Time to rethink....or not!

It was hard to be in the US around the Christmas of 1996 and to not be caught in the Jon Benet Ramsey mania. The beautiful, angelic little child who was brutally murdered, her ambitious mother, the beauty pageant history - there could not have been a more tragical drama if someone tried to make one up. I admit that I was one of those people who thought the parents were surely guilty - I wasn’t completely sure (whoever was?) but I was convinced that they had something to do with the murder, if not all of it. When I heard the news that there was a confession from the actual killer, I felt really bad the poor parents and was willing to do my “mea culpa”. Check out the lates feed from Google News and it seems like there is still plenty of doubt as to the veracity of the confessor and his confession.

This has all definitely made me a little bit more skeptical about the “parents-did-it” theory, but I am not yet totally ready to give up on it. Isn’t that the problem with pre-judgement? You hang to a theory long enough - it becomes Gospel. You are way too invested to let go of it now, even though evidence points to the contrary. I wonder about the police in Colorado those few years - I wonder if that was what happened with them. They found a plausible theory and stuck to it and ignored or rationalized away anything that took away from it.