Well, if you're RDI, the partially UNwrapped present (as opposed to partially wrapped) contained the package of the set of Bloomies day-of-the-week panties from which the size 12 Bloomies panties JB was wearing when her body was found came.
The wooden latch on the WC door was there to keep the kids out of that room. It was high up at the top of the door, so high up that the first police officer on the scene to do down the basement did not see it, and failed to open that door, which, on the other side was JB's body and an UNcontaminated crime scene. The kids would not have been able to get in the room with the latch in place.
DeeDee249, thanks so much for your help. I'll be honest, I'm an IDKWT(Beep)DI. :banghead:I say the word "Beep" out loud. I try not to cuss. Ain't easy with this case.
Why do people think it was the size 12 bloomies in that "partially wrapped" package? FAO Schwartz is an expensive toy store in New York that does mail order and I don't think they sell their wrapping paper. Isn't it a Fact this was FAO Schwartz paper or is that not true? My kids positively drool over their catalog.
I wonder if this was USED wrapping (as in opened that morning with a toy inside) and was being used again to partially wrap something else? I read the present was "partially wrapped". Kids identify exclusive wrapping paper with the store it came from. Imagine a kid sees FAO Schwartz paper and opens it to find, not a cool toy...but underpants? No. What ADULT would wrap underpants in wrapping paper that usually has really cool and EXPENSIVE kids' toys???? That would be mean, if the kid recognized the paper, wouldn't it? I could see a KID using used "cool" wrapping paper to wrap a present they made or something they own to give to someone else for Christmas (barbie doll?). (Girl's JB's age often give each other "presents" that their parents don't know about. Ask a teacher of kids that age if they have to sometimes send notes home requesting kids not to give "gifts" to each other.) I don't think PR would wrap underpants in used FAO Schwartz exclusive wrapping paper to give to any kid, hers or anyone else's unless she'd run out of wrapping paper.
The parents didn't put a lock on the door so they weren't worried about anyone but the kids getting in there so they put the latch where they thought the kids couldn't reach it. Wasn't it supposed to be where they stored Christmas decorations? I see it now, forgive me if I'm way behind..that was where PR hid presents...that was where they kept the presents from Santa and other gifts the R's didn't want the kids to find and PR wrapped presents in the basement right nearby...got it.
I remember having that overwhelming temptation to sneak into presents. My sibs and I did that at their ages and we even got really good at lifting off just enough tape so carefully we could sneak into wrapped gifts enough to find out what they were. If our parents knew, they never let on. Wrapping paper was nicer then and it was easier to do...not that I've tried lately or anything.:angel:
I bet B could have opened that latch if he really wanted to by standing on something or stack of things (chair/suitcase) and/or lifting someone else up (JB), what do you think? Do you think the kids might have snuck in there before Christmas? Was the reason JB was not that excited about her My Twinn Doll because she'd already seen it?
Wasn't PR down wrapping presents right before Christmas? A "My Twinn Doll" would have had to have been ordered well in advance. I bet PR couldn't wait to see that doll when it arrived and she probably couldn't wait to "see the look on her face" when JB opened it.
I wondered if PR "could have" ordered it wrapped...
And here is a chat from today with an Online MY TWINN rep:
[Visitor] Do you offer gift wrapping? How much is it?
[Lisa] Thank you for your patience. My name is Lisa and I would be happy to assist you today.
[Visitor] If I order a My Twinn doll that looks like my daughter, can that be wrapped?
[Lisa] we can not wrap the dolls but they come in a pink stripe box inside a cardboard box
[Visitor] That's good to know, thank you so much for your help!
[Lisa] you are welcome can I help with anything else?
[Visitor] Did you used to offer gift wrapping, do you know? Or have you never offered it for the dolls?
[Lisa] we never have pffered it for the dolls
[Visitor] Thanks so much for your help. You've been a big help.