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@Rain on my Parade for this......very interesting and of course not what she told police that morning. Prompted me to do a little digging and found another interview where she is talking to police and Steve Thomas asks her if she wrote the note. She of course denies it, and then he asks her, "is there any reason, Patsy, that your blatted print of your hand will be on that paper when it tests"? He has to explain to her what blatted means, and then she says, "I don't know, I picked it up or touched it, it may be on there, but I did not write the note". So her story up until she is presented with the possibility that a part of her handprint might be on the note, is that she stepped over it and that it was JR who picked up the note off the stair and then placed it on the floor to read. Interesting, and yet another example of having to change the story to fit what was found, although in this instance Thomas seems to suggest it had not yet been tested.
Later, after testing has been done and concluded we find that no fingerprints were found on the RN with the exception of Chet Ubowski's who had handled it at one point. They also tested the note pad that the RN came from, and found 7 latent fingerprints, none of which belonged to an intruder who had supposedly written the note on the pad. One belonged to police sergeant Whitson who handled the notepad on the morning of the 26th, another from Ubowski again, and the other 5 were all from PR.
Another couple of interesting points. PR says she only read the first couple of lines of the note, and yet while appearing on the show 48 Hours, JRsays: "Well, I can remember Patsy saying, 'What should we do,' you know, 'it says not to call the police'". How could she know that if she only read the first one or two lines on the first page?
And in a deposition given by JR in December of 2001, and as reported by the Daily Camera the following is quoted: Q - "When you were looking at the ransom note, was there anything in the language of the ransom note that struck you as peculiar"? A - "The whole thing was peculiar. We were addressed as 'Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey', and then they switched to 'John' personally". He goes on with a couple other things he found peculiar, but what caught my eye is that the final ransom note was addressed only to "Mr. Ramsey", however it was the practice note that was in fact addressed to "Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey".
The point about JR kneeling on the hardwood floor in his underwear to read the note is well taken. Yet another somewhat ridiculous detail provided by the R's that just doesn't make a lot of sense. And yes, he was fully dressed and groomed when the police arrived on the scene within minutes of the 911 call.
