LAST EDITED ON Feb-14-04 AT 00:39 AM (EST)
 
>Watch "Richochet"again and watch the bad guy complain at the end, "It's not fair...you should suffer for ever"(or something like that ).

The note and the movie lines/themes and the marked up picture indicate a vendetta. By the same token, it could be the perp's own idea of a movie script (ie: role-playing...copycat crime). If he knew about the death of Beth, pre-planned murder of the youngest daughter and sexually assaulting her would surely be almost more then one person could bear. The note tends to shift the outcome on JR....so I'm not completely convinced it wasn't pre-meditated murder.

However, something about the way the note sounds, lacks punch...and seems to lack a real passion for a personal vendetta. Unless the perp were directing the investigation, how could he possibly have known the coroner would miss the stun gun marks....the police would think someone in the house wrote the note....would miss signs of an intruder by the basement window? That his DNA wouldn't be found? They know who the perp is by his DNA---they just haven't been able to put a name to it. How did the perp know that the police wouldn't thoroughly search the house and find JBR earlyon? I think he would have done a much better job of setting John Ramsey up, by planting porn and drugs, and he could have written a shorter note that still got his "personal" grudge across to JR. Something that didn't have 3 pages of his handwriting. Most of that note contains superfluous words.

The outcome must have been icing on the cake, but I don't think this perp was that smart or cunning to be able to predict how the police investigation would go---I think he got out of Dodge fast---thinking he had really screwed up, because I don't think he meant to kill JBR---just cause a commotion when the note was made public...and I think he thought he could get some cash as well.