Do they happen to know the medications Patsy was on prior to the murder?
I ask because, like Jonbenet, I had a parent battling cancer when I was the same age in the 90s. I actually remember being in 3rd grade while he was sick and watching the case unfold in real time. Tonight, I remembered that my father was on medication during, and in remission (with maintenance chemo), that would make him act out of character, and my mother later spoke about how hard it was to balance having empathy and taking care of him while he was so "mean". She confessed that she briefly considered divorcing him, because it was that hard, but she knew that it wasn't actually who he was. She was a nurse practitioner herself, who had worked in Oncology prior, so I feel it was something he had to take or she would have withdrawn it herself. He was generally very level headed and calm. I don't know what that medication was, I wish I could ask, but my mother later also passed from cancer. All this to say, I wonder if patsy was prescribed it and reacted similarly and there was an outburst. I had never considered this take until tonight. That could possibly explain John's willingness to cover up for her. I don't know, but just thought I'd put that out there as it was relevant to this forum.