It all depends "how" and "what" you used to break it. We've all broken a hefty stick/branch by slipping it under our foot and snapping it.
I'm more inclined than ever to think he was in the house on another day before the crime. But which one?
Did Jonbenet have a monitor in her room? If I had the same type, could I monitor it from outside? Karr said he heard Patsy read to Jonbenet. Did she usually?
That note was well thought out. Certain "items" stick out: Monitor, "big" attache case, paper bag, $118,000. The other item is of course, the pad he used to write the note.
Haven't had a paper bag in my house in years, or a monitor. My brief cases are ordinary. Pads and pens are all over my house.
Did John Ramsey have an extraordinary "briefcase"? $118,000 in the bills described only take up about 6" x 12" x 2"....less than a 500 sheet box of 8" x 11 1/2" paper. No real big attache case needed.
The cops like myself misread the note. They set up a trace to catch any call which according to even the latest report was supposed to occur between 8 & 10 on the 26th-the same morning the note was found. But that is not correct.
The call was supposed to come on the 27th....It was clarified by the "get some rest". John Karr had planned on 24 hours at the least!!
And that part of the note was very emotional/physical: Exhausting, rest....and the words pickup/delivery....It sounds more like what (let's guess) John Karr was going through at the time. Obviously, there would be no rest, no pickup, no delivery for the Ramseys. This was all about John Karr.
Now go back to Karr's neighbor who said something about moving furniture on Christmas. It reminds me of the Scott Peterson case. If John moved people, i.e., drove a U Haul for extra money, it wouldn't be unusual.
Go back to Scott Peterson. Fishing wasn't unusual. Where he went to fish was unusual.
Did John Karr move his neighbor during the holidays of 1996? Speculation? Yes?
All Karr has to be is half way between Alabama and Colorado on the AM of the 26th and "check out of a motel" shortly thereafter.
Does anyone remember, factually, where the note *pad* was found? Who found it? When it was found?
I just can't remember and can't seem to find anything on it in the depositions or anything (so much to go through so might have overlooked it).
Thanks.
All my JBR notes are scattered on many disks and CDs and not easily found - that's where I have the answers to the paintbrush question.
I tried to google just now and see if I could find the brush size and measurements in another forum where we all worked on this, but didn't see that anyone had them easily available - I'm sure they're in an archive somewhere.
We had to piece together the length, from knowing the size of the garotte handle, then having to estimate the size of the brush end found in Patsy's tote, without being able to see the whole thing in the crime scene photo or having anything relational for comparison.
That would've given us the length of the missing piece which was most likely used to assault JonBenet sexually. So, I'm not even going to try to hazard a guess as to the exact brush we all bought and used for the experiments.
I bought some similar ones in a cheap package to do the breaking. If you think it's easy to break a 10" paint brush about 1/2" in diameter into three pieces, go ahead and try it. Especially try to make the 3 pieces equal the lengths we know about for those pieces. It's very hard.
Of course, the perp wasn't aiming for specific lengths - but I'm sure the "handle" or "Korea" portion needed to be close to the width of his or her hand. A few of the tiny shards were found outside the door to the wine cellar and IIRC, some in the well of the tote itself.
As for a baby monitor, I'm not aware of any being in JonBenet's room and I'm sure it would've been mentioned.
However, they did have an intercom at the front door and I lived in a house in the 1960s that had those built in each room, so it's possible they had a whole intercom system throughout the house, but no one ever confirmed that for me when I kept asking that question and I never saw the speakers in other rooms in the photos.
No one knows for sure when the perp wrote the note or left it on the stairs, so no one knows for sure what day "tomorrow" was supposed to be. It could have been found in the middle of the night and meant "go back to bed for a while."