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JonBenét New Grand Jury Evidence, Panties Prove Mom Did It! -- say insiders
Underwear Evidence Rips 'Intruder' Claim to Pieces - Only mom would have known where to find the oversize panties placed on Little Beauty's body -- say sources
A damning new "missing link" piece of evidence -- a pair of oversize panties -- has blown the lid off the JonBenét murder case by tying the child's mom Patsy Ramsey to the gruesome crime, sources told GLOBE.
From the beginning, cops knew the 6-year-old pageant princess was wearing underpants six sizes too big and stamped with the word "Wednesday" at the time of her death, say sources.
But it was only after the Boulder, Colo., grand jury recalled a witness and asked about a shopping trip Patsy took to Bloomingdale's in New York with JonBenét that investigators realized the vital significance of the panties.
They discovered that Patsy bought them, say sources, and ONLY she could have known the special place where they were stored in the house.
This blockbuster revelation demolishes claims by the Ramseys that an intruder broke into their million-dollar mansion, strangled JonBenét and hid her body in the basement, where she was discovered on the morning of Dec. 26, 1996, say insiders.
Now the entire case -- and who is charged with the killing -- could hinge on a pair of underwear, say sources. "Perhaps more than any other single piece of evidence, the mystery of the size 12 panties -- which were twice the size JonBenét normally wore -- proves Patsy Ramsey is the murderer," says a source close to the police.
GLOBE learned that the breakthrough in the case came after a witness close to the Ramseys told the grand jury about Patsy's shopping trip to Manhattan with her mom Nedra Paugh and JonBenét in the fall of 1996 -- just months before the murder, say sources.
The grand jury felt what happened on the trip was so important, they sent police to Atlanta to interview Nedra, JonBenét's grandma, even though she had already been questioned three times before.
On the shopping spree, which included a visit to Bloomingdales', Patsy paid $24.99 for a size 12/14 set of "bloomies" panties with the days of the week on them for her niece, a girl older than JonBenét, according to a source. The seven-panty set was identical to one JonBenét had -- only hers were a size 6.
When the gals returned to Boulder from their trip, Patsy was going to send the larger panties to her niece, but JonBenét wanted to keep them, an insider confides.
"JonBenét and her mom were in her room when Patsy pulled out the pack of size 12 panties," says the insider. "An excited JonBenét told her mom, 'Don't send those to Aunt Polly -- I want them, I want them!'
"When Patsy answered, 'But they are much too big for you,' JonBenét said, 'That's OK, Mom, I'll grow into them.' So Patsy opened the packages and put them into a bathroom drawer next to JonBenét's identical set of size 6 panties."
Patsy kept the panties in a drawer in the bathroom -- instead of in the bedroom for convenience sake, says a source, because JonBenét often had to be washed and changed at night due to her frequent bed-wetting.
But the source insists that JonBenét had never worn the larger briefs until the night of her death!
Insiders tell GLOBE the new evidence fills in the missing pieces of the murder scenario for investigators and links Patsy to the crime.
"Police believe the girl's death was triggered by a bed-wetting incident," says a source. "During an argument over an 'accident,' JonBenét was fatally injured when she was either hit on the head or her head slammed against something hard like a bathroom sink after she was shoved.
"The killer panicked. In an attempt to clean up the crime scene, the killer stripped off the urine-soaked sheets from the bed, and JonBenét's underpants and Barbie nightgown and threw them in the nearby washer.
"The bed was remade with fresh sheets and the unconscious child was dressed in white long johns, a white Colorado Avalanche hockey team sweatshirt and clean panties."
But in haste, the killer accidentally grabbed the larger panties which were stored next to JonBenét's size 6 underwear, the sources says.
"Then the barely alive girl was half carried, half dragged down the stairs to the basement, where the killer wrapped the white cord around her neck and strangled her.
"As JonBenét died -- her body did what most bodies do at the moment of death -- it expelled urine, and stained her clothes again."
The evidence points directly at Patsy as the killer, say insiders, because an intruder would not have:
* Known about the special drawer where the underwear was kept.
* Known the location of the stacked washer and dryer in a closet near the child's bedroom.
* Taken time to remake the bed, redress the child and wash the urine-stained sheets and nightclothes.
* Taken time to write a three-page ransom note while the parents were sleeping in the house.
Now that the grand jury has the panty evidence, cops expect them to indict Patsy for the girl's killing when they wrap up their seven-month probe in the coming weeks, say sources.
"Patsy Ramsey bought both sizes of underwear and put them in JonBenét's drawer," says a source. "She knew right where to look in a panic situation.
"Those panties may be the very thing that puts Patsy in jail for the rest of her life."
So thats a pack of size-12's and a pack of size-6's.
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