[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I can't get into this one too much atm because my latest obsession is with the West memphis 3.....look it up sometime if you need a new project

Oh I have vaguely read about this before and was going to watch that paradise lost documentary about it but totally forgot for some reason. The documentary though..apparently shows actual police footage of dead kids bodies and stuff :S I think I need to try and find a version with that edited out because as fascinating as these cases are, I really do not want to see that and I don't think anyone should really :S

From the tiny bit I read about it, it seems it was just blamed on the 3 lads because they were 'different' and it was all just circumstantial evidence...so yeah. I guess I will go back to this once finished watching these.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Oh I have vaguely read about this before and was going to watch that paradise lost documentary about it but totally forgot for some reason. The documentary though..apparently shows actual police footage of dead kids bodies and stuff :S I think I need to try and find a version with that edited out because as fascinating as these cases are, I really do not want to see that and I don't think anyone should really :S

From the tiny bit I read about it, it seems it was just blamed on the 3 lads because they were 'different' and it was all just circumstantial evidence...so yeah. I guess I will go back to this once finished watching these.

Yeah i watched Paradise Lost last night and I watched Devils Knot which is a movie about it last week. I've been reading up alot about it and I think that thos guys actually did do it tbh although I've been doing a fair bit of flip flopping on it too

The footage of the bodies is really upsetting, it was a really horrific crime. the scenes in the courtroom too where they're describing what was done to the boys and their parents sitting their listening, I couldn't even begin to imagine the devastation that they must have felt

[Ammi]

...yeah, the same as with Niamh, Vicky...it is very interesting, this case ...and I would be really be up for watching the links but I have another 'obsession' also atm and it would be too much of an overload and hard to absorb both...(I've also been perked in interest with Niamh and CeeCee's 'obsession'/case file..)..so I've been resisting that as well because I know that I'll be hooked....

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Oh I have vaguely read about this before and was going to watch that paradise lost documentary about it but totally forgot for some reason. The documentary though..apparently shows actual police footage of dead kids bodies and stuff :S I think I need to try and find a version with that edited out because as fascinating as these cases are, I really do not want to see that and I don't think anyone should really :S

From the tiny bit I read about it, it seems it was just blamed on the 3 lads because they were 'different' and it was all just circumstantial evidence...so yeah. I guess I will go back to this once finished watching these.

It's what I've been obsessed with for the past few weeks. Niamh and I have been discussing it in "irritating thread"

Those 3 are actually out now and the case is unsolved and it can't be investigated further because of the plea deal they signed.

[Cal.]

I watched the same documentary series too Vicky. I think it's definitely an intruder. The sexual abuse element to it and the fact there was DNA not belonging to her family in her underwear confirms that to me. The pineapple thing wasn't as incriminating to me as it was presented in the documentary - the intruder and Jon Benet were both hidden away in the big house and so the intruder could have easily fed her some pinepapple lying around when no one was in the room if she was complaining about being hungry. It's very sad that the case couldn't be solved because her father accidentally ruined the crime scene when discovering her body and the fact the investigation has been hampered so many times due to stupid people like John Mark Karr making ridiculous statements about how he 'didn't kill her' but 'was with her when she died'.

[Cal.]

Oh I think I watched a different documentary series. ID in the U.K. just aired a three part documentary series about the case.

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Cal.

I watched the same documentary series too Vicky. I think it's definitely an intruder. The sexual abuse element to it and the fact there was DNA not belonging to her family in her underwear confirms that to me. The pineapple thing wasn't as incriminating to me as it was presented in the documentary - the intruder and Jon Benet were both hidden away in the big house and so the intruder could have easily fed her some pinepapple lying around when no one was in the room if she was complaining about being hungry. It's very sad that the case couldn't be solved because her father accidentally ruined the crime scene when discovering her body and the fact the investigation has been hampered so many times due to stupid people like John Mark Karr making ridiculous statements about how he 'didn't kill her' but 'was with her when she died'.

I think this may have been a different one.

CBS one kinda debunks the 'DNA evidence'

I cannot get my head around an intruder did it. At all. The whole ransom note thing just makes no sense. Written inside the house, takes like 20 mins to write, plus was a second draft so talking 30 mins at least. After killing a kid, who would stick around 30 minutes to write a fake ransom note? :S

because her father accidentally ruined the crime scene when discovering her body

I wish I had your faith in people. Patsy called friends to come round 2 minutes after ending the 911 call. Friend who discovered the body with John noted he saw the body in a dark room before even switching the light on...etc