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From Yum-Yum's deleted post:
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"Lake's theory was great ... as long as you IGNORE the available evidence. Stuff like beaver hair, sweater fibers, Bloomies, cobwebs, missing evidence of tracks to/from the home and debris in the home, the ransom note handwriting, Ramsey behavior (like Burke's voice on the 911 tape, failure to protect Burke, etc). It goes on and on."
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1. Beaver hair, sweater fibers, Bloomies, cobwebs, the ransom note handwriting, and Ramsey behavior is all consistant with a cover-up by John and Patsy. Nothing to do with an "under the age of criminal culpability" killer or killers.

2. "missing evidence of tracks to/from the home and debris in the home" is simply not true.

From John Ramsey ABK's 1998 interview with Lou Smit ABK:

23 LOU SMIT: (Handing next sheet of
24 photographs).
25 JOHN RAMSEY:
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1 BRYAN MORGAN: If I understand it,
2 all of these were taken in the early stages of
3 the kidnapping scenes, which means early in the
4 morning.
5 LOU SMIT: Yes.
6 JOHN RAMSEY: These tracks in the
7 snow here, might have been bicycle tracks.
8 LOU SMIT: That's in photograph
9 101?10 JOHN RAMSEY: Right. It wasn't
11 unusual for him to ride through the yard.
12 LOU SMIT: Did you say he had a
13 bicycle that Christmas?
14 JOHN RAMSEY: I know we got -- I
15 got a bicycle. I think that's what it was. I
16 gave myself a bicycle.
17 LOU SMIT: That Christmas?
18 JOHN RAMSEY: Yeah, Patsy got a
19 bicycle, I got a bicycle, JonBenet got a
20 bicycle. Burke already had one, I am pretty
21 sure. I don't know what it is, I guess
22 (INAUDIBLE).

11 LOU SMIT: Now we are going to go
12 kind of into later on when the photographs were
13 taken later on the next day. And that
14 photograph 204, what is that a photograph of?
15 JOHN RAMSEY: Well, that's the
16 same screen door going out on to the patio.
17 LOU SMIT: That's the south door?
18 JOHN RAMSEY: Right.
19 LOU SMIT: Again that's the damage?
20 JOHN RAMSEY: Right. I think that
21 was -- that was there. Well, the door was
22 locked at least in the picture, the inside door,
23 but it seems to me I remember it was split,
24 but --
25 LOU SMIT: Okay. So that's damage
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1 to the door, that's the south door, it could
2 have been --
3 JOHN RAMSEY: It was split at
4 least, there was some damage, yes. There was
5 bicycle tread tires, that's what they look like,
6 mountain bike tire.

There are many additional references to the bicycle but no others to the bicycle tracks. At least that I can find.

During my 1999 interview with Lou Smit ABK I asked him if he thought the "intruder" could be a juvenile? He responded: "Absolutely!"

I followed up by asking him if the intruder could be Doug Stine? He responed: "Doug Stine should be looked at very closely."

As I recall, Lake's theory is founded on a juvenile intruder who was a friend of Burke's.