This is my commentary on his theory from his book.

CHAPTER 30
PART 1 - THOMAS' THEORY

Thomas said he felt Patsy was under stress:
a. approaching 40
b. tired from the busy holiday season
c. exhausted after Christmas day
d. frazzled because JonBenét argued with her over the shirt she wore to the Whites'

Thomas ignored the testimony of John, Patsy and Burke (that JBR was carried sleeping to her bed) and instead insists Patsy fed pineapple to JBR when they got home that night.

Thomas wrote that John read to JBR, a claim John disputes - he said he put Burke to bed and went to his own bed to read to himself.

John and Patsy say she went to bed before John - but Thomas reversed that in his theory - he has Patsy staying up to prepare for a trip to Michigan - and notes that she was not anxious to go on that particular trip. It is true that she had at first hesitated saying it was such a short trip in such a busy time, but John clearly said later that she had warmed to the idea and wasn't upset or hateful about it.

Thomas claimed that JonBenét wet the bed and pointed to this as evidence
- the plastic sheets on the bed (present, OK)
- the urine stains (there were urine stains on her long johns but NOT on the sheets - Thomas is being deceitful, hoping to make the
reader believe there is proof she wet the bed that night - there is NO proof of that. The pattern of the stains in the long johns
indicates her legs were dangling down, not that she was lying down, the urine would pool. She wet herself, she did NOT wet the bed.)
- there was a package of pull-ups in the hall cabinet (yep, sure was. They were bought for the upcoming cruise.)
- "the balled-up turtleneck found in the bathroom (again misleading - she didn't wear red to the Whites and the shirt was not urine stained so what does that have to do with the supposition that JBR wet the bed that night?)

Citing that parents sometimes fly into a rage over toileting issues, Thomas decided this was the motive - and the assault was in
rage, not premeditated. He says the sexual assault, the vaginal injury, was the result of "violent wiping". And he said he believes
JBR was slammed against something in her bathroom - the head wound knocked her unconscious and Patsy believed she was
dead.

(BUT THE EVIDENCE DOESN'T SUPPORT THIS -
not only is there evidence that the Ramseys didn't even spank their kids, the evidence in the autopsy disputes it. There was no bruising indicating she was "violently wiped" and sexually assaulted in the bathroom - no blood in there. More important, THE MINIMAL BLEEDING IN THE SKULL INDICATES THE
FLOW OF BLOOD WAS RESTRICTED IF NOT CUT OFF WHEN SHE WAS STRUCK. - So ST's theory of the order of the injuries is wrong.

Thomas said up until this point, Patsy was innocent of any crime - it was an accident - and he said, "She could have called for help but chose not to."

He believes Patsy carried JBR to the little room in the basement and went about staging a kidnapping.

First, Patsy isn't that big or strong and it would have been difficult for her to do that.

If she carried her wet body to the basement, wouldn't she have gotten urine on her own clothes? Would she really not change out of them before calling 911?

If staging a kidnapping, why take her to the garage and not to the car and dropped off somewhere? Staging a kidnapping and leaving the body made NO SENSE.

At this point Thomas has Patsy writing a handwritten ransom note - (using the pad and pen that could have been available to ANYONE in that house, parent OR intruder) He says she tore out other pages, doesn't explain why or where they went to - (I think it makes more sense to say that the pad had missing pages from - - earlier times. Hardly a rare thing - to have a pad with missing pages. But ST seems to need to explain how everything is related to the crime she did.)

He doesn't seem to think she would worry about leaving her handwriting on the note, that she would be too upset to compose such a "sensible" note, and apparently the lack of her prints or tears on it just requires no explanation.

Thomas feels Patsy decided she couldn't take the body out of the house and would leave it in the basement - (as if that made any sense when "staging" a kidnapping).

He then theorizes that Patsy went back to the basement, realized JonBenét was not dead, and made the garrote to finish her off.
"This accident, in my opinion, had just become a murder."
BUT the evidence - the autopsy, the neck wounds - they prove the garrote was on first. LONG before ST has it put on. Lou Smit and Mike Dobersen made it clear that the garrote couldn't leave those marks if put on her 2 minutes after death, never mind after that. The blood had to be pumping.

On TV, Thomas agreed it was hard to picture Patsy doing that - making a garrote and killing her baby, but he stuck by his theory.

Then, he said, she tied her hands - but he doesn't account for the fact that the cord matched nothing in the house, or the odd way
her hands were bound - they were not just tied together, but the knots and loops were similar to those found on bandage sites - and
there was NO evidence the Ramseys were into that.

Thomas said that JonBenét was carefully wrapped in the blanket, an act of love, according to him. But she was lying on the moldy cement floor, not carefully wrapped, her feet were sticking out - and her arms were flung over her head, she
was NOT in a "peaceful pose" as the FBI says parents tend to leave their children if they murder them. John Douglas said that was NOT how a parent would leave her.

Thomas had Patsy up all night - returning the tablet and pen, finding tape and putting some on JBR's mouth - but he doesn't explain
that the tape, like the cord, matches NOTHING found in the house, used previously, and couldn't be linked to the Ramseys. He
DOES theorize that she may have gone out in the night and dropped the left over tape and such in a garbage pail or sewer, though
nothing was found in later searches.

Thomas said that Patsy had never been to bed - never gotten out of the clothes, had not put them back on... that she spent the
night staging the crime and then screamed for John to come see the note....

But John has made statements that Patsy was in bed before him and was still there when he got up. So for Thomas' theory to be
true, John has to be lying.

Thomas felt that John was innocent to start but soon realized that Patsy had killed JonBenét and decided to cover for her.

On TV, John scoffed at that, said that the love for a spouse is "conditional". "If you kill my child, I don't like you anymore."