I am new to websleuths (having been a lurker) and just started posting a about a month ago.
Now I am totally sucked into the JB case again.
And have a little info. Okay I will try to make it short.
One of my oldest friend's moved back to Boulder to live after her divorce. When JB was murdered her sister (whom I also know well) Kept seeing the R house on the news when the murder occurred and thought hmmm looks familiar, but they were born and raised in Boulder and she did not think to much of it. (the house looking familiar). A couple of days later her friend calls and says do you have any idea who that is and she said no. She said that is the house we went to for so and so's baby shower a few years ago. She was like oh my gosh and then it came back to her. She called me (the sis) knowing I am a true crime buff and was following this case closely at that time. She stated it was a hoity toity formal baby shower that Patsy was giving. She was not real comfortable. ( we are just minions, of course). But went for the friend .
NOW it gets better. She almost faints about 3 or 4 years after the murder when detectives come to her home and asks her for the shoes she wore to the baby shower. They must have had a list from someone. She is shocked and does not believe 1) that the detectives are there in her house on this high profile case and 2) she actually remembers after thinking which shoes she wore, but figures they are long gone, but goes and looks in a box in the garage of old shoes of hers, the kids, and husband: low and behold there they are in this box. (The sis is very out doorsy) does not dress up for anything unless it is a wedding. LOL: and they were not dress shoes, more like a hiking boot, or running shoes. I will need to ask her as I have forgotten. The detectives take them and she never hears from them again.
Anyhow it shows they were still trying to to rule out any and everyone but the parents in my opinion.. Bizarre. She is still shocked she was even in the house let alone detectives were at her house a few years later collecting shoes from a baby shower a few years before the murder.. Not sure of the time line, but probably just before the grand jury convened. We do not talk as often as we used to, maybe once a year. But I think I will call and get more clarification. I do know they all think, and there is no doubt in their mind's that the R's are involved.