WHY did the woman not come into work, as she was scheduled to, and instead called Patsy to borrow money?

Wouldn't you assume someone who needed money would take all the overtime/extra work (holiday or not) they could get?

LHP was aware of the routine of this family and their intended trip out of town.

Wasn't the ransom note found in close proximity to where the requested check would have been left?

Apparently she was a part time housekeeper. It seems she was not a particularly good one but it also seems she was not a particularly bad one.

Money problems?
Half of Boulder has money problems.

Loan? Check was for fairly small amount. A far greater amount could have been obtained from the tabloids if LHP had originally sold her story so I doubt there was much of a 'money angle'.

The issue I am speaking of is this, if the woman was so broke and needed money at that time-, why then wouldn't she have gone to work as was scheduled?

Instead, she called in missing, a day of work, and asked to borrow money.

IF I needed money, I certainly wouldn't call off work regardless.

So you think it might well have been an elaborate ruse: "No officer, I would be the last person to kill her daughter, Patsy was about to give me a check for a small loan that I really need".

Perhaps, but it doesn't seem to sensible. Alot of work and planning went into the crime, and what on earth would the housekeeper want to invest all that time and energy for? She didn't go around killing her other customers.

I doubt that she killed JonBenet, but someone close to her could have.

Who knows if a housekeeper such as LHP had complained of wealth differentials in their standard of living?

I somehow doubt LHP or any of her friends had anything to do with this.

Uneducated or not, I don't think LHP is THAT stupid to think no one would ask her about the daughter of her employer being gone. I don't think she would have left any note.

BUT - - we know that LHP and her husband and her daughter and son-in-law had done work in that house - - KNEW the house - had access to the amount of the bonus ($118,000) if they chose to snoop at all. If they were with friends, I wonder if THEY would have talked about the "fat cats with the little pageant princess" who lived in Boulder. Why, here they were scrounging to pay for rent money and JOHN (the fat cat) got a BONUS of - - you won't believe it!

Maybe THAT person got them to talk about the house - the many rooms, the work they did there - - like the broken window Mervin was ASKED to fix in the basement.

Could that be our killer?

I think it is a reasonable possibility and the housekeeper and her family shoulf have been asked about that - - but it seems that didn't happen.

I would LOVE to have a copy of the early interviews of the housekeeper and others.