"Requesting Toth's Theory & Views"
Brief synopsis:
Not an inside job.
Not a kidnapping gone wrong.
Murder right from the start.

Despite the minimal trappings of perversion, the intruder is probably not a pedophile at all but instead prefers the use of adult females, though probably not their company or companionship.

The crime is a brutal and protracted killing. It is not a sex crime. The sexual activity appears "minimal" in comparison to the time and efforts devoted to other aspects and activities of the crime that night.

A pervert would have wanted to do perverse acts on JonBenet, not write even a short note about it. A pervert would have wanted to take her somewhere else for extended activities.

I view this crime as similar in concept to a sniper shooting an abortionist: it is a "mission kill", not a crime of passion or perversion. Just as the sniper probably never met the abortionist, I think the intruder never met JonBenet or ANY of the Ramseys. It is likely he viewed them as he "cased the joint" and may have seen what was clearly a family departing on some excursion in the afternoon, but he never met or interacted with them directly.

I think the intruder had an abiding hatred and an all-consuming intense rage related to certain thematic aspects that I have previously commented on but can not elaborate on in any fashion whatsoever without jeopardizing certain personnel involved in the investigation.

I've never viewed this as some sort of 'inside job' or 'cover-up' in any way. The media campaign and police obsession is revolting. Why would anyone suddenly decide to kill one of their children: such acts would require a long history of a troubled life beset by severe poverty and drug abuse as well as protracted psychiatric problems.

I've been wary of McSanta because he liked being around kids and my suspicions were heightened by the discovery of his pornography habits, but I do not think he was involved in the crime despite his strange fascination with JonBenet.

I've been concerned about Fleet White, but have concluded that he is simply a very strange character who got caught up in this mess. I think that any 'backbone' he might have would be found on the skeletons in his closet. He may be a bit creepy, but that does not make him a murderer.

If a corpse bears dozens of knife wounds, the cops will usually look for a husband or boyfriend since extreme emotion is indicated.

I view the crime as showing great pleasure in the murder and great pride in his achievements in crafting that note, I don't see much in the way of perversion.

Pedophile's dream? Doubt it.

JMO

He calmly fashioned the garotte,,,then he used it.

He enjoyed it. He didn't panic. He never panics.

As to videos/novels, its been thought by some that a video store clerk might have the time, but the note appears to be someone older. I don't think the notewriter was a video store clerk, more likely a student without much of a social life. Hence no one suspects him because no one missed him at Christmas time. Lifelong loner.

Sequence of events: Sure:
He got angry, then he got even.

makes him "creepy"? I haven't read all there is regarding him but then I wouldn't have, him being a friend of the Ramsey faimly and all.

He stands out as exceptional. That is always of interest in a homicide case: who stands out as 'out of the norm' in his habits or actions on that day? He is the only one of the Ramsey friends/acquaintances who is clearly not supporting the Ramseys (although his statements all seem to relate to post-Christmas activities).

He is a man who lives off a family allowance, but the family business is in Orange County, California and it is therefore unlikely that he takes much of an active role in it. This does not necessarily mean he 'has a trust fund for a backbone' but it does bespeak a certain 'penumbra of exile'.

His statements of 'Boulder is a good place to raise kids but Newport Beach, CA was not' is a statement that is strange, particularly if you work for the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce, but not so strange if you work for the Boulder Chamber of Commerce. In between those two extremes, you must find your own point of balance.

It appears he has a few 'gaps' in his background, but so what?

He apparently vigorously urged the Ramseys to do the CNN interview and then later has denied that he did this.

He was constantly talking to police and media at first which to some is suspicious.

He had the presence of mind to take notes that morning, but not to notice the lock or the corpse when he opened the door.

What in the world first triggered his desire to commit this
crime? What was the catalyst? I wonder, at what age,
a person first harbors the thought of killing another human
being? I wonder if he ever gave any indication to others?
We know so little about the human mind. It is so easy
to hide what is going on in that mind of ours. Psychiatrists
and Psychologists have tried. The success has been minimal.

>but in the end he will pretty much fit the bill.
I'm glad that you think he will, most people view it as a pageant-patronizing pedophile or a pissed-off parent.
>
>I wonder, at what age, a person first harbors the thought
>of killing another human being?
Why, school age ofcourse...don't ever say our education system does not accomplish something!

>We know so little about the human mind.
Life-long law abiding CPA had a brain surgeon's scalpel slip and started stealing cars and driving them to his home, soon taking up all the neighborhood parking places with his stolen cars which he never sold or vandalized in any way.
22 out of 23 writers of fine food and fine wine have a lesion in a particular part of the brain.
Females who share a uterus with a male have more masculine brains and are more likely to be attracted to other women.
Crime is not that different from other behaviors.
And murder is not that different from other crimes. Any cop will always tell you: The first one is the hardest one.

What sort of a guy is he? Intelligent, well educated, highly paid, independent in spirit and actions (if not an entrepreneur, he certainly has some business on the side), generous, more prone to solitary than group interaction.

Nor do I. After he completes his protracted strangulation
he went back upstairs spread the Ransom note across
the steps of the spiral staircase. and walked out the door.

If he commits or has committed another crime, which is
quite likely, we will not be able to connect the two.
He won't be leaving any more ransom notes.

No, he had too much fun toying with the Ramseys with that first note...he enjoys having them forever be under an 'umbrella'.

But I wonder about this "which is likely"...
Do you see The Ramseys as the target or JonBenet as the target or simply a six year old girl as the target?

If 'a six year old girl' was the target, then yes, I would expect other crimes, but if the target was The Ramseys, I would not expect any subsequent crimes at all, certainly not any child murders.

Another example of a "target of opportunity" was John
Kennedy. He came right to the assassin. Oswald didn't
even have to leave his workplace. Just aim and shoot.

