Q. Look at page 25 of your book for me if you would, please, Mr. Thomas. Right here (indicating)
kind of give you a visual.

MR. DIAMOND: Do you see that, Darnay?

Q. (BY MR. WOOD) "In the sun room Patsy Ramsey examined a second-generation photocopy of
the ransom note, a smeary version that showed little more than the dark printed words. Rather than
commenting on the words and contents, she told one of her friends that the note was written on the
same kind of paper she had in her kitchen." Have I read that correctly?

A. Yes.

Q. Who was the friend that she told that to?

A. This was from Barb Fernie.

Q. And then "Police would wonder how she could tell since they saw no similarities." Have I read
that correctly?

A. Yes.

Q. You're talking about police saw no similarities between the second-generation photocopy and the
actual ransom note itself?

A. No, trying to source a Xerox copy back to a particular note pad in the kitchen.

Q. The police couldn't tell the -- couldn't see the similarity of the Xerox copy and the note pad, right?

A. Right.

Q. They would wonder how Patsy could tell there was a similarity, right?

A. How one would make that suggestion, how a Xerox photocopy of a rather bland, generic piece of
paper on which the ransom note was written may have had its genesis from a tablet in the kitchen.

Q. Not that it had its genesis, but that it was similar, right? It was written on the same kind of
paper?

A. The Xerox copy did not leave me with that impression, that it did not strike me that way.

Q. Did that seem suspicious to you of Patsy Ramsey?

A. A bit.

Q. Did you ever stop and consider that she might have made the comment about the similarity
because she, sir, had seen the original of the ransom note prior in time?

A. But I think in this context she was looking at a photocopy.

Q. So you're telling me that she was trying to say that from the photocopy she thought that it was
similar. You don't think that she might have had the benefit of knowing what the actual note looked like
in terms of the paper? Would you concede that maybe that might be an inaccurate assumption on your
part, sir, you know, what you thought was suspicious wasn't suspicious at all?

A. No, I'm simply stating what struck the detectives in wonder is we thought that Barb Fernie's
statement was unusual, given this context.

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We all caught this the day the book came out - - posters on every forum wondered why any detective would think that suspicious - - she HAD handled the original note - - she knew exactly what the paper was like - - the photocopy didn't change what she knew already.