The play is not available as far as I know. It would be up to Janet McReynolds to share or publish it - I can not. But I can publish a couple pages for discussion. I have done that now and will share no more.

I think when people see bits of the play they can see why the police were interested in following up a bit on the McReynolds.

The play is not a blueprint for the Ramsey murder, but it is interesting when you consider the author was with JonBenét just days before her death and she and her husband WERE looked at during the early days.

Their daughter was abducted exactly 22 years before JonBenét's body was found. She was not killed but... the man who did that was never identified or prosecuted. I wonder what that experience did to all the kids in that family.

I knowsome will flame me for that but let's remember how Stephen Staynor was abducted, retuned home and HIS brother was affected - - he ended up a serial killer. (Or would he be a spree killer? I am not sure.)

The whole play was just strange. And the theory put forward by the killer is that the victim really orchestrated the whole thing - set it all up and was the one responsible in the end.

About the McReynold's daughter's abduction on the same day 22 years earlier?

That Mrs. McReynolds had been a movie critic?

about the play she wrote?

That Santa McReynold's was at the Ramsey house on the 23rd?

Remember...Bill McReynolds was a very well-known Santa Claus on Pearl Street--in fact a newspaper article appeared in the paper about him dropping in on someone shortly before the murder of JBR. The article pointed out he was being filmed for a Charles Kuwalt (sp?) special.

Jung says there are no coincidences.

Santa was all about good cheer and good will---and to have this crime taken place on Christmas Day, of all days of the year, totally violates all he stands for.

Murder at Christmas is a common theme---written about by many mystery writers---some quite well known.

Article that appeared in the paper on 12/23/96, below:

Daily Camera (Boulder, CO)
"REAL SANTA' DROPS IN ON DESERVING DECORATORS
December 23, 1996
Section: MAIN
Edition: FIRST
Page: 1A
Jason Gewirtz Camera Staff Writer
Caption: PHOTO:
By Crissy Pascual Daily Camera
DROPPING BY: Penny Happs, center, can't hide her joy at being paid a random visit by Bill McReynolds as Santa Claus, right. McReynolds sat with Happs' 18-year-old son, Jake.

Five minutes after he walked into her house Sunday night, Penny Happs had stopped screaming - but her hands were still shaking. Happs had always wanted to meet the real Santa Claus, who dropped by her Cana Court house unannounced Sunday night after admiring the festive light display outside.

"I can't believe this is happening," Happs said, a grin as big as the long stocking hanging from her staircase. "Imagine my surprise when I hear a knock on the door and here's the real Santa."
Bill McReynolds, who as Santa Claus has warmed the hearts of thousands of people on the Downtown Mall the past three years, took some time Sunday to make random visits to several houses with attractive holiday displays. McReynolds, who has considerably scaled down his Santa schedule since major surgery in August, was followed this weekend by the watchful eyes of a camera crew that will feature Santa Claus on a nationwide broadcast next year.

McReynolds will be profiled on a new television series called "An American Moment with Charles Kuralt," which will be hosted by the veteran CBS reporter who has traveled the nation searching for interesting people. McReynolds' segment, part of an hour-long special, will air sometime around Christmas 1997. The program won't be the first national television exposure for McReynolds, who several years ago began growing his authentic white beard. Two years ago, he was featured on a CBS "Eye on America" segment proclaiming him the real Santa Claus.

The 66-year-old retired University of Colorado professor decided to scale down his Santa schedule this year - including his Downtown Mall duty - after having surgery to replace the aortic valve of his heart. The surgery left him 60 pounds lighter, but his spirit is perfectly intact.

And for those who see him, he's still the real deal.

The television film crew that followed McReynolds around Saturday and Sunday caught him preparing to be Santa in his Rollinsville cabin, collecting donations at his church, performing at a private party and going door to door surprising people whose light displays caught his attention.

"The man has a gift," said Derek Reich, a free-lance photographer from Boulder who filmed McReynolds. "Just to see the response - kids and adults alike, they seem to be truly moved by his spirit."

For McReynolds, visiting individual homes days before Christmas is a relatively new event. Last year he walked in on a party in Lafayette and after being offered cookies, milk and warm hospitality, he thought he'd try it again.

"This is the activity I've always wanted to do," he said, looking for houses from behind the wheel of his white Honda Civic, which he drove to give his sleigh the night off.