The home is not really unique, the layout is insignificant.

Anyone writing such a lengthy note and obtaining business publication reprints did not just do some sort of random act; it was directed at a particular target for sure.

You lost me on that statement, please explain?

One might acuse me of being excessively terse in such a post as to reduce this crime that has spawned so many books, movies, TV shows and newspaper columns, but despite the succinctness of the 'he got angry, then he got even' theory and its almost universal applicability to any crime, I see little use in adding to it.

Doesn't the excessive length of the note and the excessive brutality of the murder indicate anger? We all know that cord was more deeply imbedded in her neck than was necessary to do the job. We all know the blow to the head was a massive one, far more massive than would have been needed to get the job done. Doesn't the entry into a home to do this crime indicate the intensity of his desires?

If she had been 'utilized' more and then simply 'dispensed with' without any complex and time-consuming garotte, I could view this as a sex crime, but I have a hard time looking at the time consuming note writing and the time consuming garotte contriving and then looking at the merely perfunctory sexual activity.

>Given the intensity and anger ... wouldn't
>far, far more have been done
>to her sexually if sex were
>the motive for this crime?
>If she had been 'utilized' more and
>then simply 'dispensed with' without any
>complex and time-consuming garotte, I could
>view this as a sex crime,
>but I have a hard time
>looking at the time consuming note
>writing and the time consuming garotte
>contriving and then looking at the
>merely perfunctory sexual activity.

so where what would this anger involve??? An ex-employee or someone who KNEW they were qualified and applied at AG yet didn't get the job???

Since I routinely apply for jobs that I am qualified for yet hear nothing back from the whoever, I can see someone getting pissed at that fact. However, if the person were a very egotistical 'high and mighty' self-image, wouldn't they resent it all the more? I've known people like that and wondered if they hadn't ever committed SOME crime SOMEWHERE because of where they were working at NOW (when I did work where they did that is). They had a tiny non-descript job but by their attitude you'd have thought their dad was the king of some country. That kind of attitude. If someone had applied at AG and was THAT kind, I can imagine the 'being pissed' being replaced by a revenge notion, siince again, I've known people like that.

The JBR murder bothered me alot, one reason I think because Boulder isnt that far from here, Albuq, and it seems that when someone flees, they come HERE. I've always seemed to attract the 'odd ones' so I don't like to go out much and being in HERE only made that worse. Course you know I was born paronoid (or so I say - isnt really true but I joke it like that - that developed over a period of time so it's really a wariness caused by experience).

In my opinion, if someone is looking for a crook in AZ, CO, or TX, they need only come here and that crook IS probably here someplace. Probably working at the job I was at before. We had one person there arrested by the FBI for explosivies violations (he made bombs) and we had people who bought and sold pot, bought under the table and everything else. It was the worst place I've ever worked at but I kind of got along with most of them but was glad to get out in one piece.

And I've seen some there who would FIT the profile you described, or so I beleive. They can lie thru their teeth and seem totally sincere if I hadn't JUST seen them 'token'. But that's another story.

So I think it was someone who was one of THOSE kind, (they probably have those kind in CO too but I like to think it's just here; if it's just here than I can go someplace else and NEVER see it again anymore than I saw it in Illinios). Someone who thought themself as a god (I've worked under people like that and I'm NOT exagerating - when the 'fit' was on them, they acted like they thot they were a god), and went and did whatever and went off and forgot about it. And they WOULD kill again, and again and again, and if we only knew it, perhaps that person is in OUR town right now someplace and THAT's what's happening to some people here.

Well, that's my kind of opinion about it. Course the perp may STILL be in Co. I DO like your theory on one account tho - I don't have to suspecision an old friend any more.

It's much more straightforward to accept this, as a working hypothesis, to be a sexually related homicide for which an attempted coverup of an aborted kidnapping was made, the same as is often seen with sexual homicides. That is sexual homicides are often disguised as robberies, etc. This approach is much more likely to lead to the true perpetrator.

Don has repeatedly pointed to minimal signs of sexual activity; this is incorrect. The signs of sexual activity include the ligature strangulation, the bondage, the slight vaginal penetration, etc. This are indeed not common signs of sexual activity, but there is, in fact, a LOT of evidence that this is a sexual homicide. It's a textbook case.

yes, I agree that I am focusing on the actual sexual activities rather than such 'sexual substitutes' as strangulation, humiliation, etc.

As to 'why cover-up, rather than proudly reveal' if it is a quasi-political motivation: consider how some Jaguar drivers remove their front license plates because it detracts from the beauty of the vehicle. If someone writes a letter of protest to the newspapers about the practice and then kills JonBenet because John Ramsey's jaguar didn't have a front license plate, any 'announcement' about the crime having been committed by the SBTC (Stop Boulder Tag Concealment) would be a little too identifying. Whenever the 'announced reason' also reveals the identity because the 'group' is too small, there has to be a cover up of the true nature of the crime.

the "TC" part of SBTC stands for "Top Cat" since the refrence to 'cats' was made in the letter.
I have no idea what the "SB" would stand for.

I have also read that it seemed as if certain parts of the letter were written at different times. I wonder why? Or did just certain parts of it 'set him off' so the writing LOOKED as if it had been written at different times???

That's what I'd think right there, and IF so then THAT should tell us what part of the letter mean the MOST to him.

I read the letter yet I do NOT see that which was described. I am not a handwriting anylist either so how WOULD I know? If anyone here knows which parts seem to change in style and grow 'more intense' I suppose one could also know which parts mean 'something' to the perp. He no doubt put some of his OWN self into the letter even tho we now believe that he wrote it almost entirly from movie quotes. The parts that aren't movie quotes then, WOULD be the perp. Sort that out and where the intensity increases, and you have a better look at him.