Unfortunately, their story has changed more than once and I don't know what to think of the story anymore. I to think their first report was the most honest and the later stories were, IMO, an atempt to get removed from the case as witnesses. This case is not a comfortable thing to be associated with.

I have been in the house when experiments were done - - I KNOW this.

Thomas said a scream could be heard. I won't say there is NOSOUND when there is a racket in the basement, but I would swear that it wouldn't wake anyone up, not even the lightest sleeper. Only someone paying close attention, LISTENING FOR sounds, would even NOTICE the sounds from the third floor bedroom.

But the Ramsey bedroom - with no windows in the front and thick sealed windows on the side - - the room is really insulated from all sound, inside and out.

John and Patsy's bedroom was on the third floor and Burke's bedroom was on the second floor. I think we should also keep in mind that Burke did not report hearing a scream.

The scream/clang may help pinpoint the time a bit more, though that doesn't help much.

The megaphone illustration on the show may help some non-believers.

But I don't think the scream caused any subsequent flight.

When people change their stories, you may never know the real truth. In New Age Boulder, Melody Stanton could have woken up her husband if she felt "negative energy".

If the murderer put duct tape over JonBenet's mouth right away, then there might not have been an audible scream.

The fact that Melody Stanton woke her husband is pretty convincing that she did indeed hear something that woke her up with adrenaline. Give him time to completely come awake and hear the scraping or clanging noise and you have about the same time lapse as it would take for an attacker to flee after a scream. Can be compelling evidence.

The only thing Thomas wanted to know was, could it be heard upstairs. It never occurred to him that if Patsy was in the basement the scream would have to be heard by John who was under the influence of a sleping pill.

The scream could have been studied as to it's loudness and length. Two or three seconds would have been like an eternity! How do you shut her up?
The original statement by Ms. Stanton was that it was a "Horrifying" scream, but just one! Sounds like someone, "Shut her up."
That had to be caused by one of two things: the stun-gun, or, the blow to the head.
If they had used the stun-gun to silence her, then why the blow to the head? Stunning someone is a far cry from murder, unless, she recognised someone. If that was the case, then they would have a terrible decision to make, wouldn't they?
(The murder and subsequent cover-up).
Now, they not only had to murder her, they would have to cover it up. Could that be why there seemed to be so much staging of the murder scene?
Penetrating her then covering it up, sounds a lot like staging to me. The piece of tape wasn't applied until AFTER she died! That's staging. The fact that the rope and noose was made at the scene and her nightgown being brought down but not used, tells me the crime changed. (The scream)?
As it is, this clue, like so many others, was totally biased and poorly investigated.

When a detective talked to her 2 days later, she said she heard a child's scream between midnight and 2 a.m. During that interview, she made a comment about "negative energy" but when the detective asked her for more detail, she ignored him. The detective did not include "negative energy" in his report. A year later, the detective told some other policemen on the case about the "negative energy" remark, and he was told to amend his report to include it.

When reporter Shapiro talked to Melody Stanton months after the murder, Melody told him she heard a child's scream coming from the Ramsey house because she slept with her window open. She said she awakened her husband Luther, but the scream had ended & he did not hear it. According to Melody, later that same night Luther heard a noise that sounded like a chain clinking on a flag pole.

4 years later (in 2001), Frank Coffman talked to Melody Stanton and she said she heard a scream but thought it was on December 23 not December 25.
Frank reported this conversation on internet discussion forums and in email to various posters.

It has never been stated that Luther Stanton was personally interviewed by either police, Shapiro, or Coffman.

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Did anyone ever imagine what the time lag was?
There would've had to have been some time between the scream and when the perp left, and was the time lag between when his wife woke him up and the 'clanking sound' enough time for that?

>When a detective talked to her 2
>days later, she said she heard
>a child's scream between midnight and
>2 a.m. During that interview, she
>made a comment about "negative energy"
>but when the detective asked her
>for more detail, she ignored him.

Someone who is awakened by what they think is a scream may wonder later if indeed it was part of a dream, (or 'negative energy'). I have been awakened by such and I heard it twice before I got out of bed and stood listening by the wall. (My mother educated me to not look out the drapes least I cause someones target direction to change towards us). When it was repeated a third time, I recoginized it as the sound of a wailing cat. Had I only heard it once, I might have thought I'd just drempt it, in fact, that's why I didn't get out of bed when it first woke me up; I didn't know if it was real or not.

>According to Melody, later that same
>night Luther heard a noise that
>sounded like a chain clinking on
>a flag pole.

I first read someplace that he heard a sound like "paint cans being moved over concrete". Which is it? The two sounds aren't simular.