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	A Personal view of the Internet Subculture Surrounding the JonBenet Ramsey Murder case

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Boulder's 11th Annual
"Historic Homes for the Holidays Tour"

Began December 3, 1994

Also 1994 "A Colorado Christmas at the Ramsey's" Video

The Historic Homes house tour organizers and tour guides had registration and sign up for the 1500 to 2000 people set up on a table in the basement of the Ramsey house in 1994

CHAIN OF EVENTS 1994

1994-11-29: Boulder Historical Tour

The Denver Post
November 29, 1994

[snip]

BOULDER

Historic Boulder's 11th annual Historic Homes for the Holidays Tour starts Saturday. Seven homes in the University Hill neighborhood will be featured. Once a cow pasture on an isolated hill above Boulder, development began here in the 1890s, with lots selling for $ 9.22 each. Today, the neighborhood features a variety of architectural styles and mature trees.

Three of the homes were designed by Boulder's first architect and master-builder, Glen Huntington. The earliest is a finely crafted Tudor Revival at 715 12th St., built in 1923, with cathedral ceilings in the living and dining rooms. Owner Emily Lowrance calls her place "a Christmas house" because she used shades of red and green.

Huntington's 1930 design is a Jacobean/Elizabethan residence at 1500 Baseline Road, with steeply pitched roofline, gables with half-timbering, and a spacious living room.

The last of this group, a Colonial Revival, was built in 1940 at 701 Seventh St., with gabled dormers and paneled windows. A large addition was built by Cindy and Charles Jones, the owners for 12 years.

A 1927 Tudor house at 755 15th St. is being restored to its original elegance by Patsy and John Ramsey, who also are opening it to light and air. A spacious master suite with dormers has gone into the unused attic, and a sun porch became a dining room.

A 1931 Jacobean/Elizabethan home at 1427 Cascade Ave. is enlivened with mementos from the career and travels of former U.S. State Department diplomat Robert Goold and his wife Libby. A sturdy Foursquare home at 845 12th St. was built in 1908, and has recently been given a window-filled addition by new owners Arnold Jacobson and Victoria Johns.

The 1935 Colonial Revival at 770 12th St. also has been given an addition - a large sun room and master bath by owners Carol Francipane and Donald Lococo. They also modernized the kitchen from the studs out.

December 1994 "A Colorado Christmas at the Ramsey's" Video
Screen Captures from Peter Boyles Web Site 1998

[Screen Capture from Ramsey's 1994 Colorado Christmas Video that appeared on the Peter Boyles website in 1998]

December 1994 "A Colorado Christmas at the Ramsey's" Video
Screen Captures from "JonBenet's America" August 5, 1998

[Screen Capture from 'JonBenet's America' August 5, 1998]

CHAIN OF EVENTS 1996

1996-04-00: Woman�s Magazine - April 1996, PROFILE: Patsy Ramsey,
by Deborah Rosenberger

"In light of all of Ramsey's family obligations, chosen responsibilities and devoted energy on her volunteer work, she admits that there are other interests that she hasn't found time to pursue. "I'd love to find the time to paint," she says. "Somehow I always think I'll get to it during the summer when we're in our cottage in Michigan. But it hasn't happened -yet!"

The Ramsey family summer house may not yet be home to Ramsey artistry, but it is home to countless other activities for the Ramseys and their children. It's the most wonderful spot on earth, " says Ramsey. Obviously, other people in the small town of Charlevoix (MI) agree; this July, the house will be part of the local tour of homes, a benefit fund raiser for the local area hospital.

Ramsey is no stranger to home tours. Her Boulder home was part of the Historic Boulder Holiday Home Tour in December, 1994. "That was the first Christmas after my chemotherapy treatments, " recalls Ramsey. "I was still wearing my wig when the guests arrived. It was really good therapy to be decorating and getting ready for the tour, to get back into fun things again. You'd never know that 2000 people came through the house in two days! I began to give something back to the community after being given a second chance at life."

