How are the JonBenet Ramsey case similar to Lizzie Borden's?

Answer 1

At first glance these two unsolved cases seem dissimilar. But with a closer look there are distinct parallels which in part account for no resolution to the crimes. Both murders were committed in the home of the victims. In each instance the killer had an intimate knowledge of the houses and their floorplans. The killer spent a great amount of time inside of the home indicating the killer was comfortable inside the homes and comfortable with the families. In both cases it appears that no murder weapon was brought to the crime scenes but came from the homes themselves, another indicator that the killer had knowledge of the houses and their floorplans. The execution of the murders indicated the killer had a relationship with the victims. There was no evidence of forced entry or of a perpetrator making a hasty exit giving weight to the theory that the killer remained in the home until police were alerted. In both cases there is ample evidence that the crime scenes had been staged and/or rearranged after the killings. And in both cases evidence became ineffective due to the fact that the victims lived in the home as did the families meaning that hair, fibers, DNA (in the Ramsey case) ect. were useless because of course the family's left evidence in everday living.

For these reasons at least in part the cases have remained unsolved although logically there is little mystery to either crime. If looking at the evidence and an indept knowledge of criminal behaviour it becomes clear that the killers were known to all the victims. In both cases there is no evidence that there was ever an intruder. In the Ramsey case it was clear almost from the start that there was no kidnapper. In the Borden case it is very unlikely that an intruder would sneak into a house with people moving about from room to room, commit one murder, wait an hour and a half and then commit the second murder, and flee from the house in broad daylight without detection.