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Message ID: 36
#36, RE: Don, you're obviously within the
Posted by DonBradley on Dec-06-02 at 07:05 AM
In response to message #33
>I'm convinced this killer is not sophisticated or clever.
I see it as a distinct possibility, however, I would hesitate to use the term 'convinced'. I hesitate to bring in items that properly belong in other threads but there was what I would term a 'penumbra' surrounding the Ramseys. This 'penumbra' of evil was totally unknown to them and I think to a high degree, unknowable to them due to their being so honest and open people.

By 'penumbra of evil' I am referring to such things as: McSanta who injected himself into the Ramsey's life (oh, I know he 'claimed' that Patsy approached him at the Pearl Street Deli, but he approached Patsy and the kids), McSanta being a 'closet gay' or atleast having had a long term habit of viewing male nudes, etc. Or Mrs.Santa whose movie reviews seemed to always dwell on death and evil, no matter what the movie was about. I would even include the Whites, not so much for any 'overt evil' but more simply as being "mooches or leeches" whichever term you care to use. And Pricilla White being so 'mean spirited' in her behavior.

With all these questionable characters around the place, I find it hard to say "convinced", particularly with the white tape on the balcony door indicating prior knowledge of door color and prior access to the house.

> More likely, he's been lucky
>(1) the crime scene wound up as contaminated as it did and
>(2) that LE refused offers of assistance from anyone with
>homicide experience and (3) that LE saw fit to focus
>attention on the wrong suspects, wasting time, money, and
>manpower.
Yes, although I would add that it was not so much 'crime scene contamination' as a very cursory forensic effort. Lou Smit is very loathe to criticise his fellow LE personnel or institutions, but lets face it, the BPD forensic team didn't have their heart in the job at all. "The parents did it, any evidence we find will be explained away by them as 'we live here' so lets not do any more than go through the motions in a perfunctory manner". Oh no one may have actually said that, but I think thats what the BPD forensics team thought. Remember, at first the BPD forensics team wasn't even going to be sent into the house at all. Trip DeMeuth forced them to get sent in.

I would also add that the most important 'luck' for some otherwise hapless incompetent who may have wandered into the home, is the obsessive and sole focus on the parents. No one looked at a pedophile who was known to be in the area, known to use the alleyway, known to like to strangle, known to 'like' girls of that age and known to have made a tearful confession of having done something awful at or about that time.
How "lucky" can known pedophiles be? He might still be innocent, but he should have been protesting his innocence down at police headquarters long, long ago.