Focus against Mr. Ramsey.

The letter was addressed to Mr. Ramsey, therefore I'd think that it had to do with Mr. Ramsey. Why address the letter as "Mr" unless you thought of him as being the big cheese? In order for him to think of John as a big cheese, (or as he put it, "fat cat"), he'd have to have known something about him. To me, this suggests someone who had either worked for AG or had applied there and expected to be hired.

I would think that this person had an alter ego of being someone with great power yet felt powerless in the shadow of the head of a company, therefore someone who did not have power, probably never had any power, and so was just a wannabe. In other words, someone who was a very small fry someplace, either inside or outside of AG.

Feeling powerless against a company head, but wanting to get back at John somehow, he probably broke into his house with the idea of taking some things, and then cooked up a different plan, either then, or later. Unless it has been proven otherwise, perhaps he was the first thief who broke into John's house. For all we know, he could have at that time 'fixed' some things so he could easily get back in at a later time, even if he didn't have to use them, if he thought about doing something at a later time and he was the first person who broke in there, then I'd think he probably did fix up some ways to get back in at a later date. I am not sure if such things would be detectable at a later date or not.

Pad of paper.

In this theory, it being a pre-planned crime, he copied a pre-written note onto the paper pad using the handwriting from the note, probably thinking that handwriting WAS John's. I think had there been two pads, one marked Patsy and one marked John, he would've tried to copy the style from the one marked "John" instead, however, in this case it was no doubt Patsy's handwriting someplace on the pad to begin with and so he copied that.
I can see no reason why he would've wanted to copy Patsy's handwriting if he indeed even knew she exsisted. One would think that surly he would've known that someone else lived there, but who knows?

There was an employee at AG fired for treating someone negativly there. I remember that much; that that person was supposedly checked out and had an alibi, but as you know, the alibi is only as good as the word of the other person giving the alibi, so who was that other person? Someone like a wife who relied on him to bring home the bacon??? Or someone else?

Whoever we are looking for, I'd say that the person was young like and nieve in ways (gee, include us all, okay?) and had a black-and-white idea of justice such as is illustrated in comic books that supposedly college age people still read (not that that's bad but they present that black-and-white idea), so all things I see about this perp is someone who was either close to the age of 20 or in college. If he applied to work at AG and didn't get the job, then he was most likely in programming. I am not sure what AG did except it was a software company; that's all I know. Applied Graphics sounds more like commercial art but I can't see an art type person doing anything like that. Programmers however like to program because when doing that, THEY have control so I'd say if it was someone going to college, it was most likely someone in programming.

Was this person well to do?

Don thought it was someone who'd lived rather well all his life rather than someone making little wages. I would imagine that Don thought that from the fact that the perp asked for money but left the body in the house, when the perp could've in fact asked for money, tried to collect it, and STILL left a body.

If the whole scheme was to hurt John, then it makes sense. The perp wasn't bold enough to do anything directly to John so he set up a plan to attack one of his children and point the blame at John. For all we know, this person had called in lies to the BPD about John, and that's why they seemed to focus on the parents.

However, as I said before in this theory, if he thought that the notepad that he tried to copy the style of contained John's handwriting, and it in fact containd Patsy's handwriting, then that is the reason that nobody focused directly on John. I can see no reason for anyone focusing on Patsy from all of the good things I've heard she did in the community. John was the head of a company and there are always those who want raises, permotions, those who go out under unfavorable circumstances and those who believe they should be hired and aren't, so the head of a company might be a target to someone who is unbalanced.

So rather than looking for a wild-looking person, I think we'd be looking for someone who was more 'mousy' looking (at that time); someone who is more subdued part of the time and then 'comes out of themself' once in awhile. Course we all might do THAT sometimes so I guess I didn't give a very good description. I see this person as being rather 'cold' altho to the world, they might look 'even' but I say 'cold' as in they (the only word I can think for it is 'exsist'). If given a psychological test for humanity, the person would test out more like a computer than a person with feelings. Yet the feelings are there, just channeled into his black-and-white view of the world and how they think things should be. This is a dangerous person and I believe that he IS probably still alive, AND someone who CAN be discovered.

Using this sort of a description I've given the perp (which is a theory in itself), let me see how he would react to certain kinds of things.

If there was a town meeting about the crime in the early days, what would he do?
I doubt he would've gone simply because he did his black-and-white justice and there was no more to be done with it, so I doubt that he would've gone to it. News reports? Probably only read them if he came across them; doubt he would've sought them out. Crime forum like this one? Doubt he'd bother; old business; the case is closed in his mind; he did what he'd set out to do; he hurt Mr. Ramsey so he's done with that and going on to greater things.

