> When I first heard the news without much detail,
>I thought a sex offender had murdered JonBenet.

Yes, I too first thought it was a sex offender of some sort. Thats the usual assumption. And most of the time its a quite accurate one and therefore a perfectly reasonable assumption to make. Even without obvious signs of rape or grotesque posing of the corpse, the initial thoughts are always of some pervert.

I think it is only later, after the autopsy report, that it became a distinct possibility that the sexual activity might be too minimal to make the motive for the crime sexual. (Sure, some say that for certain people the strangulation was the sexual pleasure, but I'm limiting the use of the term 'sexual').

Never have I really felt there was any sort of parental involvement in the crime or in any sort of alleged cover-up.