I can't resist adding one more scenario, another little skit I dreamed up a few years ago, as a companion to the skit featuring John and Patsy. This one features an apocryphal character who, as has been alleged, teamed up with "bootman" Michael Helgoth, to invade the Ramsey home and slaughter JonBenet. An especially interesting feature of this one is the explanation it offers for the very strange initials S.B.T.C.
Honey I killed the kid (Intruder Version)
What kid? What are
you talking about?
The Ramsey kid. The
little pageant princess? JonBenet?
JonBenet Ramsey? You
killed JonBenet Ramsey?
Yup. Me and my
buddy, Mike -- Mike Helgoth, you know him.
We decided to sneak into the Ramsey place yesterday, just for fun. And besides, that John Ramsey, he needed
taking down a peg, I read about him in the Business News, he was flying just a
bit too high, made millions last year, the arrogant bastard.
Since when do you read the Business News?
Are you kidding?
That’s how I keep an eye on my Mafia buddies. Anyhow, it was Christmas, we were bored,
sniffed some coke, and decided to do a little breaking and entering. We happened to see the Ramseys tooling by in
their car, so we knew their place was gonna be empty. I told Mike to bring his stun gun, just in
case. And his dowsing rod.
His dowsing rod?
Yeah, he’s got this amazing ability to sniff out broken
windows with that rod of his. If we
hadn’t found one, I have NO idea how we could’ve gotten in. We checked every single basement window and,
wouldn’t you know it, the last one we checked, the one with the grate over it,
that rod just started dancing and then pointed straight down. I went to lift the grate but Mike, you know
he’s a big animal lover, he said “wait, there’s a spider web. We don’t want to displace it, that poor
spider spent a lot of time spinning that thing.” So we had to be very very careful, just
lifting one side of the grate, leaving the side with the web alone, ‘cause
Mike, he’s the sensitive type, I didn’t want him to get all riled up.
Wow. So you went down
into that window well? How come your
clothes aren’t all filthy dirty?
Oh, we took off our clothes before going down there. Balled them up and carried them under our
arms. Hey, I was wearing my favorite
wool suit, you know, the one with all the unsourced fibers all over it? Didn’t want to get THAT messed up. But the toughest part was reaching through
that tiny little hole in the window to get to the latch. That thing was no bigger than a
baseball. Luckily I have small
hands. Didn’t even nick myself on the
glass.
Why didn’t you just kick the whole window in?
Gosh, you know, that never even occurred to me. I’ll have to remember that one. Honey, you’d make a great burglar.
Thanks, dear. Next
time I want to go with you. Then what
happened?
Well, once we got the window open, we had to be real careful
because the sill and the frame were just really really filthy as Hell. We just very carefully skootched in there,
holding our breath, to make sure none of that crap came off on us. And then, naturally, we put our clothes back
on, ‘cause it was VERY cold down there, didn’t want to catch a chill.
Then what did you do?
Was there anything there worth robbing?
Dang! I WILL have to
make sure to take you with me next time, Hon.
There must have been all sorts of valuable stuff, but that just slipped
our minds, for some reason it never occurred to us we could take anything. What we DID do, though, was write a ransom
note.
Why did you do that?
Oh, I dunno.
Boredom, I guess. Once we got in
there, no one was home – and we realized there wasn’t much of anything to
do. And hence -- I said, “Mike, let’s
find something to write on and write a ransom note, just for kicks.” So he rooted around in the kitchen and found
this notepad and rooted around some more and found a sharpie pen. He dictated and I wrote. ‘Cause you know how nice my penmanship is.
Yeah, you always were a stickler for neat margins and, hey,
you NEVER fail to dot every single “i”.
Every blessed one.
High as I was on coke, I made sure of that, it’s a matter of pride.
So what did the note say?
Oh, we said we were a “small foreign faction,” we
“respected” John’s bussiness but “not the country it served,” stuff like that.
How much of a ransom did you ask for?
Well, you know, my very favorite Psalm in the Bible . . .
Oh yeah, the 118th, that’s a doozy I know, all
about “binding the sacrifice,” that one gives me chills.
So I figured, why not ask for 118,000 bucks, in honor of
that psalm. I dunno, we were high. Made sense at the time. And we signed it S.B.T.C.
Super Bowl Tiger Cub
Exactly! You read my
mind! The name of our little kitty.
What happened when the Ramseys got home?
Well, we heard their car, so we laid low in the basement
until it got all quiet. And then Mike
decides he’s hungry, so we head for the kitchen to get us a snack. But lo and behold, this little girl is
already there ahead of us, snacking on a bowl of pineapple.
