I recall Lake posting now and then on Websleuths way back when Murphy owned it (I think it was Webbsleuths then), but I don't recall the details of his theory. Was it anything like BlueCrab's?
I don't completely discount the possibility that another juvenile besides Burke (and JonBenet, of course) was there that night. If true and the other juvenile was the Stine boy, he could have loaded his bicycle into the Rs' vehicle when the Rs' stopped at the Stines' to deliver the gift basket, and then ridden the bike home after JonBenet died - which could account for the bicycle tracks that were seen. If the Stine boy was there, it might explain why the Stines and Ramseys became bosom buddies after JonBenet died.
The main problem I have with regards to another juvenile being in the house that night is that there's no evidence suggesting that anyone other than JonBenet and Burke sat at the table where the pineapple bowl was found. (I realize that some people don't believe that just because Burke's fingerprints were found on the bowl that he was at the table... or that even though Patsy said Burke liked iced tea that he would make himself a glass of it by just dipping a tea bag into the water. My kids and I do that all the time, much to my British aunt's horror, who thinks iced tea is a travesty in itself, but dipping a tea bag into cold water to make it is an abomination.)
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