I just can't understand why someone would take all that time to write the note, in the way it was written, just to fly into a rage and kill the victim and then take the time to place her in the windowless room.

I think DonBradley made a good point awhile back when he said the garotte was a planned element from the start, but the offender didn't want to be caught with it if he were discovered earlier in the crime. If that is so, it would explain what appears to be a sudden impulse in the basement. We know there was debris from the window well in the windowless room, so it looks to me like the offender passed right by that paintbrush tote before the Ramseys even came home that night.

I honestly do not believe the blow to the head was a mercy blow. I think it was meant to be a killing blow. Making doubly sure she was dead. Even if the head blow came first, that means he would have taken the time to construct and use his garotte. The offender really seems to have wanted this little girl dead. Did he want her dead just at that moment, or from the start? I don't know, but in the note there was considerable talk of killing her...beheading her.

I see no signs of panic in this crime. Even if there was a scream, JonBenet would have been outside the windowless room when it occurred, yet the offender went ahead and grabbed her up, blanket and all and deposited her in the room anyway? He didn't just throw her in there, either. He placed her in the room.

I think it is premeditated murder, calmly and deliberately carried out. No remorse. None at all.