Your favorite.
Yup. I made a grab
for the bowl and she screamed bloody murder, so Mike zapped her with his stun
gun and I taped her mouth with this duct tape I happened to have in my
pocket. But she woke up and started to
squirm and next thing I knew she’d fallen on the floor and hit her head against
this baseball bat that happened to be lying there. And that was it. She didn’t move a muscle. We couldn’t revive her.
Wow! So what did you
do next? If it was me, I’da been outa
there in a second. ‘Cause her screams
could have wakened everyone in the house.
Really? Gee, you’re
good, we never thought of that. We
figured, hey, if the police see her like this they’re gonna think her mother
must have “lost it” and clobbered her with the bat. Now John, we don’t particularly like him –
but we got nothing against Patsy, she’s OK.
Oh, Patsy, I love her, she’s always helping out at church.
Right. So, we
figured, we gotta make it look like some intruder did it.
But some intruder DID do it, silly.
Only it didn’t look that way. It looked like an accident. And you can’t make an accident look like an
accident. So we had to make it look
like a murder.
I seeeee . . . .
So we rigged up this “garrote” type thing and roughed her up
a bit, so it would look like she’d been attacked by some monster pedophile or
something.
What did you do with the ransom note?
The ransom note? What
ransom note?
You know, the fantasy note you guys put together when you
were bored? Before the family came back?
Oh my God. The ransom
note! When the Ramseys came home, Mike
panicked and laid it out on this spiral staircase in the back. I think we must have left it there, on
the steps!
Didn’t that have your handwriting on it?
Yep!!! It did. Oh my God, my handwriting’s on that
note! Why didn’t Mike just pocket
it? Why did he have to leave it on those
steps? Sooner or later someone’s bound
to find it!
And when they do . . .
Well, who’s gonna think to check ME out? Unless Mike says something. And you know, Mike, he’s excitable, he’s a
blabber. Oh, my God, he’s gonna panic,
I just know it. Honey, could I ask you
a big fat favor? Just this once.
Don’t worry love, I’ll handle everything. Consider it done.
[Michael Helgoth is alleged to have committed suicide one day after Alex Hunter announced in a
press conference: "I want to say something to the person or persons who
took this baby from us, the list of suspects narrows. Soon there will be
no-one on the list but you."]
I can't find any fault with your theory.
ReplyDeleteI'm from England, I'm presuming that the consumption of Pineapple is illegal in the USA, hence the parents vehemently denying any knowledge of it.
Poor John must have developed Alzheimer's or something. He can't remember whether he broke the window or not, he can't remember if he drove home or took a cab, he can't remember how he broke the window. He's lucky he can remember he's called John. No wonder he didn't have his key, he wouldn't have remembered how to use it to get in the house.
And Burke. Well Burke is just a nine year old nympho with a penchant for pineapple and bashing his sister's head in with a torch!
And Patsy. Poor Patsy, dear woman was so off the planet that she wrote a letter, on her paper, with her pen, using her idioms for her to find!
Dear sir, I believe you have it spot on. The doubters only need to look at THE FACTS of this case. Not the theories, not the conspiracies. The BPD messed up. They went in scared of the Big Cheese. And now justice will not be served for this poor little girl. May she rest in peace.
Thanks. Everything you say makes sense. Which means everything I say makes sense. Even in England. Which is nice. :-)
DeleteIt's fascinating to be honest. Too many people obviously have the need to cloud the issue with fantasies of what "might" have happened whilst ignoring the facts that are right there.
DeleteThank you for sharing this blog.
Maybe you already mentioned it but why didn't JR just say, "look, someone broke the window"? Why say he did it last summer and risk any of the thousands of people that went through the home at Christmas coming forward and saying, "hey, I saw that window just before Christmas...it wasn't broken"? I agree with you that something ain't right about this window and their story but if someone saw the window intact JR would have been done. So once again why not say the intruder broke it?
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As I see it, John broke the window the night of the crime to stage an intruder breakin, but didn't have time to complete his staging. When Patsy called so early, he was caught with his pants down, because his plan was to complete the window staging later that day or night. Since the staging wasn't complete, he must have felt sure the police would notice and his staging would have been obvious. So he was forced to claim he'd broken it earlier, or else he could have been arrested on the spot. After that he just improvised, and somehow it worked for him.
Deletere, steve thomas. his theory patsy killed jb over bed wetting doesnt hold water with me. the cover up staging etc, was done to cover something far more sinister like sexual abuse.
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