I just spent a little over an hour on a sleuthing site regarding this case, and man some of those theories were SO out there! I'm not even going there, just too ludicrous to lend credence to. (If anyone's been there, the theory on "Mr. Big" and "Santa and the photographer" made me laugh... a case this horrible and it was actually comical, I kid you not).
Hey, let me link that post because it's a keeper...
http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20426 Sixth post down. Dude. First that poster was all "I've got a theory I think covers this, yada, I've never posted online before, yada..." so I'm thinking "Okay AS, let's hear it then!" So then she spills it and good God. For her sake, I'm glad she's not a regular poster online, because, in the words of Carrie's mother, "They're going to laugh at you!" I sure as hell did.
These people, they were put under the national microscope for years. And I never saw one thing that pointed to them being some sexually perverse family that could kill their daughter and ram a paintbrush inside her. Sure it's possible. But what points to that? I haven't seen a single thing, even now, that points to them being capable of this. To say, "Oh, I think John was molesting her" -- that's a HUGE assumption to make! If he had EVER done anything that points at that, we'd sure know about it. We're not talking about speeding tickets, but raping his own daughter! I don't know how people can arrive at that with virtually zero evidence of it.
It's absolutely just as possible that someone was in their house while they were at the party, lying in wait. Maybe they thought Christmas night would be a good time to rob it as well, there are usually a lot of expensive toys not yet put away on Christmas. I don't know why that's such a stretch. So the tablet used was from the house, well they would've had plenty of time to find the pen and pad and write the note while they waited.
The Ramseys were 100% right in getting lawyers and they were 100% right not to talk to the police. As their lawyers likely told them, they are dealing with a PD that needs to solve this case. They're gonna take whatever they say and use it against them. Why say anything? They owe the Boulder P.D. nothing. They came in and botched the investigation; I wouldn't talk to them, either.
And no, it's not, "If it were my child I'd talk to police and anyone to get to the bottom... wharrbegarble..." No, that's not how it works. Because if it were my child and the police DARED screw up the investigation and then try to frame ME because they couldn't figure out what else to do once they botched it, oh hell no. If such incompetents tried to implicate that I harmed the most important thing in my life, I'd be beyond pissed. And I'd talk to anyone I wanted to, but I wouldn't talk to rot like that. That's pretty much how they saw it, I think. And I don't blame them a bit.
I don't know who killed that little girl, but the thing is, nobody else does, either. And I think it's wrong for people to start yelling about ridiculous things (fingerprints on a pineapple bowl, oh for God's sake) and accusing these people of doing terrible, just terrible things to their own daughter. Of course it's possible that she was molested by John or Burke (at nine years old, it's a stretch in my opinion, but hey, okay) but anything is possible. But seriously, it's just not probable and I cannot believe how many people are going there when there is zero evidence of that.
After all this time under the microscope, if there was anything about the Ramseys to find, you can bet your ass it would have been found and shouted from the rooftops. It wasn't. I'd like to see this solved too, but hey, there's a reason the Ramseys weren't charged with murder: there was no evidence they were murderers.
There is no evidence they were anything but good parents who's good judgement and life choices afforded them to provide well for their children. That's it. No mystery there. People can hate on them all they want; John got a good education and he worked hard so he had a lot of money. If he was able to afford to call a pilot to ready a plane to get them the hell out of there, I'm glad, because they didn't need to be hauled down to the police station (oh come on, that's exactly what would've happened to a poor person) for a 12-hour game of bad cop/worse cop.
These people lost a six-year-old child who was, from every single thing I've seen, the absolute light of their lives. And that would be a nightmare, a veritable nightmare, for any parent. And because her killer wasn't sitting there beside her grinning, (well shudder...) and because the BPD farked up their investigation, the world gets to call these parents pedophiles? Capable of raping their own daughter, ffs? Really?
I can understand people having theories; theories are fine. But when people start getting all excited and going, "Oh oh, and then this must've happened!" That just... what the hell? What did these people do that would warrant this? Such huge accusations and such little evidence! I so hope Patsy is resting in peace, I really do. Because God knows she wasn't allowed any on earth.