I have been thinking about this, and I am on my third glass of scotch and had a Dale's Pale Ale to help the scotch along so let's do this.
Mom and Dad aren't garroting their frigging kid on Christmas eve. Any rich parent and any rich kid, no way. I am 47 years old and
I'm still psyched as hell at what I am going to get on Christmas. Christ, I *know* what I am getting; one box is in the mud room waiting for me to open it. I'm not slashing throats on Christmas eve. Nobody is on Christmas eve. RICH PEOPLE AREN'T. They haven't! We'll get to the note in a second, but the Ramseys didn't know what a goddamn garrote is. They didn't watch Speed so many times that they could quote it and put it in a note. John lost a daughter in a car crash from a previous marriage. I had a cat murdered a few years ago and cats
aren't children and it got and has gotten bad enough where my wife wants me to see a psychologist. I am obsessed with being kind to our current pets. Of course John didn't then go use a stun gun on his other daughter
on Christmas eve and then bash her head in and break her skull
on Christmas eve and then take her down to the basement to garrote her
on Christmas eve.
Also, the Netflix movie "The Staircase" taught us that if John DID do it, then he would have arranged for JonBenet to die in a car accident like his first deceased daughter did because there is nothing that family guys like more than consistency in their tragedies.
Nine-year olds? It's Christmas time. I dunno if, because of covid, you guys get to hang out with anyone in that age range, but even now with the internet , I defy any person in the US states of America to point to a
literal nine-year old and say, yep, this kid knows what a garrote is. You have to know what a garrote is, *and choose that method to execute your sister ON CHRISTMAS EVE* for this to work. Come on, come oooooooooooooooooon, this is 1996, pre-mass-internet. This is pre-mobile phone where the screwed up kid in class can text his favorite garroting images to the other children without adults knowing. No kid that age *now* knows a way to kill someone is by wrapping a wire around their neck and twisting it. Also! It is Christmastime! When I was nine years old all I could think about was getting the Sky Striker or Castle Greyskull or whatever. My little brother who - well, you guys have read his work on this BBS, he certainly has qualities that JonBenet didn't - was still completely incapable of behavior that was going to cause me to somehow spontaneously wrap piano wire around his neck and fuck up getting to play with "Ace" in 8, er 7, er 6, er 5 hours after we went to bed. Other kids have killed people, but no kid in the last 100 years of western civilization has killed a younger kid with piano wire. Adults have! Not children doing it to other children.
Christmas Eve! America has screwed up a lot of things but we have never made a rich kid so MESSED UP that he decides he's going to abandon CHRISTMAS because he needed to get to some violin wire killing. And then throw the duct tape that covered his sister's mouth so far from the house that the cops never found it. Someone explain this to me. One of the Ramseys slowly twists wire around the bashed-in head of their family member and then puts duct tape over the dead girl's mouth and then says, "Ope, gotta get rid of this!" and then just fuckin' yeets the roll of duct tape so far down the street in Boulder that it goes forever unfound. That's more likely than intruder taking it with him? Also, if JonBenet got killed on February 8th or April 12th or December 16th then sure. The brother was just the garroting type in that scenario so on a random day on a boring Tuesday he thought, yep, this is it, Imma do my one and only stun gunning and head crushing and garroting of my life, oh, and I'll never get so much as a speeding ticket for the rest of my life after I do this one crime against my sister on Christmas even instead of just going to sleep as soon as I can so I can get presents.
The ransom note, which I do not believe Patsy wrote, talks about JOHN. JonBenet is never mentioned by name. Talks about that "good Southern common sense" of his. Hmmm. He was originally from the south! The note mentions the rounded value of the bonus, which was on a pay stub laying around that an intruder in the house could have seen. (I don't get paper pay stubs but I did get a dividend check from Microsoft that I deposited today. Because I know how terrible web apps are, I am going to keep that until months after it hits my account. I work in web apps and most people that work in web apps are bad enough to where I am keeping the paper. And everyone kept their paper pay stubs around in 1996.) Man, hating a guy but knowing where he was raised and then knowing how much that guy got as a bonus?
Sounds like someone he worked with.
I ask anyone who thinks the Ramseys did it to go to glassdoor.com. After dealing with their sign-up bull shit (man... web apps) pick a random company. I'll make it easy and say, pick a random company in Colorado. People are chill in Colorado! And that is where the murder took place. Any company size, but let's say that there has to be .... 15 reviews for the company on the site. After finding a suitable company, now look at the reviews and play a game with me, play "identify the goddamn psychopath."
You will do it easily! Any company in the CHILLEST OF STATES has at least one one-star review where it seems like Chris fucking Watts wrote the review.
I just ran that thought experiment. "Zoom" was the first company to come up. Here's the lowest-rated review.
Dec 17, 2021 - Anonymous Employee in San Jose, CA
You are building one of the most popular video conference software since covid 19. Or perhaps I am wrong, you are enhancing minor features and minor bug fixes.
