Now thinking on this some more. Mmm, interesting.
They asked Patsy what the subject of the painting was that she had made for John. I can't remember what her answer was without checking, but I think it was a boating scene.
They asked John the same question and he came up with a completely different scene, it may have been golf, but again without checking I can't be sure. All that stood out for me was that they had given different answers and I thought it very ODD, because you would know if someone had made you a painting what it was a painting of, it would be special and personal because it was made for you.
If my above speculated reason for the purchase of tape and string was correct, one of them may have been lying (or both) so that these materials couldn't be verified. Give them the wrong painting if they asked to take it into evidence. wink wink.
Well my BS-o-Meter is now on red alert. My review of the interview transcripts reveals it was even worse than what I first thought I remembered.
Patsy:-
[FONT=&]13 TOM HANEY: How about John, what did he get?[/FONT]
[FONT=&]14 PATSY RAMSEY: Well, I made him a painting --[/FONT]
[FONT=&]15 golf or whatever it is. He gave me a gold bracelet.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]16 I had given JonBenet a little gold bracelet[/FONT]
[FONT=&]17 the night of our Christmas party. It had her name[/FONT]
[FONT=&]18 engraved on it Christmas day, but she was all dressed[/FONT]
[FONT=&]19 up that night, and I gave her that. She got a lot of[/FONT]
[FONT=&]20 craft making things, the little bead things you melt[/FONT]
[FONT=&]21 together kind of, stuff from Toys R Us.
These are taken from the 1998 interviews. Notice how she is asked what
John got for Christmas and she quickly diverts to what she got and what she gave JonBenet. My first observation is if you have made a painting that took a lot of time to complete you don't say "or whatever it is", you do know very well what it is, you are the creator. My second observation is she tries to bury her answer amongst a load of other information that isn't asked for. If you go to the interview transcripts at line 396 and thereabouts, you will notice she sticks to answering just the question asked - before and after that question. I'm convinced that this was a lie and she felt uncomfortable so had to keep talking, to divert away from the subject. Seen with John's answers in his interview, I feel comfortable now in concluding that the tape and cord purchases were specific to the painting she made. John confirms it with an absolute massive red flag when he says that the painting Patsy gave him
was of a completely different scene and wasn't even made by Patsy, it was made by a local artist. So the fixings on the back would already be in place and would not come from Patsy's supplies. Making it an ideal painting to offer up for inspection. Not only that, but its position behind the couch after being unwrapped suggests it's been placed there out of view.
John:-
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[FONT=&]21 LOU SMIT: This may not be exactly the[/FONT]
[FONT=&]22 time to interject, but did you get a painting for[/FONT]
[FONT=&]23 Christmas?[/FONT]
[FONT=&]24 JOHN RAMSEY: Yeah, that's right.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]25 LOU SMIT: Tell me about that.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]0083[/FONT]
[FONT=&] 1 JOHN RAMSEY: It was a painting of some[/FONT]
[FONT=&] 2 boats at anchor that Patsy had seen in, I think, a[/FONT]
[FONT=&] 3 local art store. It was done by a local Boulder[/FONT]
[FONT=&] 4 artist. And she had got me that for Christmas[/FONT]
[FONT=&] 5 which were going to take it up to our cottage up[/FONT]
[FONT=&] 6 in Michigan. It was behind the couch, I think.[/FONT]
[FONT=&] 7 LOU SMIT: Yeah. I was just wondering[/FONT]
[FONT=&] 8 where that would have been kept that evening.[/FONT]
[FONT=&] 9 JOHN RAMSEY: Yeah. That's where it was[/FONT]
[FONT=&]10 the next morning. I don't know how long it had[/FONT]
[FONT=&]11 been there.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]12 LOU SMIT: But it's small enough to hide[/FONT]
[FONT=&]13 behind the couch (INAUDIBLE)?[/FONT]
[FONT=&]14 JOHN RAMSEY: It could have been behind --[/FONT]
[FONT=&]15 probably about that high and not quite as wide as[/FONT]
[FONT=&]16 that wall. So it was fairly large. And I recall[/FONT]
[FONT=&]17 that's where she had it; behind the couch. And[/FONT]
[FONT=&]18 then she got that out, that was when Christmas was[/FONT]
[FONT=&]19 all over.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]20 LOU SMIT: It was wrapped?[/FONT]
[FONT=&]21 JOHN RAMSEY: Yeah. The picture was wrapped.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]22 LOU SMIT: I was just wondering, like when you[/FONT]
[FONT=&]23 brought the bikes back in and Patsy was already in[/FONT]
[FONT=&]24 bed and then --[/FONT]
[FONT=&]25 JOHN RAMSEY: Yeah.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]0084[/FONT]
[FONT=&] 1 LOU SMIT: -- I don't know if you would[/FONT]
[FONT=&] 2 have[/FONT]
[FONT=&] 3 seen something like that?[/FONT]
[FONT=&] 4 JOHN RAMSEY: I didn't see it. So I knew[/FONT]
[FONT=&] 5 it must have been there by the couch. That's my[/FONT]
[FONT=&] 6 assumption.[/FONT]