Ned Ray McWorkher
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When have you been led away from Patsy? Her child being dead? Her child being dead in her home? Her home NOT being broken into? The note (which Patsy clearly wrote)? 99 percent of Americans would have been tried & convicted on much less.Ok, I'll take that as a yes. Awesome. We have two inferences here:
(1) It is more plausible to conclude that whoever wrote the ransom note did not want the police called. (And, we know that because the note said don't call the police or FBI or I'll behead your daughter-by the way that's pretty strong.)
(2) It is more plausible to conclude that whoever wrote the ransom note is the one who committed the murder. (That was excellent by the way because most people conclude the exact opposite.)
All right next question:
Isn't it more plausible to conclude the whoever wrote the ransom note did not intend for the police to obtain the ransom note because it was potentially incriminating?
(Also, I'll get to why the note was written to John in due course we have to take this step by step.)
P.S.-If you really want to come to the correct conclusions when you think through these cases like this you can't be prejudicial. You have to go into it with a completely open mind and follow the inferences no matter where they lead.
That note (when included with the 8 missing pages) speaks volumes.
Can you hear it? There was no stranger in their home that night. The male child is unlikely to be the killer. It has to be one the parents. When you finally realize Patsy wrote the note, you can logically infer she caused the incident. Why would she write a note for another persons crime? All that beheading stuff & threats against calling police were window dressing. How many kids were beheaded in Colorado that year? The final point is that the body (needed for a ransom, usually) was still at the house. What fool leaves a ransom note and the collateral that would warrant the ransom payment?
If you can prove someone other than Patsy wrote the note, you can start to disprove her guilt. But if you can't, how do explain her writing.g the note but not doing the crime?
But since it is fairly clear that she DID write the note, is a mute point.
Thanks for the pointers on studying/researching murder cases too. You appear to be a regular Angela Lansbury....

