Has it been written or said anywhere else that the dictionary pic fell out? The only thing I can find is in ST's 'JonBenet',p. 263:
"Then,while reveiwing a list of book titles from the Ramsey home at the request of Don Foster,I dug out the polaroid photographs from the Evidence Room.Using magnifying glasses,Pat Peck and I compared the titles on the list with what the pictures showed.Entire shelves of books had been overlooked.
When we checked the photos from a big manila envelope marked as evidence item #85KKY,I almost fell out of my chair,and Peck inhaled a sharp surprise.A picture showed
Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary on a coffee table in the first floor study,the corner of the lower left-hand page sharply creased and pointing like an arrow to the word
incest.Somebody had apparently been looking for a definition of sexual contact between family members.
Ever so slowly,our accumulated circumstantial evidence grew."
It sounds like Steve Thomas didn't think it was planted.
You may be right, and I'm printing out your post to look it up later in my paperback version. But even if Burke were looking it up, and suddenly had to close the book because someone was coming, I rather doubt he would make such a bold dogear. In fact, in the picture, wasn't the dictionary still open? But of course I don't claim to be any authority on the subject. Especially if I can't find the text in my version. He had to use a magnifying glass to see that it was a dogeared dictionary and could read the words in the picture? Hm.....Has anyone ever taken a polaroid picture of a book such as a dictionary to see if the words could be read with a 400X or 800X magnifier?
I guess it would depend on how far away from the dictionary the pic was taken,and what level of magnification was used? Also,how large is the print ? Didn't JR say he stopped flying due to cataracts or something?He may have had one of those large print dictionaries.