LAST EDITED ON Nov-06-03 AT 02:44 AM (EST)
 
From page 3, "Death of Innocence" (paperback edition):

John Ramsey wrote about opening presents on Christmas morning.....

"JonBenet asked for Burke's assistance with the name tags, since he could read and she couldn't. It was the most fun in the world, doling out the gifts and seeing whose pile would become the biggest."

It seems to me since she apparently could not read, and needed help with reading the name tags, that pursuing the line of questioning about JBR being found with panties with the correct day on them---Wednesday----was reasonable--particularly ones that were too big, and may have been the only ones removed from the package. I find that curious....and not necessarily any attempt to trip Patsy up. If JonBenet had asked for Burke's help reading the names on the gifts--wouldn't she also have asked for help in picking out the right pair of panties? Was it just coincidence that she grabbed the right pair? Could the perp have found them first, and taken the Wednesday panty out? Some kind of message that pointed to Christmas Day, since it fell on a Wednesday? Was he planning on using this in any further contact with the Ramseys--to prove he was who he said he was? ie: look in the drawer, and the Wednesday panties are missing?

The original question:

(By Mr. Levin) Ms. Ramsey, we
9 are going to move on to another area. And
10 what I want to discuss with you is the
11 underpants that JonBenet was wearing at the
12 time that she was discovered on the 26th.
13 We are going to try to get some background
14 information on those from you. Hopefully you
15 can help us out a little bit. Okay?