You can see that I am taking part of what Don said to heart though, since Don thought that the perp was 'just doing a mission' and so that's where I'm drawing part of my 'profile' from, not that I consider myself to be anything like that but one can but try.

Age - If the perp was the age I think he was (seems to me to be someone around the age of 25 for some reason) that'd make him around 30 now. Wherever he is now, he most likely works in programming. I can't see this perp NOT working in programming or some kind of a 'control' job. Could be a supervisor someplace but I doubt it. I think this perp needs to feel in control of great things and as a programmer, they are. Might always do well for their company but if any workers there dissapeared in strange ways, I'd wonder HOW well he was doing. In this theory, I think of this perp as being someone of intellect who may still think in black-and-white and if so, is a danger to any who 'cross' him.

RHGC (if I got those initials right) thought that the perp in this case, was Pachely and for all I know, he could be right. But whoever this perp is, he had to have known about John, somehow, and to me that means in contact through his company.

I doubt that anyone has the personell files from AG for way back then, but if they do, this would be someone who could've applied there or worked there, from a time before the first break-in up until JBR's murder. The first break-in I heard about may have had nothing to do with this or it may have been the perp's first entry into the house.

I doubt that the crime had anything to do with JBR being a little girl. I think had the awards in the house been for Burke rather than JBR, that the perp might've gone for him instead. I think the perp got the original idea from being in the house before so I think he was the person who broke in the first time. I think he may have fixed a few things to get back in easier later. I think he may have even lived close by so he'd know when they left. He may have been someone who asked about them from time to time, in a seemingly blasie way. I think you'd know this person by their normal hands-on approach to things and then by their nanchalont way of asking about someone as if it didn't matter if you answered or not. Since I didn't live in that area, only someone who lived there during that time would know that.

The perp wrote alot in the note. Lots of trash. Why? I thought it was to keep the parents busy if they came down those stairs looking for her; would give him time enough to get away. Perhaps that was the original reason, BUT, a long note wouldn't be needed in that case now that I think about it more. Because of the length of the note, some have said that the perp beleived that nobody could identify his handwriting. Did the perp really think that, or did he care??? But coming back to the original thought, why did he write such a long note?

The length of the note shows us his character. I've heard there are a lot of movie lines included in it, and that may have been intentional, or unintentional since I know people would can answer a question with a movie line, but that's a edu way of doing things; college way apparently.

Someone wrote regarding the note, that the perp was sadistic. What he wrote shows someone building a scene in the readers mind of things taking place, and so it was all written in the note rather than left to the imagination such as would be done were it intended to be a real kidnapping.

It seems as if the perp was running through it all in his own mind, probably had that pre-written, and when back at the house, he transferred that to the pad, by then operating in a semi dead-to-the-world 'conducting a mission' way. This does not mean the perp was on drugs. He could've been but not necessarrly so. I think for this perp, the crime was his drug; was his 'high' and he didn't need any other.

I don't live there; I've never even been there. Just met someone the other day who has a relative there but that's it. I wouldn't know if anything I've written here is worth anything or not, but I've got to try my hand at profiling anyway. For all I know, I've included half the population of the USA but I DO hope not. I do hope that most people are NOT like that. I do hope that the percentage of those like this would be miniscule and that something I've said might help someone someplace put the finger on this perp.

I know, someone has said that they thouht the perp was around 40. I don't know why; possiably because of the movies of which the lines that were included in the note but if you have someone who watches late night TV and if those are the kinds of movies on late night TV then we have someone who might very well live that kind of scene, behind the scenes so to speak.

Now for a good question. If this person was to write a letter regarding something, what would IT come off as??? Would you see their personality through that letter, or is that cold side of them something that they have locked away in some dark cubbyhole, or is THAT even POSSIABLE???

I think that if this perp is like I think they are, that they would score in a psychological test as one who is cold and unfeeling; unartistic; very cut-and-dried; very logical, and very black-and-white. Like a military wannabe, perhaps someone who had been in the military and had been discharged as not military material. Someone who wanted to be 'hard' like his heros. Someone who persued that venue to the point of becoming cold and hard himself. Would probably not hang out with others, or if he did, would probably not be very friendly. There would always be some kind of a 'strained' feeling there as if he didn't really want to be there; would rather be off doing something with non-people that he could control.

That's what it all seems like to me anyway.