CHAIN OF EVENTS 1997

1997-04-30: John Ramsey Interrogation by Steve Thomas, Tom Trujillo

John Ramsey Interrogation by Steve Thomas, Tom Trujillo
Also present, Pat Burke, Bryan Morgan, Pete Hoffstrom, Jon Foster
April 30, 1997 - Boulder, Colorado
http://www.jonbenetindexguide.com/1997BPD-John-Interview-Complete.htm

(SNIP)

TT: OK. Again, Patsy came up with a couple of people, specifically like a list of the construction people that have been in your home since . . .

JR: there�s been catering people in there, I mean that, unfortunately, there�s been a lot of people in our home. We had a home tour a few years ago.

TT: OK. One of the things we asked Patsy for was a list of the contractors that�s been back in the house since the end of December, to replace the carpet, clean up the mess we made. We want those kind of things.

(SNIP)

1997-04-30: Patsy Ramsey Interrogation by Steve Thomas, Tom Trujillo

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.jonbenetindexguide.com/1997BPD-Patsy-Interview-Complete.htm

(SNIP)

ST: As is so often the case in this case you hear so many things that you try to attribute back to a source that�s sometimes, but prior to the 25th was there any persons that came to your home unsolicited uh, that were invited in, not guests on the 23rd to the Christmas party, but in particular uh, wee there any women who asked to view or tour the home . . .

PR: Oh, yeah there, uh two older ladies, now I don�t know what day this was, but two older ladies stopped by. They were talking and uh, I, I think I was out, I don�t know why I was outside, but they stopped and I can�t remember why I invited them in. I think one, one of them said that she had been there on the home tour when the, when the Christmas home tour a couple of years before and I said something about I had the Christmas trees up or something and would you like to come in and they came in. Two, two ladies, old ladies.

ST: Uh, when you say older can you approximate an age for me?

PR: Sixty, seventy.

ST: Did they impress you as if they were neighborhood residents out walking?

PR: Yeah, I think they said they lived over on the other side of Baseline or one of them did or

ST: And were they fairly innocuous and harmless in your estimation.

PR: Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah.

ST: Did you give them a tour of the home?

PR: Yeah, I think I did.

(SNIP)

ST: Patsy, is that bathroom in the basement typically used, infrequently used?

PR: Infrequently.

ST: Who uses that?

PR: I, when we had the home tour, that Christmas tour a couple of years ago, I cleaned it up and let the volunteers use that. They kind of made a little office down in the basement. You know, there were a lot of, all those volunteers would have been in that basement. Talking about who would have known about that cellar room.

TT: What part of the basement did they have their office down there?

PR: Well, I just had a little card table set up, and there were, is this ok to skip back to when we were talking about?

TT: Sure.

PR: You know, they had to like register, sign in. There was going to be a tour guide, that sort of thing. So a lot of people would have been down in that basement. I know it was couple of years ago, but you, I didn�t even go back down at all with them, they could have wondered back down there.

TT: OK. Now is there a sign-in list some place, who ran the sign I list.

PR: Jane Cronick was the, like the house chairman or something like that. And I bet she would have a list of those people.

TT: OK. Betty Cronick?

PR: But, I don�t know if they still kept it, but if anybody would, Mrs. (inaudible) might. I�m sorry (inaudible) what were we talking about? Oh a thought just occurred to me, it would have been a lot more people down there.

ST: I�m bouncing around on the page with you, but again, that might be a list that we�d certainly like to look at, along with a number of other things, as I hope we continue to work together on this thing. That includes a list of who was in that basement and might be able to (inaudible).

(SNIP)

1997-09-16: Vanity Fair �Who Killed JonBenet?� by Ann Louise Bardach

"In Nov. 1991, the Ramseys purchased a 6,800-square foot Tudor style house in one of Boulder's choice neighborhoods for about $500,000. Over the next two years, Patsy remodeled and decorated her new home, spending, according to Jim Marino, $700,000. She was thrilled to have the house listed on the Boulder Christmas tour, as well as on the home tour. Visitors recall her greeting them at the door with JonBenet and Burke by her side, all of them in matching sweaters. Featured in JonBenet's room were her trophies, sashes, and medals. One visitor said that in the huge master-bedroom suite Patsy's Miss West Virginia dress and her Miss America competition sash were laid out on the bed."

