"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."

I've often wondered if the missing pages, assumed to be practice notes, may have had that added punch you are referring to. In writing that note, the NoteWriter would have to be careful he did not give away any self identifiers. When NoteWriter starts talking about killing JonBenét, I see plenty of punch...decapitation? Shades of Adam Walsh whose father is one of the most well known men in the world. The figurehead for what all parents fear the most? By talking about what would happen to his daughter, extensively, the perp was telling John this is personal without actually saying it. When NoteWriter said the two gentlemen did not particularly like John, he directly contradicted what he said earlier in the note...this isn't personal. He couldn't say he or anyone he knew loathed John because that would send the police straight to searchng for anyone with even a remote agenda for revenge. NoteWriter couldn't help himself, though, he had to get a few little digs in there as non-descript as they were.

I doubt the offender knew how the police investigation would go beyond the fact that they would be looking for him. Whatever came after was a result of the political atmosphere of LE in Boulder over which the offender had little or no control.

As far as the superfluous words in the note, I think a much more careful reading is in order. I think the perp used an economy of words to get his point across without revealing his identity. He HAD to make this crime look like something else, IMO.

I agree, though, the goal was not to set up the Ramseys. He could have done a much better job of it if that were his goal.