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Dr. Phil was too hung on up DNA for Ramsey case


We pick up DNA everywhere. Look at it from a circumstantial case. A note that takes 22 minutes to write that was written in the house? Pen and paper put back where they were found? come on. Inside job.

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Dr. Phil or his producers may have paid the Ramseys to appear (I've heard his show has done that before). If that was the case, you don't want to put your guests in a badlight if you're paying them.

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Makes sense. I believe the family have convinced themselves that whatever they did that night, WAS NOT THEM, it was like a temporal insanity thing. the people they are are the ones who cared and loved for Jonbonet. You'd be surprised at how well murderers can convince themselves that it wasn't them because it was out of character.

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My theory (and this is just my theory based on the things I have read) is that Burke and jonbenet got into a fight (like siblings do). He hit her over the head with a hard object, she was unconscious and the parents flipped out, thought she was dead, and didn't want to have their other kid arrested and their good name tarnished (let's face it these people were all about appearances), so they staged the murder/kidnapping scene.

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There was the same DNA on two articles of her clothing and some underneath her fingernails. It may have a harmless explanation but it may not. All evidence should be examined.
Does it really take anyone 22 minutes to write a few pages? Some believe the intruder entered the house while they were away and waited for them to return. He/She would then have had time to write.

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Did you see that new special? They decided to write it, word for word, and it took about 22 minutes. The pen and paper were from different parts of the house and put back where they were. There were two failed attempts on the same pad before they did it.

The window the intruder allegedly entered through had cob-webs that were not disturbed. And it was a tight fit for a thin woman.

As for DNA, who knows if it's skin flakes from a visitor in the house that was on her clothes? Or an investigator? It certainly wasn't semen or blood, something that would be a definite link to the crime. To say they were exonerated because of it is ludicrous.

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I saw it. That CBS special was ridiculous. It was bias from the start. It wouldn't take that long to write it, especially just copying it.
Both were believed to come from inside the house. The pad was there. The pen wasn't found. Why leave the pad but take the pen and where was it taken?

They were in the corner. Lou Smit, a man, was shown to fit through it.

We don't know who the DNA belongs to and how it got there. No one has been tried and can still be.

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It wouldn't take that long to write it,


We have different perceptions of a long time. 22 minutes is a long time to linger at a crime scene.

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It wouldn't take 22 minutes to write it. It especially doesn't take that long, 22 minutes that is, to just copy it.

Intruders have broken into the homes of others. Sometimes killing people or even just one person and sometimes not. There have been many cases but some of the famous ones being the homes of Sharon Tate, Rebecca Schaeffer (to her door), David Letterman, Keanu Reeves, and Brad Pitt. Some like to spend time in the home living out a fantasy.

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Thank you for being so rational about this. I saw the CBS special as well. I was disappointed however, because it was originally going to be a 3-episode series. While I thought what I saw was well-done, I'm very curious about what was omitted and why.

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just saw this article on the DNA

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3883458/New-analysis-JonBenet-evidence-suggests-Ramsey-family-NOT-cleared-based-DNA-results-traces-multiple-people-victim-s-clothes.html

just want to say...from the crime scene photos...jon benet did NOT wet the bed that night...there was NO SNOW on the ground to leave footprints in (they said this lie to the ramseys to rattle them)

and the window was big enough for a man to climb in....

this new article does put some doubt on the dna.. that it is mixed of more than one person

whatever the truth is...whatever you believe I wanted to post those 2 facts ( no pee no footprints) it has been 20 years and a whole new generation is looking at this story;....
don't want these 2 mistakes repeated believed in another generation



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I think the DNA was a red herring.

What we got here is... failure to communicate!
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