LAST EDITED ON Nov-04-02 AT 02:24 PM (EST)
 
I studied the note content years ago.

The crime movie quotes, in my opinion, would be likely made by a film critic. A person who watches those movies might be obsessed enough to remember the words but to use them in a ransom note is another level, i.e., a planning level requiring months. So that is why I feel those quotes are from a film critic who would normally review films repetitively in an effort to critique them. Janet McReynolds, who previously had written a play regarding a girl tortured in a basement, would seem to be a likely suspect involved in the composition.

The dollar amount $118,000, although close to John Ramsey's bonus the prior year, would probably have been derived from Bible Psalm 118, which relates to sacrifice for the purpose of praise to God. I believe the timing and method of death was intended as an ancient Celtic style human sacrifice.

Only someone who is knowledgable of ancient punishment of death for incest would leave the dictionary opened to the word. That and the Bible reference Psalm 118 and the opening of John's Bible to other Psalms leads me to believe only someone with a strong Biblical upbringing would do those things. Bill McReynolds is (was) a person familiar with the Ramseys, with Shaker upbringing, who could easily have had such ideas and worked out a plan to "sacrifice" JonBenet.

There is in my opinion a cryptic message hidden in the note which reveals it's purpose...simply another clue to the killer's identity.