CHAIN OF EVENTS 1998

1998-06-23: John Ramsey Interrogation by Lou Smit and Mike Kane
(Screen Capture from "CBS 48 Hours Investigates - Searching for a Killer" 10/04/2002)

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.jonbenetindexguide.com/1998BPD-John-Interview-Complete.htm

June 1998 John Ramsey Interrogation by Lou Smit and Mike Kane (1994 Boulder Historical Tour)

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23 LOU SMIT: Just a quick question while you're
24 on that photograph, and let's show it for the
25 camera here. This shows Patsy and then the

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1 children making gingerbread houses. I notice in
2 the report that for the past years you had always
3 bought gingerbread houses. And it seems like they
4 were always a part of your Christmas festivities?
5 JOHN RAMSEY: Well Patsy had one or two
6 made one year. She did an open house for the
7 Historical Society. We were always part of the
8 historical homes tour where they raise money for
9 the Boulder Historical Society, and our house --
10 we opened our house for that. And she had this
11 really elaborate gingerbread house made by bob
12 Wallace, who did some handy work for her. And that
13 sat on our kitchen that year. I think we actually
14 (INAUDIBLE) to use.
15 But then we put it in a plastic bag, and it was
16 real elaborate. And so I think it got reused a
17 year or two before it finally gave up. But I think
18 this is the first year she had had the kids
19 decorate gingerbread houses. And so they were
20 there, but I think it was.
21 LOU SMIT: Sometimes I'm going to be very
22 spontaneous. Bob Wallace, what kind of work did he
23 do for you?
24 JOHN RAMSEY: I think the first time he
25 worked for us he cleaned all the windows. We had

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1 just finished our addition the third floor.
2 LOU SMIT: When would that have been?
3 JOHN RAMSEY: '94 maybe; 1994 or '93,'94,
4 somewhere in that timeframe. He was kind of our
5 handyman. Patsy had him help her decorate for
6 Christmas several years. I don't know if he made
7 the gingerbread house or he had one of his friends
8 make it. I assumed he had the house made.
9 He did occasional handyman work, but mostly I
10 think it was decorating around Christmas time.
11 Because Patsy always decorated the house.
12 LOU SMIT: In '96 did he do that?
13 JOHN RAMSEY: No, I don't remember specifically
14 if he did. Probably not. You see, we were leaving
15 town the next morning after Christmas. So I don't
16 recall. We weren't going to have a Christmas
17 party, so I don't think Patsy did a whole lot of
18 decorating. So I don't recall if he did.
19 (INAUDIBLE)
20 LOU SMIT: Did he have a friend that would
21 come with him occasionally?
22 JOHN RAMSEY: (INAUDIBLE)
23 LOU SMIT: And I've never been able to
24 locate
25 that friend's name.

0069
1 JOHN RAMSEY: I think that he was the guy
2 that
3 did the gingerbread house. I don't know his name.
4 I don't think I ever did know his name.
5 UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: (INAUDIBLE). Robert
6 or Rubio?
7 JOHN RAMSEY: Doesn't ring a bell. I don't
8 know if I ever knew his name. Or if I did, I don't
9 quite remember.

(SNIP)

June 1998 John Ramsey Interrogation by Lou Smit and Mike Kane (1994 Boulder Historical Tour)

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25 LOU SMIT: When was the painting done?