Cons
Toxic engineering culture, need to work with the original engineering team in China pretty much every night to be on track. You don't have permission to merge the code, your peers in China can merge the code. You are just a robot to build minor features and fix bugs. Engineering managers only care about themselves, when there is a probably, it is the engineers' responsibility, not theirs. Engineers needs to communicate with PM's and designers, managers just sit and watch. If you can't speak Chinese, you gonna have a hard time working as an engineer with the China team, Chinese all over the zoom chats, prepare your Google Translate.
So that's a bad review and the guy is a little hung up on people from China. Not a big deal right? Weird but who cares? Well, the CEO of Zoom at the moment is ASIAN. One randomly-picked one-star review that a guy was bold enough to add to the internet and he's got some weird problem with Chinese people working for an Asian boss. It is important to me that you all know that the Zoom thing was literally the first thing glassdoor came up with when I did it and I did not spend time picking the perfect review. This guy hates his boss! Or his boss's boss's boss's boss! HE WROTE IT EIGHT DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS! Man, I sure hope the CEO of Zoom locks his fucking doors. Days before Christmas and this guy *hates Zoom so much* that he took time out of his day to write all that. In public.
So this is why it was, in my opinion, someone that John Ramsey once worked with.
If I was on this case and I saw that note and we discard all the dumb shit the author came up with (foreign faction, "I advise you to be rested", an "adequate-sized attache case", SBTC and other dumb nonsense) what we have here is an angry ex-coworker. Any job. Probably not even Access Graphics! Maybe the the Boulder cops and Lou Smit looked at everyone... *everyone* Ramsey ever worked with and their significant others and discounted them. Maybe they did that, but I doubt it. Smit died, so he ain't doing it now. That is where I would start at this point. The murderer didn't want to get caught and wanted to put nonsense in there to cause chaos, but also wanted to put just enough in there so that *he* knew in *his* mind that he stuck it to John. Not enough to get caught, but enough where if we ever found the murderer, we could work backwards and the note would make more sense.
To me, is a case of someone who felt wronged at work due to what, in their mind, this SOB manager or co-worker of theirs did. I think it was someone in their late-20s who is arrogant as hell and wasn't in a good spot where the outrage from the past had passed and they could let stuff go. No, this intruder was consumed by it and thought that John was a jerk and OOOO I am going to kill his daughter and OOO I am going to do it on Christmas because fuck him and OOOO if I can make it look like his wife did it I will and OOOO I am going to put in the exact bonus amount as a "fuck you" because there will be people that don't know that I saw the pay stub and they will just assume they used their own rounded bonus amount.
...
... Or Burke thought he could get his sister's presents too and had a time machine where he saw a Youtube channel dedicated to the "Hitman" video games. Either/or.
I have been thinking about this, and I am on my third glass of scotch and had a Dale's Pale Ale to help the scotch along so let's do this.
Mom and Dad aren't garroting their frigging kid on Christmas eve. Any rich parent and any rich kid, no way. I am 47 years old and [b]I'm[/b] still psyched as hell at what I am going to get on Christmas. Christ, I *know* what I am getting; one box is in the mud room waiting for me to open it. I'm not slashing throats on Christmas eve. Nobody is on Christmas eve. RICH PEOPLE AREN'T. They haven't! We'll get to the note in a second, but the Ramseys didn't know what a goddamn garrote is. They didn't watch Speed so many times that they could quote it and put it in a note. John lost a daughter in a car crash from a previous marriage. I had a cat murdered a few years ago and cats [i]aren't children[/i] and it got and has gotten bad enough where my wife wants me to see a psychologist. I am obsessed with being kind to our current pets. Of course John didn't then go use a stun gun on his other daughter [i]on Christmas eve[/i] and then bash her head in and break her skull [i]on Christmas eve[/i] and then take her down to the basement to garrote her [i]on Christmas eve[/i].
Also, the Netflix movie "The Staircase" taught us that if John DID do it, then he would have arranged for JonBenet to die in a car accident like his first deceased daughter did because there is nothing that family guys like more than consistency in their tragedies.
Nine-year olds? It's Christmas time. I dunno if, because of covid, you guys get to hang out with anyone in that age range, but even now with the internet , I defy any person in the US states of America to point to a [b]literal nine-year old[/b] and say, yep, this kid knows what a garrote is. You have to know what a garrote is, *and choose that method to execute your sister ON CHRISTMAS EVE* for this to work. Come on, come oooooooooooooooooon, this is 1996, pre-mass-internet. This is pre-mobile phone where the screwed up kid in class can text his favorite garroting images to the other children without adults knowing. No kid that age *now* knows a way to kill someone is by wrapping a wire around their neck and twisting it. Also! It is Christmastime! When I was nine years old all I could think about was getting the Sky Striker or Castle Greyskull or whatever. My little brother who - well, you guys have read his work on this BBS, he certainly has qualities that JonBenet didn't - was still completely incapable of behavior that was going to cause me to somehow spontaneously wrap piano wire around his neck and fuck up getting to play with "Ace" in 8, er 7, er 6, er 5 hours after we went to bed. Other kids have killed people, but no kid in the last 100 years of western civilization has killed a younger kid with piano wire. Adults have! Not children doing it to other children.
