Maturity?

In looking at the JonBenet Ramsey murder case some sleuths see a degree of maturity though I, at times, have considerable doubts about that. Certain terms in the ransom note particularly the use of the word attache and the phrase brown paper bag are viewed as indicating a man closer to middle age than youth.

I ofcourse question how maturity can be deemed to exist when the very existence of a useless ransom note contravenes any notion of maturity and instead is suggestive of immature impulses. I certainly question why a brown paper bag is known only to middle aged men rather than teen age males? Sure, in grocery stores it is far more common to encounter plastic now but that does not mean the phrase is unknown or that the item itself is unknown. Any bookish young male would certainly have encountered references to the phrase and any young male inclined to read various magazines containing centerfolds are likely to read jokes about "putting a brown paper bag over her head" for even if brown paper bags are not quite routinely encountered anymore, the jokes persist.

We all experience plastic shopping bags, but particularly at an upscale grocery store at a location near the display of mushrooms it is quite common to find a stack of brown paper bags rather than plastic ones. So I really see no valid basis for concluding that a brown paper bag would be a phrase utilized mainly by a middle aged male because it is an item alien to youthful males.

Attache? I likewise see the term as being well known to the twelve and over crowd. Military attache, cultural attache, attache case ... these are not terms that are somehow alien to the world of teen agers and young adults. Its perhaps been an erronious conclusion on the part of certain internet sleuths that the word attache is alien to younger males.

I think so much of the crime points to inexperience that we should focus on youths. Oh, no element of the crime is limited to youth. Even the initial entry into that window is easier for a youth but perfectly capable of having been done not only by a fully grown male but by a fairly large male. Consider the concoction of a ransom note when a murder is intended. The note is futile. Even a short note of the customary and expected content will gain the intruder nothing at all as there will never be a ransom payment. Yet the intruder not only writes a note but goes on and on with the note well beyond what any real kidnapper would be likely to do. After all, how many kidnappers bring Dirty Harry themes and vague references to foreign intrigue into a simple ransom note?

Much of the night's activities seem more akin to experimentation than a dedicated desire. Consider for a moment the use of a stun gun. Twenty or thirty sets of stun gun burns would indicate a pleasurable night was had by the intruder. Oh sure, we can be quite grateful that JonBenet was spared such an ordeal, however, the two stun gun marks do seem to be more consonant with mere youthful experimentation than with an established hobby the intruder had.

We, as sleuths, are grateful for the presence of the dna. We are even proud of that little six year old girl for getting a piece of her attacker. Oh we know that those tiny little fingernails were not really much of a defense for her. We know the attacker was probably not troubled by such an ineffective annoyance, but we cherish that little girl's final gift to us: her attacker's dna. We can admire her courage to claw ineffectually at that cord around her neck. We don't know for sure if it was repeatedly tightened and loosened but we do know that with its flat inward surface and rounded outer edge it was optimal for repeated near strangulation. We look at how deep that cord was embedded in her neck and know that she never had a chance but we are grateful for her feeble efforts for that is what provided us with the dna. Somehow, she was able to scratch her attacker.

Yet, consider that dna. Wouldn't a middle aged male experienced with the infliction of pain know enough to avoid even the tiny fingernails of a six year old girl? Wouldn't a middle aged male have immobilized his victim entirely before embarking upon the more unspeakable events of that night? Doesn't the crime suggest youth rather than maturity?