Many paint brushes are made with animal hair, including beaver. Did anyone bother to see if the other brushes she had were made with animal hair?

>Sorry to get back to you so late - it has been a rough
>month.
>
>You wrote on Lou Smit's page, "The fiber evidence sure tends
>to point to the parents. I am awaiting the final DNA
>results, however, before stating my opinion."
>
>I am confused - - what fiber evidence?
>
>There are fibers that may be from Patsy's jacket on the tape
>- - but those fibers were in the paint tote and could have
>been transferred to the tape by the killer - he had gone
>into the paint tote for a paintbrush. And both John and
>Fleet had comforted Patsy that morning and then they both
>touched the tape - - they could have carried the fibers to
>the tape.
>
>What is more important in my mind are the fibers on the tape
>that were not sourced. There were colored fibers, a beaver
>hair, and specifically some light brown fibers that seem to
>be from a cheap pair of cotton gloves - - gloves that remain
>missing.
>
>Maybe someone knows who the killer is and knows where those
>gloves are. Would be nice if they got those gloves and
>turned them in to the new investigators.
>
>
>As for other fibers - - the dark ones on the genitals - - no
>lab report verifies that claim that the fibers are from
>John's sweater. No report that I know of.
>
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>
>IF someone thinks they know where those gloves are - or the
>source of the dark blue fibers - PLEASE gather them up
>carefully - put them in a brown paper bag and staple that
>bag shut - send to investigators. To pick up the item, use
>clean tweezers or tongs or put your own hand in a clean
>plastic bag so you don't contaminate the evidence.