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1 JOHN RAMSEY: Oh, it was finished just before
2 that Boulder Home Tour, the Historic Home Tour,
3 which I think was in '94. And the painting went on
4 for years. Dominic thought the painter was -- well
5 she thought he was --
6 LOU SMIT: And who was the painter?
7 JOHN RAMSEY: Jay Pedopiece. The reason
8 I remember is, when it was over with, he went into
9 the house just to finish up some last little
10 touches. We were going to be out of town. Patsy
11 told him please close the windows when you leave.
12 And he left the windows open in my bedroom and
13 bathroom. The wind blew hard, blew open the
14 shutters which turned on the faucet and flooded
15 the whole house. About two weeks before this home
16 tour. (INAUDIBLE) coming out the garage doors and
17 I said, (What in the world is that. (INAUDIBLE).
18 So Patsy went crazy trying to put that back
19 together in two weeks.

(SNIP)

0373
1 MIKE KANE: Were there additions on there
2 at the time you bought the house?
3 JOHN RAMSEY: That was on.
4 MIKE KANE: It just hadn't been finished?
5 JOHN RAMSEY: Well, that part of it was
6 actually okay. What hadn't been finished was the
7 third floor bedroom area. It was finished but it
8 wasn't done very well.
9 They kind of gutted the second floor, the old part
10 of the second floor and made one big room. And we
11 wanted bedrooms there. They had elevator shafts
12 right through the middle of the house. It was just
13 put in the worst spot because it tore up the every
14 floor it went through. And that had to go.
15 So it was just really, it was an older couple and
16 she had a bad leg, and they put the elevator so
17 that she could get up and down. It was made for
18 them and nobody else. And we tore it out once we
19 bought it.
20 MIKE KANE: When did you start remodeling
21 that?
22 JOHN RAMSEY: Probably shortly after we
23 bought it. And it went on for quite two or three
24 years in bits and pieces. We had it totally
25 finished before this Historic Home Tour, which I

0374
1 think was in '94.
2 One of the reasons I wanted to be in the Historic
3 Home Tour was so we'd get it finished. And we'd
4 draw a line in the sand and say, it's done. I
5 remember that.

(SNIP)

1998-06-23: Patsy Ramsey Interview (Thomas Haney, Trip DeMuth)
(Screen Capture from "CBS 48 Hours - Searching for a Killer" 10/04/2002)

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.jonbenetindexguide.com/1998BPD-Patsy-Interview-Complete.htm

June 1998 Patsy Ramsey Interrogation by Thomas Haney and Trip DeMuth (1994 Boulder Historical Tour)

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6 THOMAS HANEY: You had some fliers
7 or brochures made out to the home tour. Were
8 they kept in one or more places?
9 PATSY RAMSEY: Most of them, I
10 believe, were in a little basket in the very
11 front foyer.
12 THOMAS HANEY: By the front door?
13 PATSY RAMSEY: (Nodding).

(SNIP)

0180
12 TRIP DeMUTH: How many were there
13 in, I mean, a couple, a few, a lot?
14 PATSY RAMSEY: I have no idea. 50.
15 TRIP DeMUTH: Why did you have them
16 there?
17 PATSY RAMSEY: I had had them there
18 from the year before for the Christmas tour. Or
19 two years before. (INAUDIBLE.)

(SNIP)

0181
13 TRIP DeMUTH: One more question on
14 those fliers. What information was in the
15 fliers?
16 PATSY RAMSEY: Oh, it was like a
17 house history, you know, when they used to tour
18 through, that Boulder Home Tour, it's a new
19 building, when, and kind of description of the
20 railings or very special features.
21 TRIP DeMUTH: Was it biographical
22 information about your family?
23 PATSY RAMSEY: It might have said
24 like, you know, daughter JonBenet's bedroom and
25 decorating and pink and blah, blah, blah,

0182
1 something like that. College son, John Andrew,
2 da-de-da-de-da, something like that.
3 TRIP DeMUTH: All right.

(SNIP)

0353
19 TRIP DEMUTH: Was there some time that you
20 had the basement painted?
21 PATSY RAMSEY: Yeah.
22 TRIP DEMUTH: When was that?
23 PATSY RAMSEY: That was before the home tour.
24 That would have been like the fall of '94, we had it
25 painted and the carpet laid down there. And then some

June 1998 Patsy Ramsey Interrogation by Thomas Haney and Trip DeMuth (1994 Boulder Historical Tour)

0354
1 time later, oh, maybe like the spring of 1995 or
2 something, we had a real bad water leak in the closet
3 back down there and the carpet had to be pulled up and
4 all of that, and the workman were down there.

