I have never seen the police reports written by the BPD of what the Ramseys said to them when questioned that morning at the home, separately, I believe.
I think we only have that information from the books written and what the Ramseys later said in their various interviews and wrote in their book.
I believe Thomas wrote that John told an officer that morning while they were in the house awaiting the ransom call that he read to JB. Later John denied saying this.
Patsy is reported in Thomas' book to have told LE that morning that JB was wearing the red turtleneck when she went to bed, but Patsy later denied ever saying that, as well.
I don't think Thomas would have lied about the reports. Of course, the police officers writing the reports could have mistaken what the Ramseys were saying, or the Ramseys could have actually given differing versions of those events that morning.
I doubt we'll ever know exactly what the truth is.
But it's pretty important to know what a kidnap victim was wearing when kidnapped, especially a child. So the most logical thing I can imagine is Patsy went into one of her long, winding stories about what JB was wearing and mentioned the red turtleneck, possibly with the story we've now heard about the argument they had over her wearing it to the White's party the night before. Maybe Patsy didn't get to "finish" the story as no doubt people were moving around and things were confused. Or maybe the police officer didn't get the full story written, was interrupted, etc.
Remember that red turtleneck was found on the vanity in JB's bathroom, wet and wadded up.
All to say that a "best guess" is often what we have in this case because the Ramseys changed their stories many times that we can see ourselves.
So JR and Patsy stuck to a final story that JB was asleep and carried to bed. Burke says she walked. Obviously if she was asleep, JR wouldn't have read to her. He later said he read HIMSELF when he went to bed and maybe that's what cops got confused.
The most accurate thing we can take away from this is the Ramsey's stories were often inconsistent and continue to be to this day.
That's a huge red flag because the truth doesn't change.
