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17 Q. (By Mr. Levin) Mr. Ramsey, when
18 you came home on the 25th, do you recall if
19 you threw your clothes down the chute to the
20 second floor where someone who might have
21 been in the house would have access to them?
22 Can you tell us who might have done that?
23 A. Who knows. I don't know.
24 Q. I understand it is tough.
25 A. I really don't. Yeah, I don't

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1 know.
2 MR. WOOD: I mean, you asked for
3 his clothes in December of '97, you got them
4 in January of '98. Why, for the love of
5 common sense and logic, wouldn't you have
6 asked him about that in June of 1998 when
7 his memory was a lot more fresh, at least
8 fresher than it is now two plus years later?
9 But, you know, that's just a part of the
10 ongoing mystery of some of the aspects of
11 the case, I guess, in terms of the
12 investigation.
13 Q. (By Mr. Levin) Wool shirts, would
14 those normally go out to the cleaners or
15 would it depend? Even now, what is your
16 family practice?
17 A. Well, if it is a dry-cleaning
18 item, we'd normally send it directly to the
19 dry cleaners. Once in a while they get
20 thrown in by mistake, but particularly if it
21 is a shirt.
22 Q. Your dry-cleaning items, would you
23 just throw them down the chute and let Linda
24 sort them out, this is dry-cleaning, this
25 gets washed or would you separate them up

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1 front and keep them in a separate place, if
2 you recall?
3 A. I don't -- I am trying to
4 remember where the laundry chute went to. I
5 mean, it probably -- I wasn't that organized
6 to separate things out like that as a normal
7 course of business.
8 MR. BECKNER: Did you ask what he
9 did on that particular night with the shirt?
10 I missed that.
11 THE WITNESS: Frankly, I don't
12 remember.
13 MR. LEVIN: I thought I had asked
14 you. I wasn't sure if that was clear.
15 THE WITNESS: I mean, typically
16 if it is a wool shirt, something that does
17 require dry-cleaning, I try to get several
18 cycles out of it, but I don't remember.
19 MR. BECKNER: What was your
20 normal routine?
21 THE WITNESS: Well, normally, I
22 would --
23 MR. WOOD: About dry-cleaning?
24 MR. BECKNER: No.
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1 onto it. If it was something I wanted to
2 wear again, I'd hang it, I'd try to, I'd
3 usually hang it up. Sometimes I would put
4 it on a chair. But I wasn't religious about
5 that. I would normally try to hang it up.
6 Q. (By Chief Beckner) Let me be
7 more specific. Would you throw your clothes
8 on the floor typically in a pile?
9 A. Well, no, not, not if I was, if
10 I was going to wear it again. If it was
11 headed for the laundry, you know, it could
12 end up on the floor before it ended up in
13 the laundry chute, but if I intend to wear
14 it again, if it was a suit or sweater, or
15 something like that, I normally wouldn't
16 throw it on the floor.
17 MR. WOOD: Have we finished that
18 area of questioning because it seemed like
19 maybe it is a good time to take a short
20 break.
21 MR. LEVIN: I am finished with
22 that area.
23 MR. WOOD: Is that okay for
24 everybody to take a short break?
25 MR. LEVIN: That is good.

I still don't know what this is about - - were they trying to make John think fibers from his shirt were on the body and he needed to explain how an intruder could have gotten the fibers...??? if so,they didn't get anywhere as John just answered honestly - didn't jump for the opportunity to explain the theory the cops seemed to hold dear.