Recanted to WHO? I understand she told Charlie Brennan that she was confused - - maybe it had been another night, not the night of the murder at all.

Maybe she recanted to the Ramsey family's own investigator, Ellis Armistead. I know you have your differences with him, but your opinion of him does not matter; what matters is what opinion was held of him by John and Patsy themselves, who were happy with him for three-and-a-half years. His opinion on Melody Stanton as of December 2001:

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_912274,00.html

And he learned that much of what the public considered "evidence" in the case, was something less. For example, Armistead is unsurprised that former Ramsey neighbor Melody Stanton, who reported hearing a scream the night JonBenet died, now believes she heard it two nights before the murder -- if she heard one at all.

"The 'scream in the night' thing, I put it in the classification of a lot of this quote, unquote, other evidence," Armistead said. "It became more and more unreliable, as the case progressed."