Rain on my Parade
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"While the house search went on, other cops fanned out to canvass the neighborhood and conduct more interviews. Diane Brumfitt whom lived directly to the south reported that the light was off in the southeast corner sunroom of the Ramsey home and thought that was odd because it was the only time she was aware in the past few years that it did not burn all night.I'm not convinced the Maglite was the murder weapon either. That said, it was used that night. Perhaps they thought that if house lights were on while they were executing the cover up that neighbors would notice and consider it suspicious, and it would prove they were up and not in bed asleep as they claimed to have been. The one neighbor described seeing a light moving around, which appeared to them like someone walking around using a flashlight. The fact that it was wiped clean of fingerprints, including the batteries inside is very suspicious. I think that they did not put it away was simply a mistake on their part, as were the bowl of pineapple and the tea glass. There was a lot of staging that was done in a relatively short amount of time and these are not people educated in criminal activity or how to cover it up. IMO it's inevitable that they would make some mistakes. Although to your point, if they wanted LE to think that was the weapon brought by "the intruder", they would perhaps leave it out. But an intruder would not wipe it and leave it. And it was rather easily proven that the R's did in fact own it. My money on it was one of the mistakes they made.
Scott Gibbons to the north would say that the butler kitchen lights were on around midnight and considered that unusual since it was the first time he had noticed that light being on (dimmed low) in the Ramsey home.
The may have been a mistake to leave the torch out but I as well will stick to my guns about returning it to its rightful place. Why wipe and not return it? Thisw to me in misleading. The drawer was left partially open right above the attache below the wetbar where JR keep his junk. Probably three steps away from where PR deposited her notepad. Under media links post #309 you can see a video of the house as the camera exits the kitchen to the back hallway immediately looking into the den.