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#1, RE: Thomas depo 6 - Don Foster (short)
Posted by jameson on May-16-03 at 06:02 PM
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Q. I want to go back. I told you I would do it, let's do it now. Look at page 281 of your book,
please, the hardback copy. The top of the page, the first actually it starts with "Don Foster from
Vassar." Do you see it?

A. Yes.

Q. The first paragraph there under that starts "'In my opinion, it is not possible that any individual
except Patsy Ramsey wrote the ransom note.'" Have I read that correctly?

A. Yes.

Q. Earlier we were talking about whose words. Don Foster stated that it was impossible for anyone
else to have written the note except Patsy Ramsey, true?

A. This is his statement, yes, sir.

Q. It was not -- and so I was accurate earlier, that he said to you it's impossible that anyone else
wrote it?

A. Well, when I asked about your earlier quotation, I don't think you said this verbatim. But --

Q. Fine. But he did tell you it was impossible, didn't he, it was not possible, which is saying to you as
a detective, it's impossible that anyone else wrote it according to Don Foster, right?

A. Yes, that was the conclusion that he shared with me, Mr. Wood.

Q. But when you worked with him, and you worked with him a lot, didn't you? You all spent a
considerable amount of time discussing this case, didn't you, you and Don Foster?

A. When you say considerable amount of time, you know, no, I didn't spend weeks or days with Don
Foster, but he was an outside expert that we used in this case, yes.

Q. At any time did Don Foster, himself, ever disclose to you that he had written a letter to Patsy
Ramsey?

A. Yeah, I became aware of that at some point.

Q. After the district attorney's office presented you with the information about Jameson, true?

A. I believe that's correct.

Q. Did Don Foster when you were working with him for whatever period of time you spent with
him, when he was giving you his conclusions about the JonBenet Ramsey case and the impossibility that
anybody else wrote that note except Patsy Ramsey, did he ever look at you and say, you know, you
probably ought to know, though, that I did write a letter to Patsy Ramsey where I told her that I was
convinced that she was innocent? He never told you that, did he?

A. We had that conversation at some point.

Q. After he had already been outed by the Boulder DA, true?

A. Possibly.

Q. Do you think you had it before then and didn't disclose it to your police department in the
presentation?

A. No, that sounds reasonable.

Q. You would have if you would have known it, you would have told the police department about
that in the June presentation, wouldn't you, sir?

A. Right.

Q. Well, actually the presentation with Foster was in March, wasn't it?

A. If we're talking about 1998.

Q. We are.

A. It was the spring of 1998.

Q. Right.