What the BPD can't get past, IMO, is what the FBI told them earlier in the investigation, which probably went something like this: "This has every 'earmark' of a parental involvement- a false kidnapping report, the body was found in the house, covered with a blanket, the scene made to look like something it was not-and other items all outlined in their how-to manual "Mindhunters". This was, again, IMO, a knee jerk analysis based on their profiling techniques, which, as we have seen demonstrated in the recent sniper case, is not always accurate or helpful, and may even be counter productive.

Now, if you know the Ramseys could not have done this crime you have to ask yourselves who would have gone to the trouble of creating this somewhat bizarre type of crime scene. It absolutely makes no sense for a non-guilty, or even a guilty parent(s) to do any of the note, garotte, etc. The only way it makes sense to me is if someone else wanted to make sure the Rams called in a kidnapping to immediately bring in the FBI and their false-kidnapping-profile-sure-fire-parental-involvement-detector which is carefully outlined in chapter 15 of "Mindhunters" along with some other items which were thrown in to help the investigators make the connection.

A couple of mysterious phone calls suggesting how or why the parents were involved were made-I'm thinking of the ball bat swinging Patsy rumor, to match the bat strategically placed at the side of the house where it could not be missed, and the bedwetting Christmas stressors rumor, to match the pull ups carefully left hanging half-way out of the open drawer- and the reported eerie diagnosis of "incest" by an agitated journalist weeks before any autopsy information was released, which of course was matched by the dictionary dog-eared to the word "incest".

The death of a spouse on the 26th. of December with subsequent staging and cover up is explained as stressor triggered. The body was hidden to spare the little son the horror of seeing his mother's body. All this in Mindhunters along with the number 118 (serial killers interviewed for the FBI profiling database), a windowless room, a discussion of the notes that killers leave behind and why.

All this says to me that someone read all this and for reasons only known to them, decided to frame the parents for the already cruel murder of their daughter. I can only imagine that someone who resented them very much would go to the trouble to do so. The intruder/killer must have thought that one of the parents, John the fat cat, must have been involved with his daughter. In view of the fact that there was/is no evidence of that, the killer must have had some personal traumatic history involving incest that caused him to transfer/project a belief of guilt onto the Ramseys. Perhaps the pageant involvement was the precipitating item that convinced the perp they were practicing incest. It does not seem coincidental to me that this is the exact philosophy and prejudice of ##### Hickock, of IN COLD BLOOD fame. Truman Capote recounts #####'s hatred of rich guys who have the beauty contestant girlfriends/wives. ##### excuses his own purient interest in prepubescent girls by imagining that all men have these "feelings" yet the rich have money and lawyers to keep them out of trouble. We learn this as he tries to seduce a 10 year old girl at the beach, after the Clutter family murders, where he takes the girl's hand and calls her his "little sweetheart". The entire focus of the book concerns the motivation for their crime. In the murderer's mind people like the Ramseys are reason for society's problems and he perhaps wanted to make a political-societal statement.

Mikie, I can't see this person as a practicing believer bent on enforcing morality on everyone else and inflicting punishment on them such as was the case with Kevin Spacey in "Seven". Rather, this is a person who resents religious people, thinks them hypocrytes, and wishes to display them as such to the world. They may have had some strict religious background from which they drew a knowledge of scripture but they have turned their back on spiritual truth. It's all a big joke to him. This may be a factor for sacrificing another Christian martyr on "St. Stephens Day", 2000 years after the birth of Christ as well, or the Winter Solstice, a day of pagan celebration and sacrifice.