[Old School Hound]

Linda Arnt doesn't sway me very much.  She did a 180 later on, and actually advocated for the Ramseys.  She also sued the police department, and her story had some elements of controversy in it.

BUT, personally, I don't like the way that JonBenet was paraded around the pageant circuit.  I don't think I can hold Patsy accountable just because I disagree with what she did with JonBenet.  Being around sports for as many years as I have, I've seen many parents living vicariously through their kids.  And it's NEVER good for the child.  I can't say for sure that Patsy was doing that, but it sure does appear that way.

I think Linda was made a scapegoat. Yes, she made mistakes. But she wasn't the only one. I understand that Linda apparently met with Patsy before her death but, to my knowledge, to this day, she has never changed her view that she looked into the eyes of the killer that morning.  Also , Holly Smith , a supervisor of the Boulder County Sexual Abuse team discovered most of JonBenet's underwear was soiled with fecal matter, possible evidence of abuse. Like Linda, she was later dropped from the case. She wrote  a book called Fire of the Five Hearts: A Memoir of Treating Incest , decribing the grueling, and emotionally draining environment of working with victims of incest . Her chapter on the Jon Benet case was redacted. However, she has spoken about what she discovered in JBR's bedroom. Holly felt like most all of the little girl's  underwear being soiled was a red flag. According to Smith, "There is a dynamic of children that have been sexually abused sometimes soiling themselves or uninating in their beds to keep someone who is hurting them at bay." There was a grapefruit-sized piece of fecal matter found in Jon Benet's sheets. Something very, very unsavory was going on inside that house.