(SNIP)

0407
15 TRIP DEMUTH: Look at all those pictures,
16 242, 43 and 44 and 45 together.
17 PATSY RAMSEY: This is the little bathroom in
18 the basement.
19 TOM HANEY: Anything out of place or unusual
20 in those photos?
21 PATSY RAMSEY: Well, the bathroom we hadn't
22 utilized very much. These little Christmas decorations
23 were left over from -- I had put those there when we
24 had the home tour two years earlier, because the
25 volunteers used this area and I had a bathroom

0408
1 available.

(SNIP)

0409
1 TRIP DEMUTH: Pointing to 205.
2 PATSY RAMSEY: Right.
3 TOM HANEY: Do you recall seeing anything
4 like that there before seeing that?
5 PATSY RAMSEY: No, because I had that whole
6 downstairs painted, I mean cleaned.
7 TRIP DEMUTH: When was that?
8 PATSY RAMSEY: Well, 1994, before that home
9 tour, Christmas home tour.
10 TRIP DEMUTH: Who used that bathroom?
11 PATSY RAMSEY: The boys. You know, Burke and
12 Evan were down there playing with the trains. They
13 would go in there and use it.

(SNIP)

1998-07-21: Peter Boyles Radio Show 630KHOW

Peter Boyles Radio Show - July 21, 1998
Linda Wilcox Interview

PETER BOYLES: "How would people know that you're legitimate in terms of what you are telling us?"

LINDA WILCOX: "I have been interviewed by the Boulder Police, they know who I am. My name also appears on the tour guide for the tour of homes put out by the Boulder Historical Society during the Christmas of '94, under honorable mention, my name is there. Otherwise, you don't."

(SNIP)

1998-08-05 "JonBenet's America" Documentary August 5, 1998 KUSA-Channel 9 Denver - Produced by Michael Tracey and David Mills

Narrator: "Patsy Ramsey says she has similar regrets. She was always inviting people to her home. She made this video and even held an open house for the Boulder Historical Society."

Patsy Ramsey: "And we had probably from 1500 to 2000 people come through our home in 2 days. But in retrospect I thought, you know, that was just an open invitation to a murder. I mean, if somebody was trying to scoop out your house, find out whose bedrooms were where, I mean there were a lot of people."

CHAIN OF EVENTS 1999

1999-02-18: "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, JonBenet and the City of Boulder"
Written by Lawrence Schiller, February 18, 1999

PMPT Page 247

"After the house was finished, she opened it up to visitors for Boulder's annual Christmas Tour of Homes. They let anybody view any room, even the bedrooms and bathrooms. They showed people their closets. My husband, Robert, who was now their family and estate attorney, warned them, "Close off your private rooms. Keep your guests on the first floor." They didn't.

Patsy wanted to make a statement. There were extravagantly decorated Christmas trees in almost every room. Everything she does is Texas-size. Patsy is most comfortable in opulence. She wants the best of the best. But that isn't a Boulder thing. Most people in the community were shocked. [Judith Phillips]"

1999-11-02: Webbsleuths Forum (http://www.webbsleuths.org)
"Q&A with Pam Paugh 2"

9 . "LOTS of answers "
Posted by jameson on Nov-02-99 at 03:04 PM (EST)
LAST EDITED ON Nov-02-99 AT 09:59 PM (EST)
LAST EDITED ON Nov-02-99 AT 09:33 PM (EST)

"*When did the Ramsey's participate in the local historical group's open tour of homes? Was JonBenet at the home when it was open? Did a lot of people go thru?"

The organizing committee could give you these specifics:

JonBenet was not at home....the entire familys of the tour homes were moved to hotel accommodations during the tour days.

