12-19-2016, 03:35 AM
(12-18-2016, 06:41 PM)Duchess Wrote: I hope it wasn't Santa. That would make it even more grotesque than it already is.
It wasn't Bill "Santa" McReynolds. But, he sure made an interesting suspect and Boulder PD was all over him at first.
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^ Bill and Janet McReynolds were friends of the Ramseys. Bill, a retired professor (now dead), had dressed up as Santa for their Christmas party three years in a row and JonBenet reportedly adored him and vice versa.
After her murder, one of JonBenet's friend's mothers said that JonBenet had mentioned that Santa would be paying her a secret visit after Christmas (she was killed on the 26th). But, the Ramseys were going for a second Christmas out of town, so she could have simply been talking about that.
Anyway, the reason the cops, the tabloids and case followers latched onto Bill McReynolds was because of some coincidences that turned out to be irrelevant to JonBenet's death, and both Bill and Janet were cleared of all suspicion.
Their own 9-year-old daughter had been kidnapped and forced to watch one of her friends be sexually molested 22 years earlier, also on the 26th of December.
If that wasn't weird enough.......Janet McReynolds had written an award-winning play about a girl who was sexually abused and tortured in a basement. However, her play was based on the true story of Sylvia Likens (very sad case) which was shocking and made big headlines in the 60s.