JonBenet Ramsey’s Blanket
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Patsy Ramsey Interrogation by Steve Thomas, Tom Trujillo
Also present, Pat Burke, Bryan Morgan, Pete Hoffstrom, Jon Foster
April 30, 1997 - Boulder, Colorado
http://www.acandyrose.com/1997BPD-Patsy-Interview-Complete.htm
TT: Can you describe the blankets again is it, I take it a fairly light weight cotton blanket?
PR: Yeah, kind of a loose weave blanket.
TT: Okay. Okay. What I would like to do is show you a picture of a blanket, it’s got a scale and it’s a white blanket with what you describe as a loose weave and all that. It’s got a scale around the outside is all. Is this, does that kind of look like the blanket, there you go Pat, that was on her bed that night? And again, it’s uh, it’s folded up. Hard, kind of hard to see.
PR: Yeah. Yeah, it was probably, yeah.
TT: Does that look like the kind of blanket that was on her bed.
PR: Um hum.
TT: Or was that the blanket on her bed?
PR: I, it may have been, yeah. I can’t, I mean it sort of looks a little pinkish. It was . . .
TT: And, and that might be . . .
PR: It was white.
TT: . . .that might be the coloring of the picture.
PR: Yeah.
TT: Uh, because the colors are not very good.
PR: Right.
TT: It’s actually an all white blanket.
PR: Is it? Um hum.
TT: The colors are kind of deceiving on that.
PR: Yeah. It, it could have been.
TT: Okay. And um, is it a, she sleeps in a twin bed right?
PR: Right.
TT: Is the blanket a twin bed blanket or is it oversized, um. . .
PR: Um, that was a twin.
TT: It was a twin size blanket also.
PR: Yeah, it was pretty generous twin.
TT: Generous?
PR: Well, it was pretty . . .
TT: It was bigger.
PR: Bigger, uh huh, yeah.
TT: Did it hang down (inaudible) to the floor on each side, but it went down the side of the bed quite a ways?
PR: Yeah.
TT: Okay. Okay. And, uh, Nedra also talked about, and correct me if I’m wrong Steve, did you guys have a similar type of blanket up on your bed?
PR: Uh, I think so.
TT: Only and obviously different size.
PR: Yeah, I think we did.
TT: Okay. Alrighty.
PR: I think we did yeah
John Ramsey Interrogation by Lou Smit and Mike Kane
Present also were Bryan Morgan, PI David Williams
June 23, 24, 25, 1998 - Boulder, Colorado
http://www.acandyrose.com/1998BPD-John-Interview-Complete.htm
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4 LOU SMIT: That's 182. That's just a
5 photograph of a -- What is that photograph of?
6 JOHN RAMSEY: It looks like the blanket
7 on the concrete floor. And that's quite possible.
8 It could have been the white blanket she was
9 wrapped in.
10 LOU SMIT: Where was that blanket on her
11 kept?
12 JOHN RAMSEY: I don't know. Patsy said
13 that it came off her bed.
14 LOU SMIT: Is it something that was on
15 JonBenet's bed?
16 JOHN RAMSEY: Well, according to Patsy,
17 yeah. That was the blanket that was on her bed.
18 No, I just can't tell what that is. I don't know.
19 LOU SMIT: That's on photograph 182?
20 JOHN RAMSEY: Um hmm.
21 LOU SMIT: And you're pointing to a little
22 shiny object?
23 JOHN RAMSEY: Yeah, it looks like -- yeah.
24 These other pictures could have been pictures that
25 Patsy used for examples of things to paint of. She
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1 could answer that. Yeah.
Patsy Ramsey Interrogation by Thomas Haney and Trip DeMuth
Present also were Patrick Burke and Ellis Armistead
June 23, 24, 25, 1998 - Boulder, Colorado
http://www.acandyrose.com/1998BPD-Patsy-Interview-Complete.htm
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16 TOM HANEY: 144.
17 PATSY RAMSEY: That is the little glass
18 block.
19 TOM HANEY: 145.
20 PATSY RAMSEY: What is the pink thing?
21 TOM HANEY: We have next up, we have some
22 close-ups of the two items in 145, which is the white
23 blanket and the paint can. So if we take -- and if we
24 skip to the other numbered one and go to -- there is a
25 black and white dated 11 February of '97, and this is a
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1 photo in, I believe, a plastic container still, would
2 that be the blanket that was on the bed?
