? If the intruder was in the house for hours - walking around the house - wouldn't there be quite a bit? And if the intruder was smart enough to make certain to not leave a finger print or more than one hair -- but then leave his DNA on her underwear -- why would he make such a stupid mistake?
Not sure what you're asking--we leave DNA all over the place all the time (and the amounts are detailed in last night's show and online, etc., etc.). Even if the perpetrator (who I doubt was counting hairs, haha!) cleaned up, it's unlikely s/he'd get everything, especially from clothing unless s/he took it all away from the scene. As for finding it elsewhere in the house, maybe there is, maybe there's not--by letting everyone and his mom into the house, the cops made sure that it would be near impossible to figure that all out. Plus, gloves; it's possible someone would have them on up until the moment s/he was able to touch JonBenét.
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How come the Ramseys spent a ton of money on lawyers, a public relations agency and a detective to prove that they didn't kill their daughter? Why not spend that money on a team of detectives to find the real killer?
They probably (and rightfully) assumed that the existing team of detectives (which the Ramseys' tax money already paid for) would do that job. Paying for attorneys is nothing out of the ordinary for anyone (though there is some ire about how quickly they got one, which was explained last night), much less rich people. Same with PR management when something gets so sensationalized by dubious media outlets.
Do you mean Lou Smit? The Ramseys didn't hire him; the DA did.-
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There is, and it's inside my head--and has been taking up valuable space there for two decades!
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For no particular reason, I have always found Patsy Ramsey off-putting but I have no idea if she flaunted their wealth or was anything but attentive to JonBenét at the pageant events (which, by the way, look positively appropriate and tame compared to what I've seen on Toddlers & Tiaras--public admittance notwithstanding). Also, it was pretty well known that John Ramsey was very affluent even without a bonus, so I don't know that a flippant mention of the exact bonus amount would set someone off concocting a plan. I'm not shooting down your thoughts or anything, just trying to think of how that would go down; I feel like even if Patsy was a braggart, would she say the exact amount as opposed to "over $100,000" or rounding up to $120,000?
QuoteTotal psychopath and another thing that points away from the parents.
Yeah. And this would be very strange for someone's--either John's or Patsy's--first violent offense (not to say that it unequivocally is or isn't one, but that we have no record of similar prior behavior on their parts).
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Oh, Yokosmom, I think we're soulmates! I was thinking about all of that stuff last night!
QuoteI just can't figure out if it was an intruder. To break into the house, find their way around, grab things to be used to duck tape, go get the girl duck tape and kill her either in her room or the room she was found, then write out a really long ransom note. Wouldn't that take a long time to do all of that? And while there were still people in the house?
Someone could have entered long before the Ramseys returned home. And if that someone were a person that knew the family, it would not be too difficult to round up supplies. And don't forget that weird Christmas tour of the house too--lots of friends, plus acquaintances and near strangers traipsing through. Who knows if they showed off that fancy-pants wine cellar, but maybe mentioned it?
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You can see how out of the way the wine cellar is (and how huge the whole thing is).
Haha, I love how they call that dingy room a wine cellar! Also, thanks--along with stomach contents I have a weird preoccupation with floor plans. Makes my BF crazy because I get distracted during movies (Paranormal Activity 3, WTF was up with that house?!). Also, these Ramseys had two laundry rooms?!
QuoteHow else do you explain the pineapple? Either the Ramsey's were lying about what happened that night when they got home or someone JonBenet knew and or trusted opened some pineapple for her to eat and she ate it. I'm not exactly sure how stun guns work but if she was stunned in her room when did she eat the pineapple? How do you explain the fingernail marks on her kneck (the theory is that she was alive when she was strangled and tried to save her own life by clawing at the noose around her neck. If she was stunned would she be conscious enough to do that?
Stun guns' effectiveness/damage to a person depends on that person's size and the amount of time the...stunning probes (?)...are applied. I think we could reasonably assert that JonBenét would be at least close to unconsciousness from even a one-second zap, I guess, but maybe not down for the count--otherwise why the duct tape? Of course, I'm speculating here, considering the up-in-the-airness about the stun gun or the chronology of events. And the pineapple was supposedly already sitting out in a bowl on a counter or table (who does that?!); no need for someone to open anything prepare it for her.
Also, there's the whole deal with the blanket covering her. Often, bodies are concealed in this way not to hide them (because, blanket or not, she was still right in the middle of the floor) but as a respect/love/protection kind of thing, indicating that the killer likely cared for her in some regard.
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If it was an intruder, I don't believe it was a random stranger.
I am with you here, to the extent that I find it very plausible that (a) it was someone the Ramseys knew, though I don't currently believe they in any way conspired to cover it up, or (b) it was someone who knew the Ramseys but not necessarily the other way around.
QuoteAlso, how did no one hear this happen? I guess I'm just a light sleeper and wake up to any sound when my kids are in the house. My house is also small.
That's where the stun gun theory comes in, I guess--that it was used on her before taking her from her bedroom. Once you get into that kooky-ass basement room (which, IIRC, was off of a couple of other minor basement rooms), no one would likely hear anything. It seems like that house had a seriously labyrinthine layout, man--which supports the theory that it was someone who knew the Ramseys and their home.
