Profiling Crime Cases - the JonBenet case (1996-2000)

Profiling Crime Cases - the JonBenet case (1996-2000)

Posted by Jan den Breejen on April 19, 2000 at 01:41:15:

Profiling Crime Cases - the JonBenet case (1996-2000)

Case text:

PATSY RAMSEY has secretly confessed to the murder of her daughter JonBenet, says a top forensic psychiatrist. Dr. Judianne Densen Gerher, an expert on the criminal mind, says unmistakable evidence of Patsy's guilt is written in her own words in "The Death of Innocence," the new book penned by Patsy and her husband John. In their book JonBenet's parents point accusatory fingers at former friends and employees, mysterious pedophiles and midnight cat burglars. And during numerous appearances on TV; the couple continue to staunchly declare their innocence. But Dr. Densen-Gerber, a congressional mental health adviser, said years of experience have shown her that the spoken and written words of killers subconsciously reveal hidden clues to their guilt. And she finds plenty of clues that show the Ramseys are secretly confessing their guilt in THE BOOK ('look how tragic my situation is' is the books message; jdb.) "The more you say, the more you reveal:' Dr. Densen-Gerber exp1ained. "What the Ramseys say; especially Patsy, is: 'Catch me if you can - PLEASE CATCH ME." Dr. Densen-Gerber, 65, is an acclaimed therapist and lawyer who has studied the case from the very beginning. And she says that JonBenet's mom points a finger of guilt at herself in her description of a panic attack she had about a month after the Christmas 1996 murder in Boulder, Colo. Patsy writes that her mind suddenly filled with the image of JonBenet's murderer slowly tightening a dog leash-like noose around the child's neck. Her body trembled and her heart pounded as she fought to breathe -"as if someone were strangling me. I desperately gasped for air." Dr. Densen-Gerber was stunned by Patsy's description of the attack. "In all my years, I've never heard someone use the word 'strangling' to describe an anxiety attack," she said. "It's one important clue from Patsy's subconscious that clearly indicates the guilt she's feeling." Another important clue is revealed, says the expert, when Patsy indicates : she has created a FANTASY WORLD to hide in, a world where the former Miss America contestant puts herself on par with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and even the Virgin Mary. She writes that she chose a BLACK VEIL to wear to JonBenet's funeral because a picture of Jackie wearing a veil "FLASHED across my mind." And while examining a figure of the Virgin Mary on a cross she wore, she ,"had this IMMEDIATE empathy" with the mother of Jesus Christ because "she watched them kill her child," Patsy writes. These images are clear signs that Patsy is searching for a way to deal with guilt; said Dr. Densen-Gerber. "It's called restitutive FANTASY -a fake world a parental killer creates to restore the feeling of innocence, a place where you come to believe you really didn't do it." And Dr. Densen-Gerber pointed to even more passages in the book where she finds hidden meaning. Patsy's writing shows that to cope with her GUILT, she has convinced herself that JonBenet wasn't a real person and instead IMAGINES the little beauty queen as a play doll, the expert disclosed. Patsy tells of a special present that she gave JonBenet that fateful Christmas day: A 24-inch specially crafted doll fashioned to look like JonBenet all done up as a beauty queen. "Patsy dwells a lot on that doll," said Dr. Densen- Gerber. "I believe she thinks of JonBenet as a toy. After all, Patsy was entering her in these

pageants, dressing her up in different outfits, making her sing and dance, like a little girl would do with a doll." And the doll could explain how a mother like Patsy Ramsey could do the un-thinkable - murder her own child: By turning Jon-Benet into an inanimate object in her mind "She imagines she's only killing a plaything, a toy she used to dress up and order around without a peep of complaint," said Dr. Densen-Gerber. Patsy goes on to say that after she gave JonBenet the doll beneath the Christmas tree where her body would later be placed, she asked the girl: "Well, now, doesn't she look like you?" JonBenet picked up the doll and held it away from her. "I really don't think she looks that much like me", she said as she laid the doll to one side and ignored it. In a 1997 interview, Patsy also mentioned that JonBenet didn't like the doll and indicated that her daughter thought the done-up figurine was "too much."

