UK Guy - thank you for your post.
I am not sure I follow all the points above. I agree that until/unless ANY of the the DNA is identified in CODIS and an individual can be linked to the scene it is not relevant. If it is not sperm or blood it can too easily be due to secondary transfer. I think some earlier posts by Anti-K and others asserted that the location of the tDNA on the leggings/underwear was significant, and I disagree for the reasons posted above.
The idea that the leggings were clean and put on after JonBenet was killed is new to me. I have heard such theories about the underwear, and can accept that she might have been dressed in them postmortem. I believe I read that size 12 underwear were available in a gift package in the basement. This notion is not in conflict with the idea of DNA on the crotch of the underwear mingled with her blood. If she had secondary transfer from her hands to her genitals (from wiping or scratching) that would account for the transfer via blood when she was redressed. It would not be the case for the leggings, obviously. That would be an argument against the killer chasing down clean leggings. That and the fact that they were urine stained.
You said: "so as a point of future contention with any IDI, they are sure to say JonBenet wore the size-12's to the White's party." I may be slow, but I simply don't see why that is a problem. But that is perhaps because I don't think the size 12s are important?
Fides,
The idea that the leggings were clean and put on after JonBenet was killed is new to me.
Here is what I'm assuming: JonBenet returned from the White's wearing size-6 underwear and a pair of black velvet pants, if she dressed for bed then she wore the bloodstained Pink Barbie Nightgown which was left in the wine-cellar, containing BR's touch dna?
After she was assaulted and subject to blunt force trauma she was cleaned up and redressed, hence the size-12's and the white longjohns, the latter masking any visible signs of internal injury, once she was asphyxiated her bladder evacuated leading to the urine stains on the longjohns.
So I reckon the dna arrived via secondary transfer and not by JonBenet herself, IDI suggest the source is that of an intruder?
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