3 PATSY RAMSEY: Yeah.
4 TRIP DEMUTH: That is JonBenet's blanket on
5 her bed in her bedroom?
6 PATSY RAMSEY: I could say that, yes.
7 TRIP DEMUTH: Looking at picture 145.
8 PATSY RAMSEY: Okay. What is this pink --
9 what is that?
10 TOM HANEY: We will show you a photo of that
11 in just a second. Just want to get through some of
12 these first of the blanket itself.
13 PATSY RAMSEY: This looks a little --
14 (inaudible).
15 TRIP DEMUTH: This was sent to CES, so every
16 piece of trace evidence that was ever collected by a
17 lab, so all of that is going to be documented. Our
18 main concern is that you believe this is JonBenet's
19 blanket on her bed.
20 PATSY RAMSEY: Yeah.
21 TOM HANEY: This is the pink -- excuse me --
22 the pink item that again is in a plastic bag where the
23 photo was taken.
24 PATSY RAMSEY: That is her (inaudible). Why
25 was that there?
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1 TOM HANEY: What is it?
2 PATSY RAMSEY: It is her Barbie nightgown.
3 TOM HANEY: Is that hers or her Barbie
4 doll's? When would she have worn that last, do you
5 know?
6 PATSY RAMSEY: Well, she didn't wear it that
7 night because she had her -- she had the long underwear
8 pants and her little white shirt. And the night before
9 on Christmas Eve night she wore the pink little
10 (inaudible) that was under her pillow. You saw that.
11 And before that I don't remember. But neither of those
12 two nights she wore that.
13 TOM HANEY: Where would this particular --
14 well, let me back up.
15 Does this item have some particular
16 significance?
17 PATSY RAMSEY: No. No.
18 TOM HANEY: How many nightgowns did she have?
19 PATSY RAMSEY: A lot.
20 TOM HANEY: Twenty, 30?
21 PATSY RAMSEY: Well, 10 or so.
22 TOM HANEY: Did this one have some particular
23 significance?
24 PATSY RAMSEY: No.
25 TOM HANEY: Do you remember who gave it to
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1 her?
2 PATSY RAMSEY: No.
3 TOM HANEY: Do you remember whether you got
4 it for her? Was it a gift.
5 PATSY RAMSEY: Oh, God, it might --
6 TOM HANEY: Take some time because this is --
7 PATSY RAMSEY: Yeah. Is this the only
8 picture we have of this?
9 TOM HANEY: Correct. The only one here
10 today.
11 PATSY RAMSEY: I'm thinking of a Barbie
12 nightgown that had a big face of Barbie.
13 TRIP DEMUTH: It has a plastic over it, so
14 there is some glare there. You see the plastic.
15 PATSY RAMSEY: Yeah; right. What I'm saying,
16 I'm -- I remember a Barbie nightgown with a picture,
17 big picture of the head of Barbie on it. So I am not
18 quite sure this is her -- you know, one that she had.
19 TOM HANEY: Okay. You know, it appears --
20 PATSY RAMSEY: That is a Barbie doll under
21 there.
22 TOM HANEY: It appears from the waist down
23 you can see that much, but from the waist up, because
24 of the plastic, there is a flash and the reflection
25 that is washed out.
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1 PATSY RAMSEY: Yeah. The nightgowns were
2 kept in the bathroom, in her bathroom in the side
3 drawer there. Her pajamas were there.
4 TOM HANEY: All of them?
5 PATSY RAMSEY: Unless they were in the dirty
6 clothes.
7 TOM HANEY: We talked earlier about a few
8 things kind of thrown here or there.
9 PATSY RAMSEY: Right. Could have been, I
10 guess.
11 TOM HANEY: Do you remember her wearing it on
12 the 23rd?
13 PATSY RAMSEY: No.
14 TRIP DEMUTH: Which drawer, looking at photo
15 18?
16 PATSY RAMSEY: These.
17 TRIP DEMUTH: This is her bathroom, her sink.
18 Which drawer would the Barbie doll nightgown have been
19 kept in?
20 PATSY RAMSEY: Probably that one or the one
21 below it.
22 TRIP DEMUTH: The one that is opened or below
23 it right there in photo 18?
24 PATSY RAMSEY: Uh-huh.
25 TRIP DEMUTH: Okay.
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1 TOM HANEY: We've heard at some point this
2 was a particularly favorite nightgown. Did she have
3 such a thing?
