Subtopic 1- Motive

My first subtopic had to do with motive. There is enough cercumstancial evidence that concludes that one or both of her paretns were the killers of Jonbenet. For one, it is a known fact that Patsy and Jonbenet had an argument the night before her death. Though it is not exactly known what this fight was about (some specualte it was about her constant bed wetting and others say it was over her Christmas Day outfit) we do know there was a fight. One theory is that in this fight Patsy had just snapped from being overwhelemed with the holiday season, her upcoming birthday and other means of stress and accidentlaly killed her. Then John (protecting his wife and son Burke) helped her cover it up making it look like a kidnap. They had more then enough time to cover up what they needed to cover up and make everything perfect to stage the "perfect kidnap". In my opinion, and from what i've researched there were no indication of intrusion, and isnt it perculiar that the night that someone kidnapped and murdered Jonbenet in her own home the Ramseys gave their dog to a nearby neighbor because they were going away the next day. Also, the ransom note that was left in the house was written in the house with paper that was from the house. If it wasn't her parents, this inturder was obviously very comfortbale with they layout of the house, the people in the house and knowledge of where everything was. Even if it wasn't any family members the inturder had to spend a lot of time with the kidnap and killing becuase this was not a quick and easy murder. Going back to the topic of motive, another motive was fame. The Ramsey's are very wealthy people. And Patsy was used to being in the limelight. She used to perform in pagents and even tried to be in Miss America. This is why she exploited Jonbenet the way she did. She wanted her daughter to be even bigger and better then she was and she really didnt care if Jonbenet wanted to perform in the pagents and contests or not. A sick theory is that when she killed off her daughter, that Jonbenet would really be more famous then she could ever of been while she was alive. Once she was dead she would grace the covers of every newspaper and magazine in the country and the world, and everyone would know who she was and who her family was. The Ramsey's would be a household name. And from this murder the Ramsey's were able to expliot themeselves even more by writing their own book on what they feel happened to their daughter in their book called The Death of Innocence. In a sick theory her murder could've been all for publicity.