LAST EDITED ON Feb-06-04 AT 03:44 AM (EST)
Sorry, folks, back to the knives …
I came across this in JBTPF
Page 96ST: Patsy, once we were told that Burke, at times, would walk through the house whittling and that was something that apparently got on Linda Hoffman’s nerves somehow, to clean up after him.
PR: Right.
ST: Was this consistent with his little pocketknife?
PR: Yeah.
ST: He’d walk through the house whittling and … (I’m showing Patsy a photo of a little red Swiss army knife.)
PR: Right. He had one we had gotten him in Switzerland, it had his name on it. Does this have his name on it?
ST: I don’t know … I have spoken with Linda, and she’s identified this suitcase as belonging to, well, not necessarily belonging to, but a suitcase that she has used and that John Andrew has used, and that John Andrew likely had left at your house.
Okay, why did ST change the subject to the suitcase as soon as Patsy asked if the knife he was showing her a photo of had Burke’s name on it?? And what did he mean “Linda used” (the suitcase)?
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Previous knife posts:
Page 374 NE book - JBTPF
Another photo of the laundry area outside JonBenét's room also drew puzzled comments from John.
LS: ...That's a photograph of the upstairs laundry room area?
JR: Uh huh.
LS: There is a knife on the counter. What do you recall about that?
JR: Um, nothing. That looks like a kitchen - a knife that would normally be in the kitchen. It's hard to tell. Looks likeit might be a grapefruit knife or something. We normally didn't prepare any food at that counter.
LS: Do you ever recall that knife being there before?
JR: I don't recall, no.
Well, Don, it looks like you didn't just pluck your impression that it was a "grapefruit" knife from out of nowhere.
In the Search Warrant inventories, the only knife I see mentioned is the "red pocket knife with broken ornament (41KKY)". Does that mean this knife, found in the upstairs laundry room area, was not taken?
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Jameson’s post:
One little sidebar here- - Linda Hoffmann-Pugh said she thought the knife was Patsy's, used to peel potatoes. I asked the Ramseys about that and John laughed out loud - - said Patsy's potatoes come out of a box!
I am sure that somewhere in that house they had such a knife - - but no reason for them to take it to the second floor.
An intruder, on the other hand, he might have carried in a knife - - or looked for one while waiting around. He had the stun gun, but a knife might come in handy for a few reasons.
I still wonder if they checked at all to see if any of her hair was cut off - - and where is the missing hair ribbon? Two ponytails, two elastics, only one ribbon - - where is the other one? Does the killer still have it?