One tiny detail I overlooked for many years, was the fact that BR had an aquarium with (presumably) pet fish in it. It was rarely mentioned, in fact now (in 2015) I can only find 2 references to it. Makes me feel a little sad for BR, because his fish would surely been important
to him.
We know that JBR's dog Jacques had been sent to the Barnhill's and was not in the house the night of the murder. Seems reasonable that PR made sure the dog would be taken care of during the holiday trips to Charlevoix and Big Red Boat. But, PR as "the mother", I would have expected her to make arrangements for BR's fish to be cared for while the family was gone. LHP was scheduled to come to the house on 27th - but what about after that? Do we even know when the R's were originally planning to return to Boulder after their trips?
Being wintertime, I would think it would have been difficult to transfer the fish to a fish tank set up at a friend's house, without a great deal of effort and necessary care transporting them. Was a friend given a key to come feed the fish while family was gone? Just common sense questions which have lingered in my mind.... especially after reading this archived Boulder News Sept 1997 article stating that journalists were allowed in the house and report seeing a fish tank (WITH FISH) in BR's room. And we know the R's never returned to that house after the murder.
ok quotes below:
http://web.dailycamera.com/extra/ramsey/1997/09/11-1.html
(snip)
Ramseys open up to press
By CLAY EVANS
Camera Staff Writer
Thursday, September 11, 1997
As the investigation into the slaying of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey marches through its ninth month, the Ramsey family has slowly opened their lives to more scrutiny by press and public.
Patsy Ramsey, the girl's mother, appeared on the television show "American Journal" and called Larry King's CNN talk show last week; the family agreed to allow the case to be featured on the TV program "America's Most Wanted."
Wednesday night, television journalist Diane Sawyer broadcast a tour of the Ramsey home granted her by a family representative.
The layout, condition and atmosphere of the family's spacious University Hill home are among the peripheral aspects of the case since JonBenet was discovered strangled in the basement on the afternoon of Dec. 26.
Despite efforts by the family and its representatives to keep press and public out of the house (now unoccupied and on the market), there have been breaches in security."
... "Earlier this summer, two Ramsey family representatives agreed to show a Daily Camera reporter through the house, on the condition that the information not be printed until a later date. This week, following revelations that Sawyer would show the home on "Prime Time Live," the Daily Camera was given permission to publish a rough description of the house.
Many of the family's personal effects, including a fish tank containing fish belonging to JonBenet's 10-year-old brother Burke Ramsey."
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then this quote said to be from the official interview of Lou Smit and JR:
7 LOU SMIT: Now let's think throughout the
8 night. I know you probably thought that a 100
9 times. Did you hear anything throughout the night?
10 JOHN RAMSEY: No. Not a thing.
11 LOU SMIT: Let's talk about the sounds in your
12 house. Have you ever been wakened by your children
13 before at night?
14 JOHN RAMSEY: I don't recall I ever have been.
15 They would sometimes they would come in the bed
16 with us. But I don't remember ever being awakened
17 by a noise or (INAUDIBLE).
18 LOU SMIT: Would either JonBenet or would
19 Burke ever cry out in their sleep if they had bad
20 dreams?
21 JOHN RAMSEY: I remember Burke used to talk
22 in his sleep. But crying out, no, I don't remember
23 that.
24 LOU SMIT: Could you ever hear Burke talk
25 in
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1 his sleep?
2 JOHN RAMSEY: I don't remember, no.
3 LOU SMIT: In Burke's room, does he have an
4 aquarium?
5 JOHN RAMSEY: Yes.
6 LOU SMIT: Can you describe any noises that
7 that makes?
8 JOHN RAMSEY: It just has a normal pump. It
9 was (INAUDIBLE), it's not particularly noisy.
10 LOU SMIT: How about, in almost every house,
11 especially my house, did you ever hear noises
12 associated with (INAUDIBLE) home noises? Can you
13 remember anything, maybe not that particular night
14 but any other night?
15 JOHN RAMSEY: I really can't. I mean we hear
16 noises from -- when we hear noises, it was
17 typically from outdoors from students.
18 LOU SMIT: You can hear that from your room?
19 JOHN RAMSEY: We always slept with the windows
20 open.
21 LOU SMIT: How did you sleep that night with
22 your windows open?
23 JOHN RAMSEY: Probably cracked. I always
24 liked to have the window open. But it was winter
25 night so we cracked it probably.
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