IIRC, Ramsey claimed that he may have mentioned the window to Arndt.
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I dont know if it is possible to later immediately say, but anyway, Andreww, youve raised these questions before, and they were answered before. Ill try again.
Mr Ramsey saw nothing unusual when he noticed and latched the window, and the police ahd already been in the basement to look around so they had presumably already seen the window, so Mr Ramsay may have thought there wasnt really anything to mention (its okay if you think he was wrong).
AK
Lets Start by looking at a few quotes from John...
ST: So the morning of the 26th do you recall checking all the doors, and they were locked?
JR: I believed I checked all the first-floor doors, yeah. I did go out once. I went out to the door that leads into the garage to see if it was locked because theres a bunch of boxes piled in front of it and you couldnt get to it from the inside of the garage. So I did in fact go out of the house once, which would have been for, you know, half a minute.
ST: And that was from where to where?
ST: I went out the side door around to the back of the garage to see if that garage door into the garage was locked.
ST: And then immediately back into the house?
JR: Yeah.
So here we have John admitting that he was actively looking for a point of entry or exit. This is the first thing he does, before LE even arrives at the scene.
JOHN RAMSEY: (INAUDIBLE). They were leaving
21 little clues to analyze this. I think entry was
22 gained through the basement window.
23 LOU SMIT: Why do you think that?
24 JOHN RAMSEY: Because the window was cracked
25 open. There was this large suitcase under it, as
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1 if it was used to climb out. That suitcase didn't
2 belong there.
Now we have John (at a later date ) saying that the window was unlatched and there was a suitcase under it that didn't belong there. Any Alarm bells going off John?
JR: Ah, well, I remember they took me aside, and we sat in John Andrews room which is the one next to JonBenets and she went through what I should do when we talked to the caller and I must insist that I talk to JonBenet and that we need until 5 oclock to raise the money. Id actually called my (inaudible) and arranged for the money. Ah, and I think we had by that time started to wonder if one of the housekeepers might be involved. And there was some activity around that direction. We waited until past 11 and then we, and then I think we were in the living room and Linda said why dont you take someone and look through the house and see if theres anything you notice thats unusual. And Fleet and I, Fleet was standing there and said hed go with me. And we went down to the basement, went into the train room, which is, you know, the train set is, and thats really the only window thats, would let in entrance into he basement.
And actually Id gone down there earlier that morning, into that room, and the window was broken, but I didnt see any glass around, so I assumed it was broken last summer. I used that window to get into the house when (inaudible) I didnt have a key. But the window was open, about an eighth of an inch, and just kind latched it. So I went back down with Fleet, we looked around for some glass again, still didnt see any glass. And I told him that I thought that the break came from when I did that last summer and then, then I went from there into the cellar. Pull on the door, it was latched. I reach up and unlatched it, and then I saw the white blanket, (inaudible).
So John has found a broken unlatched window with a suitcase under it that isn't supposed to be there while he is admittedly on the hunt for an entry/exit point, and his only action is to latch it and not mention it again for three months?
So AK, I'm not going to let you or your other IDI pals of the hook on this one. Tell me why John didn't mention this unlocked window again? Wait, lets let John explain first...
JOHN RAMSEY:
But it was open and there
2 was
3 a suitcase under it. This hard Samsonite suitcase.
4 LOU SMIT: Describe how the suitcase was
5 positioned?
6 JOHN RAMSEY: It was against the wall. I think
7 the handle was on top. It was directly under the
8 window, as I recall.
And I closed the window, I
9 don't know why, but I closed it. And then --
10 LOU SMIT: When you closed it, did you lock
11 it or close it?
12 JOHN RAMSEY:
I latched it. There's a little
13 latch on it.
14 LOU SMIT: And you're sure of that?
15 JOHN RAMSEY:
Pretty sure, yeah. Yeah, I am
16 sure. I don't think I looked anywhere else.
I
17 think at that point I still was trying to figure
18 out how they'd get in the house.
19 LOU SMIT:
Well wouldn't that trigger your
20 (INAUDIBLE).
21 JOHN RAMSEY:
Yeah. Yeah.
22 LOU SMIT:
Did you tell anybody about that?
23 JOHN RAMSEY:
I don't really remember. I mean,
24 part of what is going on you're in such a state of
25 disbelief this can even happen. And the, you know,
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1 the window had been broken out. And you say hah,
2 that's it. But it was a window that I had used to
3 get into the house before. It was cracked and open
4 a little bit. It wasn't terribly unusual for me.
5 Sometimes it would get opened to let cool air in
6 because that basement could get real hot in
7 winter. So it was like, you know, after I thought
8 about it, I thought it was more of an alarming
9 situation how it struck me at the time. It was
10 still sort of explainable to me that it could have
11 been left open.
12
And the suitcase was unusual. That shouldn't have
13 been there. I took that suitcase downstairs, I
14 remember. But I sure wouldn't have taken it all
15 the way back there and put it against the window.
Okay AK, you're up. Lets hear your reasonable explanation for this obvious bit of BS straight out of "Mr Ramsey's" mouth?