Q. Did it strike you as odd that the Boulder Police Department never made a request to the Ramsey
family to obtain the articles of clothing that they wore on the 25th of December for almost a year?

MR. DIAMOND: Are you representing that is the case?

Q. (BY MR. WOOD) I think Mr. Thomas knows that is absolutely the case, don't you?

A. Which question?

Q. That the one that I -- well, the Boulder Police Department didn't ask John and Patsy Ramsey for
the articles of clothing they had worn on the 25th of December, 1996 until almost a year later, true?

A. For a long time, that was a mistake, yes.

Q. Didn't that strike you as odd?

A. That the police did that?

Q. You and the police, you were part of the case?

A. Yes.

Q. Why did you do it?

A. Why did I do what?

Q. Why didn't you ask the Ramseys to give you the articles of clothing they wore?

A. In hindsight, that was important.

Q. You had already concluded that Patsy Ramsey committed the crime before you even asked for
the clothes that she had worn, true?

A. Those should have been collected the first day and they weren't.

Q. You had already concluded that Patsy Ramsey had committed the crime before you even asked
the Ramseys for the clothes they had worn that night, true?

A. It was my belief that that evidence that I'm talking about led to Patsy Ramsey. So yes, she was
the best suspect before we wound up collecting their clothes.

Q. I'm not asking you about who is the best. I'm talking about you, Steve Thomas, a lead detective
had concluded that Patsy Ramsey had killed her daughter, JonBenet, months before you or the Boulder
Police Department even asked for the clothes that she and her husband were wearing that night; is that
true?

MR. DIAMOND: Asked and answered.You can answer.

Q. (BY MR. WOOD) Can I get an answer and then we can move on. Am I correct, sir?

A. That's my belief that she was involved.

Q. And the timing is correct, right?

A. Prior to the retrieval of the clothing, yes.

Q. All right. Thank you. It seems like it was a pretty simple question.

MR. DIAMOND: You wanted to put your words in his mouth and he didn't want to swallow them,
which is his right.

MR. WOOD: Well, the truth then one can surmise why one has difficulty swallowing the truth.

Q. (BY MR. WOOD) Sir, let me ask you --

MR. DIAMOND: That's a hot-headed remark.

MR. WOOD: What?

MR. DIAMOND: That's a hot-headed remark.

MR. WOOD: Well, I don't think it's any more hot headed than your comment made about swallowing
the truth and making -- and taking my words?

MR. DIAMOND: Try swallowing the truth.

MR. WOOD: Your comment, sir, you're the one that got into the swallowing. So, you know, if you
stay away from there, I don't need to go there.