I am told that people bought tickets two and three times to see the house.

Interestingly: that same Christmas, while I was working for Chanel, a man approached me one day who was wearing a COLORADO sweatshirt. We talked and it came to pass that he inquired about the tour of homes and the beautiful little girl in the portrait at the Ramseys....

The police didn't find that odd at all....

CHAIN OF EVENTS 2000

2000-02-00: "Afternoon with Judith Phillips, Photographer", Interviewed by Mary Mcardle Suma (Mame)
Transcript provided by Starry assisted by Sassey, Canadiana & Shaggy

Judith Phillips: yes she's on the board of this and she's on the board of that. Then once I discovered she was getting JonBen�t into the pageant system.

Mame: Now tell me about that. Was that a shock?

Judith Phillips: Oh absolutely.

Mame: In Boulder I can't imagine

Judith Phillips: Boulder, yes in Boulder of course it would be very much a shock. It was a shock to me because.

Mame: had she ever said anything to you? Pryor?

Judith Phillips: No never, never never never mentioned anything not even remotely anything that I can try to remember. She even told me that when JonBen�t was younger that was the direction.

Mame: Tell me how you found out? Did she tell you or did you hear it.

Judith Phillips: It was done in an indirect way I don't think that was something that Patsy would disclose publicly to me because she knew me well enough to know, that would be something that I would not approve of so why mention it to me. But when I went to her home to sell her some photographs. They were having the open house for the Christmas Tour of Homes she looked at some of my slides of the Flatiron sand other pictures. She was interested in buying some so I went there with some of these photographs ready for her to see. I went up to the second floor and Nedra showed me JonBen�t's little pink cowboy outfit

Mame: And was that your first?

Judith Phillips: That was my first clue.

2000-03-18: �Death of Innocence� written by John and Patsy Ramsey

DOI Page 92

"In 1994, shortly after we had remodeled our Boulder home, the Boulder Historical Society asked if John and I would be willing to open our house at

DOI Page 93

"Christmas for the public tours they put on to raise money. Each year the nonprofit society alternated between houses on Mapleton Hill and University Hill for their fund raising tour. Usually a dozen or so homes would be open for display during the days of Advent. Because I always went to such great lengths decorating for the holidays, I felt that being part of the Christmas tour would be great fun."

(SNIP)

"In anticipation of the tour, I decorated each of our bedrooms with a small tree that reflected the personality of its occupant. Burke's tree had an airplane theme, with Santa flying through the air, as well as lots of other little airplanes diving down through the branches. John Andrew's tree reflected a western theme with cowboy hats, saddles, bandanna bows, and ornaments to mirror his life as a "cowboy" student at the University of Colorado. In Melinda's bedroom, I put up a three foot tree festooned with paper dolls and pink and white Victorian lace. JonBenet helped me decorate the full size angel tree in her room with items we had picked up in our travels and ornaments from her baby years, like her pink tennis shoes. She had one special glass angel that she hung on her tree because it reminded her of Beth.

Down in the kitchen, I had about a dozen birdhouses displayed year around as decorations a top our cabinets. So on a corner of the kitchen counter, I placed a three foot tree filled with bird nests and ornaments made out of birdseed. Upstairs in the children's play room, I decorated a whimsical eight foot tree with nursery rhyme characters, teddy bears, and Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse ornaments. Finally, our master bedroom had a full size artificial tree glistening with gold, silver, and crystal ornaments. In addition to the garland of pearls and white pearl lights, I hung hand blown glass I'd brought with me from West Virginia."

(SNIP)

DOI Page 94

"All the extra decorations made our house look like something out of Disney World. Patsy's theory was that if people were going to pay to go through our home, it should be a memorable experience. We were decked out well beyond what was normal for us.

I knew the historical society would send over tour guides to show people through the house and explain its historical significance, which wasn't very noteworthy, except that it was one of the older house in Boulder. My assignment as the man of the house was simply to stay out of the way. In fact it was really to stay out of the house.

