We all have seen pictures of that wine cellar- filthy mold-covered floor, debris and paint cans, old screens. There is NO way Patsy would wrap presents in there (as she told LE she did) and no way anyone would need to hide presents in a place like that in a huge house that had to have many more suitable places. IMO, the presents were in the wineceller because whoever wiped the blood from JB's thighs and pubic area, and whoever redressed her were LOOKING for the new gift set of panties meant for Patsy's niece and was likely already wrapped up with some of her other gifts. I do not buy that it was BR snooping to see what they got for Christmas. He was old enough to know his parents could see the presents had been partially opened. Besides that, Patsy had her own version of why there were partially unwrapped presents in there- she said she had "forgotten" what was in the boxes. If she wrapped the way a normal person wraps a gift- a name tag is on the box. What difference does it make what is in a specific box? It ONLY matters if you need to remove something from a box and aren't sure which box it is in. There is no other reason to "partially" unwrap it. As for the Barbie doll in the room- this topic has been tossed around for many years. Long ago, Tricia reported that she had from an "impeccable source" that there was, indeed, a boxed Barbie doll in the winecellar with the body. Photos show it not ON the blanket, but tossed to the side. Of course, we do not know exactly where it was when JR removed JB's body from the blanket. I have never seen in ANY deposition or interview where JR was asked about the Barbie doll. He was asked about the Barbie nightie, but not the doll. If those of you who are long-time posters here recall, the boxed doll in the photo looked like the 1996 Holiday Barbie, something that is very likely to have been a gift to JB or her cousin (who was supposed to receive the panty gift set). It may have been wrapped as a gift for Jenny, and unwrapped in the process of getting the panty set. One thing that was also never looked into...was there a SECOND Holiday Barbie upstairs under the Christmas Tree that obviously WOULD have been JB's gift? We do not know, because LE never asked. And the RST made a big deal out of the "kidnapper" putting "Her favorite doll" in with her body. First- how would a kidnapper, especially a "small foreign faction", know which was her favorite doll? It may not even have been her doll.
I agree that the doll originated from a wrapped and then opened gift, but I don't see how it would have encouraged her to engage in abusive (i.e. sexual) behavior. I also disagree about the wine cellar being nothing more than a place to dump evidence (including the body). I think it was a place to HIDE the body temporarily until police left the house and the Rs could say they "found" her- dead.