I reckon Patsy did not recognize how important the size-12's were, she was insufficiently briefed, which suggests a legal division between her and John, otherwise her version of events re the size-12's would have been much more consistent.
Oh, now there's an interesting idea. They did get separate lawyers in the first week, even if they all belonged to the same law firm. Surely Patsy's lawyer--Burke, was his name, was it?--and John's lawyers in the Hadden firm wouldn't have compromised their individual clients with a conflict of interest? Okay, maybe they would, but you could be right, in lieu of Patsy's answers to similar questions in 2000, when she changes her story as she is confronted with the problems in it. I have to think about this, because they both used Lin Wood by 2000, but Wood was and is not a criminal attorney.
What you have put your finger on is the part of Patsy's story that she has been briefed to present to the Atlanta interviewers, they must have known this would be a topic given it was all over the press and media about oversized underwear etc. But if Patsy is in on the deal, then she will know there are no size-12's left in the panty drawer, so the inference must be the intruder took them when exiting the premises. I reckon she does not know the remainder are missing, otherwise a better cover story would be forthcoming?
I'm thinking...thinking.... So...maybe that was the idea: let LE think the intruder took them. Even better, right? Patsy couldn't deny she bought them. She couldn't deny they were on JonBenet. She would have known they weren't in the drawer, though, if they were in the basement to be wrapped and sent. but used on JonBenet in a panic. So why say she put them in the drawer? I think that's your question? Back to not realizing that LE took all the underwear in for testing and analysis...?
Maybe a factor that threw Patsy was that she really didn't KNOW how HUGE the Bloomies were on JonBenet. That's clear from her statement "they weren't falling down", because from the model, if it's even reasonably close to accurate, yeah, they WOULD HAVE BEEN falling down, or at least ridiculously uncomfortable on a child who would complain, as all parents know. If the underwear was put on JonBenet after she was wiped down and immobile, that would explain Patsy's surprise at LE's questions in 2000: she WOULDN'T have know how huge they were and that the story JonBenet put them on herself that day and wore them to the White's doesn't work, so LE would focus on the Bloomies so much...? Also, I don't believe Patsy thought in her wildest dreams that a minute, partial cell of degraded DNA found in the Bloomies would end up being so important that the Bloomies themselves would be critical. So I guess what I'm wondering is if Patsy just didn't "get" the problems she faced when the questions about the Bloomies started in Atlanta. She'd skated through them in 1998, after all.
Okay, I thought of another possibility: maybe John grabbed the whole pack instead of one pair and took them downstairs to the basement, and Patsy didn't realize that, just remembered they were in the drawer, not somewhere else when they got eventually got "found". But then your point arises, if I'm following you: if they had FOUND the original pack, or one of the investigators had, why didn't Patsy know they had found them?
You know, this jogs a memory about Patsy and John and their PIs. Remember in '98 when Haney asked Patsy if she knew about the prior molestation of JonBenet, and she said no and Armistead, who was in the interview with her and her lawyer, said they'd never "told" her? That never made ANY sense to me, because I thought, if you wanted to KNOW who murdered your child and were paying lots of money to investigators to find out, wouldn't it be IMPERATIVE for them to ASK YOU about something like that, since it could be KEY if the killer was someone whom you knew who had access to JonBenet before that night? I guess the legal context is this: defense lawyers NEVER ask their clients if they're guilty, and they proceed to represent them AS IF THEY ARE. So maybe the Ramsey investigators never told Patsy about "finding" the package of Bloomies...? Maybe Patsy did think LE had them after all....
John is redressing JonBenet in size-12's because he has something to hide, also this is what he knows matches most closely what JonBenet was wearing. Myabe the size-12's were in Patsy's dresser drawer, maybe it was in his bedroom that JonBenet was wiped down with her size-6 Wednesday Bloomingdales? The size-12's may simply have been put back into Patsy's drawer, suitable wiped for prints etc?
Okay, that's another theory.... It's really amazing, isn't it, how hard we have to work on something that would be simple if the RST wanted to tell us the facts of where this alleged package of Bloomies was found. Their motto: Obscure, Evade, Obstruct.
No intruder needs to redress JonBenet at all, it is a redundant move, it serves no purpose. JonBenet is dead, redressing her in shiny new size-12's will not detract from that fact regardless of how she is presented. No intruder is concerned if everyone else is immediately aware that JonBenet has been molested!
I agree. And no intruder is going to run up and down the stairs for clean underwear while the family sleeps nearby, either, IMO.