Most of the homes on the tour had been built in the early 1900s. The art deco mantel in our living room had been added much later, and we had replaced it with a limestone mantel that better suited the character of the house. Above the mantel hung a European painting from the late 1800s, but that's about all the history there was to talk about. I couldn't imagine what the tour guides would find to say about our home; it was mostly just decked out for Christmas."

(SNIP)

DOI Page 95

"The weekend of the tour provided beautiful sunny weather and, consequently about two thousand people bought tickets. Could one of these people who went through our home have been the murderer? Experts have told us that the killer was familiar with our house. We may never know. Looking back, I only remember the joy and wonder of the Christmas holiday we had that year."

(SNIP)

DOI Page 366

"Many people have speculated that the killer was familiar with the house. Our home had been open to the public a number of times for various charity events and parties. Around two thousand visitors had streamed through our house during the Christmas 1994 Historic Boulder Homes Tour. It would not have been difficult for the future killer to roam through our place as part of one of those groups, even sneaking downstairs for a look at the basement area or upstairs to find JonBenet's room."

2000-04-11: �JonBenet, Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation�
by Steve Thomas and Don Davis, April 11, 2000

ST Page 66

"I wondered just how many people had been through this house: home tours, social guests, church events, parties, construction workers, domestic help, friends, family, crowds of visitors during an open house tour the previous Christmas. Thousands. Fingerprints galore. How would we possibly identify them all?"

(SNIP)

ST Page 83

"The Boulder house was on the Tour of Homes for that year. Starting in September, a procession of fourteen maids scrubbed the huge house, and decorators were given a free hand and an open checkbook. A sash wrapped every doorway. The basement was converted into a bustling headquarters for the guides and servers as some two thousand people visited. Ten volunteers manned the house every hour. Patsy's pageant gown was carefully arranged on her bed with the tiara displayed on black velvet in the huge closet amid feathers and ball gowns and hats. It took four days to remove, wrap, and store all the decorations and left a maze of finger and footprints for our crime scene technicians to examine after the murder."

(SNIP)

ST Page 150

"Actually, the detectives would have loved to have found some stranger whom we could wrap in a tight cloak of evidence, for there is no joy in looking at a parent for murder. We found no such person out there, although a recent letter from the Ramsey private investigator supplied a multitude of new "suspects" who had had "frequent and recent access" to the house-hundreds of unnamed guests at Christmas parties, nannies, friends, neighbors, people from the Historic Boulder tour, a battalion of cleaning women, street musicians, caterers, florists, friends, contractors, window cleaners, plumbers, and videotaping crews."

(SNIP)

ST Page 289

"Lou Smit totally disagreed with my version of the events that night, insisting that the Ramseys were innocent. In his intruder theory, the killer had seen JonBenet during one of her public appearances, perhaps the Christmas parade, and decided to go after her on Christmas night while the Ramsey family was out for the evening.

The pedophile intruder came in through the window-well grate and basement window, then spent quite some time roaming around the big house and learning the layout. He found a Home Tour brochure and learned more about the family. It was also during that period, while he was alone, that he came across the Sharpie pen in the cup and Patsy's writing tablet and wrote the ransom note. Then he hid, and waited."

CHAIN OF EVENTS 2006

2006-08-28: Forums For Justice
on thread titled, "The White Pineapple Bowl"

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"Quote: Originally Posted by koldkase The gingerbread houses themselves were delivered to the home from a bakery, were they not?

I seem to remember that either Santa brought them over...maybe he didn't have on his costume and had to come up with an excuse when the kids saw him?

Or maybe it was one of the sons of McReynolds, who worked at the bakery?

Sorry, I might be wrong about all of this and have to run."

That was the story from 1994, when McReynolds brought the house over. There is a picture of JonBenet with that gingerbread house on the kitchen counter, with a couple of Lion King dolls nearby that especially date the picture since Lion King came out that year. In the picture, you can even see the sleeve of Patsy's red-striped bathrobe she wore in the family's 1994 personal Christmas video.

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