The first stop on Santa's tour was a house on Bass Circle basking in the glow of luminescent gingerbread figures, a snowman, candles, candy canes, a manger scene - even a replica of Santa himself, reindeer included.

Four-year-old Jessica Garcia smiled widely and offered a "Hi Santa!" when the man entered the room. She clutched a plush white teddy bear while reciting a five-minute list of things she wanted for Christmas.

At Santa's next stop, Happs had difficulty controlling her emotions, dumbfounded by why Santa Claus had picked her house to visit.

"He's perfect - he's it," she said, turning to look at everyone in the room. "Look at him. Look at his eyes - they twinkle."

Santa sang Jingle Bells with Happs and her son, politely declined a slice of pizza and went on his merry way. But not without making a lasting impression.

"As far as I'm concerned, he's Santa Claus," said Jake Happs, 18. "Not so much the twinkling eyes and the beard. He knows what Santa Claus is all about. Santa's really about giving love and peace to everybody."

JOHN RAMSEY: .... We have some letters from him. We have a tape from him .... ....... it was a tribute to JonBenet or something like that. And apparently it starts out nice and then it gets up into this... you left Santa Claus and, you know, went to all those fancy things and you came back to Santa Claus. ....... very weird. He wrote me a letter saying that he carved JonBenet's name in a harp, it had the name of three other little girls that died early.

If Santa was looked at closely, it was because of his own actions.

Personally I find this very interesting.

I have yet to see the one that fits the bill - -

Nancy can't place her "friend" in Colorado and handwriting experts have apparently NOT made a match there.

I thought Craig Silverman looked like a real idiot when he suggested Patsy killed JonBenét because her name rhymed with Shari Faye, a victim in a John Douglas book that was NOT found in the Ramsey house.

Unpublished books that have sexual assaults or a garrote just aren't close enough - - sorry.

But that doesn't mean the killer didn't write anything. I think we may find the killer had a journal, wrote letters....

I am struck by how creepy and sick it is. Anyone who could write this is (in my opinion) just not right. It gave the creeps!
It has been said that the McReynolds have been cleared, but are the police 100% sure? There are just too many coincidents and like the other poster said--there are no coinidences.
Also, I never heard that part where John was talking about Santas actions after JonBenet's death.
I am now leaning towards Janet killing JonBenet for some twisted reason to get back at Bill. Does anyone know what the police did to look into this angle?

But there was a lot of interesting stuff that linked them to the Ramseys - - they knew the family, Bill had a very intense interest in JonBenét (witness the letter saying he would bring HER glitter into surgery) - - the 26th was the anniversary of their own daughter's abduction....

I am not accusing anyone but I hope the cops checked the sons of the McReynolds - especially the one with a criminal record. I believe he robbed a gas station, got all of $118. Was HE somehow jealous of children who got the attention of his parents?

I just think that is a lead that needs to be followed.

So if anyone was trying, even half heartedly, to set up McSanta et. ux., then it would not only be someone who knew of McSanta and the items likely to link him to the crime but also knew something of his normal routine and knew he would not then be at an orphanage playing Santa to 200 alilbi witnesses.

Anyone who attempted to frame the McSantas would have to know of them, know a good deal about them, know a good deal about their normal routines at the holiday times and ofcourse know a good deal about the Ramseys too.

I don't think the McSantas were in fact targets of some frame job or even a half-hearted frame job to deflect attention from the real perpetrator.

I'm fairly certain that the McSantas are a bit strange and perhaps no where near what they seem to be, but that they were not pedophiles or murderers.

I wonder if Bill and Janet got this girl therapy after the ordeal she went through. If not, she may not have worked through the mental trauma and may be suffering from mental illness. I always hear about the sons of Bill and Janet, but never the daughter. The daughter and a male friend (male DNA) could be involved.

To go through what this girl went through and then to have a mother who would write a play about sexual abuse and torture of a young girl would have to have a negative effect on a young woman-child.

Where is this woman and why don't we ever hear or talk about her.

Childhood trauma can lead to Borderline Personality Disorder which can effect a person to different degrees depending on the person. It can be a extremely serious mental affliction.

McReynolds was also being filmed for a documentary shortly before JBR's murder---and it was in the paper before JBR's murder. In fact I thought that was the reason for the party at the Ramseys at the 23rd--he had wanted to be filmed at the Ramseys.

So you had the Access article in the paper, and a McReynolds story....and the two met on the 23rd. Don't know if there's a link---but there are some very strange coincidences.