"She's gone," Pam says. "She got her victory at 3 o'clock in the morning on Saturday." (emphasis mine) http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3983709 Victory! http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/ransom3.html Victory = death (or the Paugh family idea of what follows death?) Keep talking Pam.
There's an old hymn, "Victory in Jesus." Victory in Jesus I HEARD AN OLD, OLD STORY HOW A SAVIOUR CAME FROM GLORY HOW HE GAVE HIS LIFE ON CALVARY TO SAVE SOMEONE LIKE ME I HEARD ABOUT HIS GROANING, OF HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD'S ATONING THEN I REPENTED OF MY SIN AND WON THE VICTORY OH, VICTORY IN JESUS, MY SAVIOUR FOREVER HE SOUGHT ME AND HE BOUGHT ME WITH HIS REDEEMING BLOOD HE LOVED ME ERE I KNEW HIM AND ALL MY LOVE IS DUE HIM HE PLUNGED ME TO VICTORY BENEATH THE CLEANSING FLOOD I HEARD ABOUT HIS HEALING, OF HIS CLEANSING POW'R REVEALING HOW HE MADE THE LAME TO WALK AGAIN AND CAUSED THE BLIND TO SEE AND THEN I CRIED "DEAR JESUS, COME AND HEAL MY BROKEN SPIRIT" AND SOMEHOW JESUS CAME AND BROUGHT TO ME THE VICTORY OH, VICTORY IN JESUS, MY SAVIOUR FOREVER
WY--I live in Texas as you know, and I often will just jump in my car and go driving down roads I've never been on before, looking for places to go fishing. Way back in '97 when I was driving around, I remember being struck by how many churches in these smaller Texas towns had "Victory" in their names. There are literally dozens of them in and around Austin. I don't go to church, so this was something I never noticed before because I wasn't paying attention. But after reading the ransom note i became convinced that that last line had religious connotations.
Oh, Bob, Victory absolutely does have religious connotations. I went to church every Sunday, Sunday night, and Wednesday night for prayer meeting when I was a youngster. There is Victory over the devil, Victory over temptation, Victory over sin. The ultimate Victory is Jesus's death on the cross and his subsequent resurrection, which is seen as a Victory over death itself. I still believe that the SBTC is Saved By The Cross, and the "Victory" is the writer's claim to eternity by virtue of being forgiven by God and Victory over the sin of killing JB.
Am thinking the ransom note sign off could also mean Victory (death) - She's bound to Christ (she is in heaven with Jesus) based on the research I have been doing on the religion listed in the Ramsey bios I came across on-line. Since I don't want to offend anyone and make it appear that I might be criticizing a particular religion, I am simply going to provide the links I read through and let those who wish to review them do so and then draw their own conclusions. Here is what I found if anyone is interested: John Ramsey Bio: http://www.nndb.com/people/935/000044803/ Patsy Ramsey bio http://www.nndb.com/people/934/000044802/ Both have Angelican/Episcolpalian listed as religion. Angelican/Episcopalian Articles of Religion: http://anglicansonline.org/basics/thirty-nine_articles.html Angelican/Episcopalian Beliefs and Practices: http://christianity.about.com/od/denominations/a/anglicanepisco.htm Comparison Chart of Christian Denominations' Beliefs and Doctrine http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/charts/denominations_beliefs.htm Concupiscence was a new word for me and I found a lengthy and quite interesting explanation under the following link: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04208a.htm
Why then didn't the investigators deal with this side of things WY, when the word "Victory" does have this strong religious connection? There are so many other reasons why Patsy could have been charged. I'm just puzzled. It doesn't matter what anyone comes up with which points a finger right at Patsy, no arrest was ever made (?).
Well, we don't really know that they didn't consider this, Elle. We don't know a lot of things about this case. My guess is that this didn't get past investigators at all. Proving its meaning is a horse of another color, though, and cops would have known that.