>Nothing indicates SickPuppy knew where the Ramseys were.
>He just knew they weren't home - - easy to tell as the house
>had LOTS of windows - - lots.

How did he know that he would have ample time to write a 3 page note and supposedly walk around and familiarize himself with the house?Possibly even going through paperwork? The Ramseys got home around 9:30pm. Assuming the murderer spent a minimum of 2 hours in the house, that means he entered some time between when the Ramseys left at 5:00pm and 7:30pm. That seems to me like a strange time to break into a house if you werent sure the people were gone. Also theres no way it was completely dark outside at those times. Are you assuming the intruder would have looked in the windows to realize they werent home? Doesnt that seem risky to do, especially in the daytime? Also, do you think he checked the house and realized nobody was home, then went and got his 'tools' or were they already on his person?

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>> What if they were leaving to get on a plane that night?
>
>SickPuppy would have left the house without murdering
>anyone. Maybe the Ramseys would never know he had been there
>- - or maybe he would have stolen something - - who knows.
>In Charlevoix, an intruder used the Ramsey house as a hotel
>- - no one knows who did that, but the maids saw his stuff
>in the house and thought it had to be someone the Ramseys
>invited to use the house. Strange.

Where did you hear this? Id be interested in details.

>> For whatever reason, the writer didnt want to bring Patsys name into it. (the ransom note)
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>I think the killer wanted to be "macho" instead of being
>a coward who would take a defenseless child, his fantasy
>while he wrote the note was to have power over a man.

Possible. But my question to you is - what do you make of the $118,000 ransom? Do you think they already knew it was Johns' bonus? A reference to Psalm 118? One million pesos? A complete coincidence?