Dr.Densen-Gerber is convinced that JonBenet's rejection of the doll shows that, deep inside, she was rebelling more and more against the beauty pageant life Patsy had chosen for her. "She was wetting the bed. She was soiling the bed," says Densen-Gerber. "Don't tell me that's not a sign of ABUSE, physical or mental, going on here." In fact, Dr. Densen-Gerber believes JonBenet's rejection of the doll that holiday morning may have been the trigger that sent Patsy into a killing RAGE hours later! Also in their book, the Ramseys blast the Boulder cops as incompetent, although they offer no new clues to the identity of the intruder they say wrote a ransom note and murdered their daughter in a kidnapping-gone-wrong. But Dr. Densen-Gerber believes their writing reveals far more than they intended - a scenario for how the phony ransom note was actually written. The Ramseys drew investigators' attention when they used the expression "and hence" in a Christmas message a year after the murder. That's because that very same uncommon expression also appeared in the ransom note!

In the book, Patsy writes that "John and I had each written a version (of the holiday greeting they posted on a family Internet Web site). With both copies in hand, John dictated and I typed at the computer as we merged the two into one." Patsy says they may have chosen the expression "and hence" for their holiday greeting because they'd written the ransom note over and over again for police as samples of their handwriting. Dr. Densen-Gerber sees a deeper meaning - a

direct parallel to the way John and Patsy composed the fake ransom note

together. "In trying to explain it, I'm convinced they are revealing how they actually wrote the note," she explained. "The more you say, the more you reveal!"

++++ Jan's analysis

Patsy's mind seems to work in a very intense way; she experiences very strong dark fantasy images and strong feelings which trigger her behavior and seem to come like thunderflashes at clear skies. When looking at the case my impression is that Patsy is a Mercurial Style/DSMIV Borderline character. Let's look at Mercurial symptoms as written by dr.Oldham:

- Intensity; nothing is trivial, nothing is taken lightly (the rejection of the doll was probably taken very personal by Patsy; perhaps she felt rejected herself and couldn't stop her anger impulses driving her to kill)

- They show what they feel (i.e. hate)

- Uninhibited, undaunted by risks (when Mercurial persons'emotional switch has toggled they just keep going on; can't stop when the 'love' toggle is turned over into the 'hate'/attack position)

- Imaginative, alternate states; SKILLED AT DISTANCING OR DISTRACTING THEMSELVES FROM REALITY when it is painful or harsh (I know a Mercurial woman who accidentally met her schizophrenic sister wandering around at the streets of Rotterdam; and she gave her $10 dollar to create the image in her mind that the problem was solved now)

- Demand more than the regular person could give her (her daughter looks Self Confident Style charactered and probably was better than most other children would be at playing the desired role of beauty queen; but for Patsy it still wasn't enough and she got frustrated and hateful because of it. Possibly Patsy has a deep inferiority complex/self hate and used her daughter as a means to compensate)

- Highly reactive moods, unstable, feeling deserted and devastated by others, mood crash, disappointment, angry outbursts, become angry with a person, hate her intensely (the 'other person' is often thought to be guilty to the Mercurial persons problems)

- OVERREACT TO THE MOST TRIVIAL INCIDENTS; impulsive, excessive, set off by little things, rage and fury

- Skilful in adopting to ROLES (the innocent mother, the mourning Jacky Kennedy-role); adapting new identities, life styles, role play (as substitute for not being sure of own identity)

- SELF-DAMAGING (hit me!-mindset; by her home-made-tragedy she unconsciously WANTS to be punished by leaking bits evidence in her many public performances; 'the more you talk, the more you betray'; a talent for making people around you so angry they reject you and hate you)

Ik now a booze addicted Mercurial Style woman who doesn't take care of her young child; not bringing him to school, not giving him food at the right time. Patsy is just one of many extreme Mercurial mothers who damage her child's lives; its one of societies many problems that are very difficult to handle by government or family.

Jan







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