4 PATSY RAMSEY: Well, her favorite little
5 pajamas were like -- was this one piece sort of Jeannie
6 thing my mother had given her, kind of nylon; a little
7 one piece thing. You stepped into it and put your arms
8 out. Other than that, nothing special.
9 TRIP DEMUTH: But would your sister, Pam,
10 call this her travel nightgown for any reason? I could
11 be wrong.
12 PATSY RAMSEY: I mean, like pageants did we
13 take one?
14 TRIP DEMUTH: Is there a reason she would say
15 that?
16 PATSY RAMSEY: I just don't remember making a
17 big deal about taking one special nightgown to the
18 pageants. I think more likely we took the little
19 Jeannie pant thing because it would be -- if she had
20 her hair in curlers, you could step into it instead of
21 pulling it over your head. I don't know.
22 TRIP DEMUTH: Do you know where that was
23 before Christmas?
24 PATSY RAMSEY: No.
25 TOM HANEY: It would not have been in the
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1 wine cellar?
2 PATSY RAMSEY: No.
3 TOM HANEY: On the 25th when you put JonBenet
4 to bed, do you recall seeing this?
5 PATSY RAMSEY: No.
6 TOM HANEY: In the bed.
7 PATSY RAMSEY: Huh-uh.
8 TOM HANEY: Do you recall the blanket that is
9 in this previous --
10 PATSY RAMSEY: No, I don't. I don't really.
11 TOM HANEY: When you put her down, covered
12 her up.
13 PATSY RAMSEY: I know I covered her at least
14 with the sheet, but I don't know that. We tend to get
15 real warm, so, you know, you don't do a lot of tucking
16 it in.
17 TOM HANEY: Probably not the comforter?
18 PATSY RAMSEY: No.
19 TOM HANEY: But the cotton blanket, you know,
20 I think those are pretty -- it is kind of like the ones
21 in the hospital.
22 PATSY RAMSEY: They are not real heavy;
23 right.
24 TOM HANEY: So would that --
25 PATSY RAMSEY: Yeah. It would not have been
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1 unusual to put the sheet and the blanket on her. I
2 truly can't remember.
SKIP SECTION
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6 TOM HANEY: No, okay. Could this have been
7 under the pillow? Would you have noticed anything like
8 that?
9 PATSY RAMSEY: Well, I didn't notice the pink
10 shirt under there, you know, so, I just don't remember
11 where that was or the last time she wore it.
12 TOM HANEY: Or where she got it, from whom?
13 PATSY RAMSEY: Can't remember.
14 TOM HANEY: Okay. Say on birthdays the kids
15 get a lot of presents, do you keep a list of who gets
16 them what to make sure they send them a thank-you card
17 or whatever?
18 PATSY RAMSEY: No.
19 TRIP DEMUTH: Do you think that is
20 JonBenet's?
21 PATSY RAMSEY: Well, see, that is the thing.
22 If I could see it for real I would know.
23 TRIP DEMUTH: You are not sure at this time?
24 PATSY RAMSEY: I'm not really sure, no. The
25 one I'm thinking of had a big picture of Barbie on it,
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1 a face, a big face.
2 TRIP DEMUTH: Okay.
3 PATSY RAMSEY: But she had a lot of them, so
4 you know, I just -- I just can't. If I could see it
5 for real, you know, I could touch it and touch it, but
6 look at it up close I might be able to.
7 Regardless, it is totally out of place down
8 there in the wine cellar.
9 TOM HANEY: The last time you were in the
10 wine cellar was Christmas Eve, Christmas day.
11 PATSY RAMSEY: Probably Christmas Eve
12 bringing packages out.
13 TOM HANEY: Would there have been any reason
14 for you to go back in there on Christmas day or did you
15 go back in there?
16 PATSY RAMSEY: No, I don't believe I did.
17 No.
18 TOM HANEY: Okay. And on Christmas Eve, when
19 you went in there --
20 PATSY RAMSEY: No.
21 TOM HANEY: -- this wasn't there?
22 PATSY RAMSEY: No.
23 TOM HANEY: How about the blanket?
24 PATSY RAMSEY: No.
25 TRIP DEMUTH: If we could go back, kind of
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1 skipped over a couple of pictures here, 145.
2 PATSY RAMSEY: There is the bicycle.
SKIP SECTION
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3 TRIP DEMUTH: Okay. 400 we've looked at
4 before, a different angle.
5 PATSY RAMSEY: Right. That is down in the
6 basement. It is like cotton or something.
