I'm also pretty clueless. But I'll ramble on about it for a while. Here's the whole line item:
"11) blue piece of cloth, middle section cooler and rest of item;"
The person who wrote this is not going to win any awards for clarity.
Maybe a piece of blue cloth was sitting in the middle of a cooler. So maybe the line item is referring to seizing a piece of blue cloth, part of which was in the middle of a cooler.
Maybe the middle section of a cooler was lined with blue cloth. In that case, maybe the entire cooler or the entire cooler liner was taken.
It's also possible that these are basically two unrelated items that are listed on the same line. They did something like that on lines #14 and #18. In that case, they took a piece of blue cloth and whatever "middle section cooler and rest of item" means, presumably all or part of a cooler (which has nothing to do with blue cloth).
Here's the transcription of the listed items of page 7 of the SW (from upthread):
1) Smiley face memo;
2) white scraps of paper or fiber;
3) roll of kleenex cottonelle toilet paper;
4) yellow/clear toothbrush;
5) clear/pink toothbrush;
6) green/white toothbrush;
7) pink/clear toothbrush;
8) swabbing (1)
9) swabbings (2)
10) 3 toilet paper tubes;
11) blue piece of cloth, middle section cooler and rest of item;
12) roll of black duct tape;
13) walmart plastic bags;
14) Hefty cinch sax box with black plastic bags with yellow drawstring and small roll of toilet paper
15) Blue/clear gum microtip tooth brush
16) red/clear gum microtip tooth brush
17) purple/clear oral B toothbrush
18) white trash bag w/ yellow pull tie; walmart bag
FWIW, the handwriting seems to change at #14 in case you are trying to get clues from the context of its position in the list. It is odd to see a cooler listed amidst so many toothbrushes and bags.
I can see why they might take a piece of cloth for fiber evidence and maybe if it had stains on it, but I don't know why they would take a "middle section cooler and rest of item." If there was a stain or fluid in the cooler, you'd think they could just take a swab. So, maybe the blue cloth did have something to do with lining the cooler. :dunno: Again, whoever drew up the list wasn't interested in making this information as clear as possible.
That poor man. What hell to have to go through about a beloved daughter.
