About Burke's knife:
http://www.acandyrose.com/s-evidence-knives.htm
(Excerpt):
1997-04-30: Patsy Ramsey Interrogation by Steve Thomas, Tom Trujillo
Patsy Ramsey Interrogation by Steve Thomas, Tom Trujillo
Also present, Pat Burke, Bryan Morgan, Pete Hoffstrom, Jon Foster
April 30, 1997 - Boulder, Colorado
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ST: Patsy, once we were told that Burke at times, would walk through the house whittling and that was something that apparently got on Linda Hoffmans nerves somehow to clean up after him.
PR: Right.
ST: Was this consistent with his little pocketknife?
PR: Yeah.
ST: Hed walk through the house whittling and for the tape, Im showing Patsy a photo of a little red Swiss army knife.
PR: Right. He had one we had gotten him in Switzerland, it had his name on it. Does this have his name on it?
ST: I dont know.
PR: You dont know, OK
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(Excerpt):
1999-08-02: Red knife a Ramsey mystery
http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/extra/ramsey/0802rams1.shtml
August 2, 1999
Red knife a Ramsey mystery
Housekeeper who hid tool wonders how it reappeared, doubts intruder theory
By Charlie Brennan
Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer
BOULDER -- John and Patsy Ramsey's former housekeeper doubts an intruder killed their daughter.
One big reason is a little red knife.
Linda Hoffmann-Pugh, who worked for the Ramseys in their home for more than a year up to the time of JonBenet Ramsey's slaying on Christmas night 1996, doesn't know who killed the child.
But she doubts a stranger broke in, snatched JonBenet from her bed, beat her, strangled her with a garrote, then left her bound with white cord in a little-used basement room to be discovered the next day by her father.
Central to Hoffmann-Pugh's skepticism is a mystery surrounding a knife she once hid -- and that JonBenet's killer may have found.
"I think it's a legitimate area of concern that she has pointed out," said one detective who has worked on the case and knows Hoffmann-Pugh's story.
JonBenet's brother Burke, 9 at the time of the murder, was in the habit of wandering around the family's Boulder home whittling with his Swiss Army knife.
He'd trail shavings behind him so often that Hoffmann-Pugh warned she'd take away the knife if he didn't become more tidy.
He didn't. About a month before JonBenet's murder, Hoffmann-Pugh made good on her threat.
"I got tired of cleaning it up," she said. "He'd been asked to do it over paper or a bag or something. So, I just put the knife up one day, in a cupboard over the sink in that area outside of JonBenet's room" on the home's second level, an area that also had a microwave and laundry facilities.
Hoffmann-Pugh never saw the knife again.
But it resurfaced.
Included in the exhaustive inventory of items removed from the house following the 10 -day police search: "red pocket knife w/broken ornament" from the family's basement.
Specifically, Detective Kerry Yamaguchi discovered Burke's knife on a countertop near a sink just down a basement corridor from the small basement room where JonBenet's body was found.
Hoffmann's-Pugh's question: How did the knife get there?
"That showed up where JonBenet was," said Hoffmann-Pugh. "I would stake my life that an intruder wouldn't know to get that out of the cupboard. Someone took that knife out of the cupboard where I put it."
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