I still wholly believe it was the parents.
That house was a MAZE. Maids who had worked there for YEARS didn't know the room JonBenet's body was found in even EXISTED. The cops searched the house for seven hours and never happened upon her body. It was JonBenet's father who found her body, and then promptly MOVED it from the scene of the crime, carried it upstairs and threw a blanket over it.
I'm sorry...I don't care HOW distraught you are, everyone knows that the cardinal rule at a crime scene is that you touch NOTHING.
Going back to the house- are we really supposed to believe that a man brilliant enough to break into the house without leaving any signs of a forced entry (or fingerprints), a man brilliant enough to navigate a house described by past employees as a "labyrinth," is dumb enough to forget to bring his own pen and paper to write a ransom note? A ransom note that is 8 pages long? A ransom note that had several drafts, which were found in the kitchen wastepaper basket???
My feelings on such a matter would be that if you had just killed someone and feared being caught, you probably wouldn't sit down in the family home to write an 8 page letter about it.
And who writes a ransom note and LEAVES the body in the house? Your whole bargaining point is gone.
And I agree with Irish- the pageant thing is really too disturbing to ignore. There is NO reason a 6 year old girl should be wearing such blatantly sexy make-up, clothing, and hairstyles. And what other way can you describe what she was wearing?? I saw a video of her just today in which I kid you not, she was in a Vegas showgirl costume. WTF???? SHE'S SIX!!!!
Her parents dehumanized her. I really think they viewed her as a LOT older than she actually was, and whatever happened, I think this may have contributed to it.
Furthermore, I don't know if you guys remember this, but I remember thinking at 12 years old, that this was odd: In interviews with the press JonBenet's mom kept saying "I loved THAT child." Not "I love JonBenet," or "I loved my little girl." Referring to someone that close to you in such a manner is a classic way to distance yourself from that person. Kind of strange...