It’s strange that (as I wrote somewhere else) the ransom note draws in part from dialogue in Speed and Dirty Harry. Not movies I’d think the Ramseys would have memorized passages from.

My understanding is it adds a sexuality to the killing. Would Patsy know that or her husband?

If Patsy had used just 1/10th the imagination that went into that “ransom” letter, she could have come up with a perfectly good lie to tell the ER doctors.

As a former 10-year-old boy, I can tell you that smashing a skull on national television would have been the highlight of my childhood. Boys that age are animals.

You’re right about the BPD’s ineptness--Linda Arndt especially. Letting John Ramsey go missing for an hour and a half, telling him to go off unescorted to search the house, moving JB’s body a second time. What an idiot.

I did read his book. And you’re right of course, parents can become monsters. I guess it’s just the look of her neck with that cord cinched around it--to me, it’s almost too horrifying to look at. And then the complicated process of fashioning a garotte... The whole thing made me think “Couldn’t they have called 911…

He’s creepy, you’re right, but for me, he’s always been creepy in his stoic inexpressiveness (sort of like Reagan). But that nakedly narcissistic admission--“The real story here is MY suffering”--that was a whole new level of monstrousness.

Yeah, JCO rarely writes admirable women characters. They’re always monsters or nervous wrecks.

I can buy the “panicked and covered it up” scenario, until I see the pictures of JonBenet’s neck with the ligature digging into it. I cannot see John or Patsy doing that much violence to their daughter, even if they thought she was already gone. Maybe I’m being naive.

...who told Dr. Phil that the real injustice was him being falsely accused and not his daughter dying

I loved it too. The protagonist was so much more interesting than any real Ramsey. My only objection: the author didn’t bother to learn anything about skating.

He and Kelly’s Mr. Clean-resembling husband—they both give off “I’d rather be on grindr” vibes.

😍❤️

You should have taken me.

I remember listening to him on “Loveline”; when any young woman caller admitted to having any kind of sex life at all, Drew would immediately ask “You were molested, weren’t you?”

I am sitting in my office, literally trying to say it with a “hard” S.

My god. Those were like something from an abnormal psychology textbook.

Much like the way his face shows time both advancing and retreating at the same time.

God I hope so. (to your last sentence)

I agree, but the fracture in JonBenet’s skull is savage. If you don’t mind these kinds of photos, Google-Image “JonBenet skull” and you’ll see: the fracture runs the length of her skull, and there’s a 1.75-inch x 0.5-inch oval-shaped piece of bone at the top that appears to be missing—it’s a depression fracture.…