@Daisy wrote:
@LoriLori I was reading an interview with the chief on reddit. From 2014, I think it was.
Did you read that? If so, did I understand this correctly? He thought Patsy wrote the note herself...and John might have suspected it. Later, he found JB in the basement...while the lady detective was in the house...and also before he and his friend had went looking for her. At that point, he already knew where she was.
But, on the 911 tape, we think we can hear him telling Burke that they're not speaking to him. So he must have known what had happened before Patsy had called the police...not when he had went looking for her on his own (while the lady detective was in the house) and found her, right? What am I missing?
@Daisy Sunflower, as far as what John knew when, for sure he knew JonBenet was dead before the 911 call because before Patsy called 911, John had already called multiple attorneys and his pilot. The rest of what he knew when is speculation, no one will probably ever know.
There are several theories about the note, complicated by the missing pages in the notepad that contained the practice notes (John likely disposed of those along with other evidence).
Some people think John dictated to Patsy. Most think it was all Patsy. Maybe it was a combination of both since it's got Patsy's over-the-top melodramatic personality with John's cool, collected one and his $118,000 bonus. We'll never know.
Neither John nor Patsy's stories of how they read and found the note are credible. We're meant to believe after practicing the note multiple times this phantom killer neatly placed the ransom note on the steps of the spiral staircase that led to John and Patsy's bedroom. John told interrogators he was in his underwear crouching on this same spiral staircase reading the pages spread out on the floor. It defies common sense.
As for what John knew when: Officer Linda Arndt had zero control over the house which had not even been secured as a crime scene. Victim advocates were even cleaning -- eliminating fingerprints.
It's a fact that John disappeared that morning for a while. Linda Arndt having no control of the house had no idea where he was. Hours later when his fidgeting was getting on her nerves, Linda Arndt told John to search the house "top to bottom" just to keep him busy --
(also suspicious coming from someone who made calls on the phone the kidnappers were supposedly going to use during the time they said they'd call) --
and instead of going top to bottom he went right to the basement and the obscure room with the latch on top and the light switch in an inconvenient spot, along with his former best friend Fleet White, and John went straight to the body. Fleet White said he could not see a thing in the dark, creepy room yet John said he'd found her before he even put the light on.
back atcha. 