7 TRIP DEMUTH: Do you know what that is?
8 PATSY RAMSEY: I don't know why cotton would
9 be there.
10 TRIP DEMUTH: You don't recognize it?
11 PATSY RAMSEY: No.
12 TRIP DEMUTH: It doesn't mean anything to
13 you?
14 PATSY RAMSEY: No.
15 TRIP DEMUTH: Okay. Tom.
16 TOM HANEY: Do you ever remember seeing it in
17 there?
18 PATSY RAMSEY: No.
19 TOM HANEY: Could it have come off of
20 something?
21 PATSY RAMSEY: It could have come off -- well
22 the Christmas tree is in there, but I don't know if
23 they had cotton on them.
24 TOM HANEY: Did you use any kind of cotton
25 batting like, or it appears to be a fairly big piece,
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1 not a real small piece like an Aspirin bottle.
2 PATSY RAMSEY: Yeah. I don't know. I can't
3 think of.
4 TOM HANEY: Anywhere, any decorating or
5 crafts or --
6 PATSY RAMSEY: I can't think of any.
7 TRIP DEMUTH: Did you have any Santa suits?
8 PATSY RAMSEY: I had Santas. I did have a
9 Santa suit. I stuffed the Santa sometimes.
10 TRIP DEMUTH: Okay. Where was that?
11 PATSY RAMSEY: That should have been back in
12 the Christmas room back, you know, in the shower back
13 in there.
14 TRIP DEMUTH: If you walked past the laundry
15 room, the shower to the storage room is at the end of
16 that hallway, the room it would be in.
17 PATSY RAMSEY: Right there would be kind of a
18 beard, but I don't know it was made out of cotton. It
19 was kind of more like synthetic.
20 TRIP DEMUTH: That was -- the Santa suit was
21 never in the window sill.
22 PATSY RAMSEY: Not to my knowledge.
The Bonita Papers – 1999
http://www.acandyrose.com/1999-BonitaPapers.htm
2004-01-14: The Bonita Papers-1999 (Blanket in Cellar)
From a poster known as "Spade" on the www.forumsforjustice.org forum posted information regarding a person known as "Bonita." Spade wrote: "These are the unedited "notes" of Bonita Sauer, secretary/para-legal to Dan Hoffman. Bonita intended to write a book from the case documents provided to her boss. But Bonita's notes were sold to the tabs by her nephew. Larry Pozner is a partner in the same law firm. I hope he reads his secretary's notes about this case before he runs his mouth about the Ramsey's. (Again) This is a long file, so I suggest copying to your own computer and printing it out. I have checked the important case info and find it accurate, however there is some BS. Please post your questions." On another postings, Spade wrote, "Bonita is the 1st name of the legal secretary who wrote up the Boulder Police reports, mailed them to her nephew in Oregon who in turn double-dealt them to two tabs for $70,000. Bonita had access to all the BPD reports. Keep in mind that Bonita wrote-up her info in 1999"
"Inside the room, investigators found the white blanket that John said had been wrapped around JonBenet, and the piece of black duct tape which had covered her mouth. .They also found bundled inside the blanket a child's pink Burble nightgown. A red Swiss army knife was also found lying in the corner of the room away from the blanket. On the floor outside the door to the cellar was a paint tray and acrylic painting supplies. One of the detectives observed a wooden handle to a paint brush, the type used by artists, which appeared to be broken and a piece missing. The floor of the wine cellar was vacuumed to collect any trace evidence. The black duct tape, blanket, nightgown, knife, broken paint brush and paint tray, and vacuumed particles were all collected and logged into evidence."
"After the physical evidence had been collected at the autopsy and from the search of the residence, the next step was testing by the Colorado Bureau of Investigations. Blood had been found on the long-sleeved white top and the "Wednesday" underwear worn by JonBenet, the blanket and nightgown found in the wine cellar, and the duct tape found in the cellar which John reported to have removed from JonBenet's mouth. CBI Agent Kathren Dressel, a DNA and serological testing expert with 25 years of experience, performed the DNA testing on these items and positively matched the blood to JonBenet."
"The white blanket found with JonBenet’s body and the swabs of substances recovered during the autopsy were examined for semen. Serological studies did not find the presence of semen on any of these items. However, two hairs were recovered from the blanket. One of the hairs, identified as a Caucasian pubic hair, did not match samples from John, Patsy or John Andrew. A second hair, was also identified as human head hair several inches long, Was also examined but no conclusions were reached as to the source."