Zman said:Still say he went there because it's probably the only place he had not looked as of yet. Why? Because FW said he already looked in there. Wonder why FW was right behind JR going down the basement? Trying to get to that room first maybe?
John Ramsey and Fleet White went downstairs to the basement together at about 1:00 PM and the first room they entered was the train room. While in the train room they briefly discussed the broken basement window, and it's when John admitted to Fleet that he had broken the window himself earlier that year. From the train room they entered the hallway which leads past the boiler room on the left and to the wine cellar which was straight ahead. John opened the wine cellar door while Fleet was only several steps behind him. JonBenet's body was toward the middle of the floor but a little to the left and about one or two steps away from the door.
It was about 1:05 PM when John carried JonBenet's body upstairs after spending a few seconds, for some reason or another, trying to fully untie her hands which were bound together tightly at the wrists. He managed to get one hand free, which allowed the ligature to relax, before carrying her upstairs. In the meantime Fleet, who apparently didn't know whether JonBenet was alive or dead, had ran upstairs ahead of John yelling for someone to call an ambulance.
John, incidentally, didn't know that Fleet had searched the basement by himself at around 6:20 that morning, soon after he and Priscilla had arrived at the Ramseys house. Fleet insists that when he opened the wine cellar door and looked in during that early morning 6:20 AM search he would have seen JonBenet's body had it been there. John didn't find out about Fleet's early morning solo search until the police interviews in 1998.
IMO it's the main reason for the falling out between the Ramseys and the Whites. Fleet knows that a Ramsey was involved in the death because he knows John moved the body between the two times Fleet looked into the wine cellar -- once at 6:20 AM and once at 1:05 PM.
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