Moab
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As to the botanist or biologist Thomas refers to, I cannot find anyone at U of Co named Bach with Google, but maybe someone else can.Rainsong said:Oh, I believe it was pineapple too, but I'm not willing to accept Steve Thomas' word for it. I'd still like confirmation.
Rainsong
How about Schiller, will he do as confirmation? He had access to the files from the police.
For another source for the information on the pineapple, here is a transcript of Schiller on TV with Jane Pauley in 1999, before Thomas published his book. Schiller has stated that he had access to police reports for his book. His report is the same as Thomas's was. What follows are quotes from the transcript from the Dateline show.
http://thewebsafe.tripod.com/10121999schillerondateline.htm
Author and filmmaker Lawrence Schiller has covered sensational criminal cases for more than 30 years. Hes now a consultant for NBC News. His work ranges from highly respected to controversial. His attraction to the JonBenet murder case was probably inevitable. For the last year and a half hes been encamped in Colorado, living just outside of Boulder, interviewing hundreds of people some at the very heart of the investigation reviewing police documents no other journalist has seen. His forthcoming book is called, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town.
Schillers book presents a detailed account of the presentation police made last June, in which the police argued their case as if putting on a trial, albeit with no jury. It was the district attorney they were trying to persuade.
And the Ramseys recollection of the night before was already contradicted by the autopsy: undigested pineapple in JonBenets intestine, eaten no more than two hours before she died. Police knew pineapple had not been served at the Whites house, where the Ramseys ate dinner that night.
Schiller also learned police had found a bowl of pineapple in the Ramseys kitchen the day the body was discovered. When did she eat it? The parents claim they put a sleeping JonBenet straight to bed that night.