Quote"those hippie arachnids" A+
Haha! I rarely read recaps anymore, but I was hoping you'd be doing this one!
Quotethis is information I feel like I already had, and chasing down that lead is what I want to see onscreen
YES! This is why I wanted you to do it! This is exactly why I get pissed off at various (and sensationalistic) true-crime TV shows--not enough investigation procedure detailed for me!
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The insistence that a cobweb proved nobody could have entered through the grate is also ridiculous - spiders can spin those suckers in no time.
I know! While I am not in Boulder and have no idea what those hippie arachnids get up to there, I regularly (and somewhat guiltily) clean the cobwebs from my balcony and they're always back within a day or two. Between that and the grate, it's like the cops thought that just because they said it out loud, people would blindly believe it. Come on--the first time I saw that grate and the window, it was obvious to me that an adult could easily get through them both! So that reporter in the footage with her "you'd have to be a contortionist" business can shut up too.
The other thing that has always pissed me off was the cops' sometimes attitude of "bear with us, we don't get a lot of homicide here" juxtaposed with bristling at the suggestion of FBI assistance. Which is it--you've got it covered or you're a bit green (the latter of which is nothing to be ashamed of)?
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this here is what I wanted to say. Ya'll have phones. If you're so beat about not seeing your cousin or her husband, go over there, it's a 5 minute car ride.
Other than this (it's about 20, haha!), I am with you on your post! I feel like there is craziness all around these people where no craziness needs to be! Rosie, chill!
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That and why would they put the notepad away in plain sight while getting rid of paintbrush pieces, duct tape, and a stun gun (not that police actually believed there to be a stun gun in the first place)? Although...I guess it could be plausible that an inexperienced killer would only think to ditch the actual implements of the murder as opposed to a run-of-the-mill legal pad that never touched the victim.
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unless they were rifling through the Ramsey's checkbook, how would they have known what John was getting for a yearly bonus?
YES! This is one of those "points right at the Ramseys" examples, among all the ones that do the opposite! Seriously, WTF?! I remember that there was a disgruntled-employee theory at a time too.
I was also surprised that they didn't detail more of that completely bizarro ransom note...though that has been done a million times over and wouldn't have been anything new.-
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I've wondered about this before, and almost asked about it in the random chat thread...but didn't know how to bring it up without possibly offending people from the Garden State, or Italian-Americans.
Haha, I'm trying to figure out what wording would be used that could offend those of us from Jersey! Surely Joe's behavior isn't something that anyone would mistakenly attribute to an entire state with an extremely varied populace. For example, I'm all of 10 minutes from these HWs (and also 10 minutes in the other direction from a super-rural area) and I am often surprised when I see people out in restaurants or bars dressed/acting like them (same thing goes for those Jersey Shore people; yeah, we have those types roaming about...but lots of us laugh at that "style").
ETA: My BF delivered something to Teresa's the other day. He was petting the dog, who is no longer pink.-
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Avocados: infuriatingly delicious.
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S08.E03: Ruffled Feathers
in Ink Master
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I hate this for so many reasons! Anyone who's been tattooed a bunch already, like many of the canvases we see on this show, knows perfectly well that you can get only so much in X amount of time--or rather, you can get only so much good work in X amount of time. And for those of us with many tattoos who are watching the show because of our interest in tattoos, or even those without any at all who just love the art form, it stinks--we all want to see amazing work, no? I do like seeing the rare negotiations that happen between a tattooist and canvas (my tattoo guy better not refer to me as such!) addressing time and size, though it seems like the show itself discourages this, and even wants the canvas to act unreasonably*. I'd rather see an artist do good work, if unfinished in the case of outlandish expectations/demands, with the promise to complete it later, or at least skillfully leaving it at a logical stopping point that can easily be taken over by another tattooist in the future. It's even more infuriating that the judges cooperate with this when they are lifers in the tattoo business--they know perfectly well that six hours is not enough for what that one peacock lady wanted, for example! In real life, no good artist would stake his business and reputation by promising something like that in only six hours (and believe me, I wish it was possible; I hate having more than one session for a tattoo--I want that thing done in a sitting...but I also want it beautiful, which is ultimately more important. Also, a tattooist is not a robot, s/he is a person--hands do get tired, as do eyes. Do you really want your artist pushing through these things in discomfort just because you're impatient? Because if so, I'm betting you'll be sorry later!).
I get it's a contest, and that time management plays a huge role in it (the same issues apply to Project Runway...but it's not permanently marking people's skin we're talking about, and the artists on PR are dealing only with themselves and fabric, not the variable of a person in a chair). But is this a race or a competition about good tattoos? I would prefer the latter.
I don't actually mind the out-of-the-norm palette for the peacock. As long as the peacock is readable as a peacock, why not if you prefer those colors? (I have a wolf wearing a crown for no reason other than I liked the idea of it, so don't go by me, haha!)
* I have a very tattooed friend who was on an episode and she told me that they basically made her ask for an unreasonable amount of work for the time frame.