Christmas Eve! America has screwed up a lot of things but we have never made a rich kid so MESSED UP that he decides he's going to abandon CHRISTMAS because he needed to get to some violin wire killing. And then throw the duct tape that covered his sister's mouth so far from the house that the cops never found it. Someone explain this to me. One of the Ramseys slowly twists wire around the bashed-in head of their family member and then puts duct tape over the dead girl's mouth and then says, "Ope, gotta get rid of this!" and then just fuckin' yeets the roll of duct tape so far down the street in Boulder that it goes forever unfound. That's more likely than intruder taking it with him? Also, if JonBenet got killed on February 8th or April 12th or December 16th then sure. The brother was just the garroting type in that scenario so on a random day on a boring Tuesday he thought, yep, this is it, Imma do my one and only stun gunning and head crushing and garroting of my life, oh, and I'll never get so much as a speeding ticket for the rest of my life after I do this one crime against my sister on Christmas even instead of just going to sleep as soon as I can so I can get presents.
The ransom note, which I do not believe Patsy wrote, talks about JOHN. JonBenet is never mentioned by name. Talks about that "good Southern common sense" of his. Hmmm. He was originally from the south! The note mentions the rounded value of the bonus, which was on a pay stub laying around that an intruder in the house could have seen. (I don't get paper pay stubs but I did get a dividend check from Microsoft that I deposited today. Because I know how terrible web apps are, I am going to keep that until months after it hits my account. I work in web apps and most people that work in web apps are bad enough to where I am keeping the paper. And everyone kept their paper pay stubs around in 1996.) Man, hating a guy but knowing where he was raised and then knowing how much that guy got as a bonus?
Sounds like someone he worked with.
I ask anyone who thinks the Ramseys did it to go to glassdoor.com. After dealing with their sign-up bull shit (man... web apps) pick a random company. I'll make it easy and say, pick a random company in Colorado. People are chill in Colorado! And that is where the murder took place. Any company size, but let's say that there has to be .... 15 reviews for the company on the site. After finding a suitable company, now look at the reviews and play a game with me, play "identify the goddamn psychopath."
You will do it easily! Any company in the CHILLEST OF STATES has at least one one-star review where it seems like Chris fucking Watts wrote the review.
I just ran that thought experiment. "Zoom" was the first company to come up. Here's the lowest-rated review.
[quote]
Dec 17, 2021 - Anonymous Employee in San Jose, CA
You are building one of the most popular video conference software since covid 19. Or perhaps I am wrong, you are enhancing minor features and minor bug fixes.
Cons
Toxic engineering culture, need to work with the original engineering team in China pretty much every night to be on track. You don't have permission to merge the code, your peers in China can merge the code. You are just a robot to build minor features and fix bugs. Engineering managers only care about themselves, when there is a probably, it is the engineers' responsibility, not theirs. Engineers needs to communicate with PM's and designers, managers just sit and watch. If you can't speak Chinese, you gonna have a hard time working as an engineer with the China team, Chinese all over the zoom chats, prepare your Google Translate.
[/quote]
So that's a bad review and the guy is a little hung up on people from China. Not a big deal right? Weird but who cares? Well, the CEO of Zoom at the moment is ASIAN. One randomly-picked one-star review that a guy was bold enough to add to the internet and he's got some weird problem with Chinese people working for an Asian boss. It is important to me that you all know that the Zoom thing was literally the first thing glassdoor came up with when I did it and I did not spend time picking the perfect review. This guy hates his boss! Or his boss's boss's boss's boss! HE WROTE IT EIGHT DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS! Man, I sure hope the CEO of Zoom locks his fucking doors. Days before Christmas and this guy *hates Zoom so much* that he took time out of his day to write all that. In public.
So this is why it was, in my opinion, someone that John Ramsey once worked with.
If I was on this case and I saw that note and we discard all the dumb shit the author came up with (foreign faction, "I advise you to be rested", an "adequate-sized attache case", SBTC and other dumb nonsense) what we have here is an angry ex-coworker. Any job. Probably not even Access Graphics! Maybe the the Boulder cops and Lou Smit looked at everyone... *everyone* Ramsey ever worked with and their significant others and discounted them. Maybe they did that, but I doubt it. Smit died, so he ain't doing it now. That is where I would start at this point. The murderer didn't want to get caught and wanted to put nonsense in there to cause chaos, but also wanted to put just enough in there so that *he* knew in *his* mind that he stuck it to John. Not enough to get caught, but enough where if we ever found the murderer, we could work backwards and the note would make more sense.
To me, is a case of someone who felt wronged at work due to what, in their mind, this SOB manager or co-worker of theirs did. I think it was someone in their late-20s who is arrogant as hell and wasn't in a good spot where the outrage from the past had passed and they could let stuff go. No, this intruder was consumed by it and thought that John was a jerk and OOOO I am going to kill his daughter and OOO I am going to do it on Christmas because fuck him and OOOO if I can make it look like his wife did it I will and OOOO I am going to put in the exact bonus amount as a "fuck you" because there will be people that don't know that I saw the pay stub and they will just assume they used their own rounded bonus amount.
...
... Or Burke thought he could get his sister's presents too and had a time machine where he saw a Youtube channel dedicated to the "Hitman" video games. Either/or.