Thanks for that, questfortrue. I also suspected that Wood merely dusted off his old Carnes notes and threw some recycled bullSmit into the filing. I too am not aware of any source besides the Carnes decision for those claims about fibers, which must have come from Smit - who else would have access? Smit left the investigation in 1998 so none of the evidence he had as of the Wolf case would have been up-to-date - who knows how relevant or even accurate his information was? And boy does he have a record for inaccuracy.
I was reading one of the articles from his old Intruder Theory Live! press tour and it's ridiculous. The theory as he presents it to Time isn't even logical. For example, he posits the flashlight
left on the kitchen counter was the murder weapon, but that the crime took place in the basement after JB woke up from her knockout stun gunning, ripped the tape off her mouth and screamed. The intruder panicked, hit her on the head, and did not want to go up a floor to collect his now useless and needlessly incriminating (had it actually been in his handwriting, not Patsy's) ransom note. So he
breaks the basement window (at this point I'm thinking the reporter has completely lost track of what Lou was rambling about because I can't imagine even him saying something so outrageously false) and escaped that way. Farcical. This was the same article where Smit speculates that the kidnapper asked for $118,000 because he planned to exchange it for (almost) one million pesos. Half the stuff that comes out of his mouth is laughable, yet he is presented as some sort of genius sleuth by the media. I just don't get it.
Here is an interesting quote from Beckner on Smitty from an article about the release of DOI.
Smit and Beckner have expressed strongly opposed opinions about evidence in the case.
"The problem with it is he ignores the other evidence in the case," said Beckner, who believes Smit may have grown too close to the Ramseys. "Some of the information he is using is not accurate."
Court records released Tuesday reveal Boulder County prosecutors sought to prevent Smit from testifying before a grand jury investigating JonBenét's death about an intruder theory. The grand jury concluded Oct. 13 without charges being filed.
Smit is dedicated to investigating the possibility of an intruder, but said he does not work for the Ramseys.
"All I am asking is that (police) put a question mark after the Ramseys instead of an exclamation mark," Smit said.
Among the new evidence Smit points to that supports an intruder theory is a partial print on a suitcase found under a window in the Ramseys' basement. Smit believes an intruder could have stepped on the suitcase to get out of the window.
Beckner said he could not comment on that piece of evidence, other than "be careful about accepting that as evidence."
Smit also said foreign DNA found on JonBenét's body is definitely male, but he is unsure if the DNA underneath JonBenét's fingernails matches DNA on her underwear.
Smit said six handwriting experts during the police investigation examined Patsy Ramsey's handwriting, but the results were either "inconclusive or below."
Smit revealed that police found fibers from the same carpet on a baseball bat discovered in bushes outside the family's Boulder home. Beckner said the bat is "part of our investigation, and we are satisfied with what we came up with."
http://web.dailycamera.com/extra/ramsey/1999/16arams.html
What does Beckner's last comment about the bat fiber mean? I don't know. But the excerpt does establish that from the BPD's POV Smit was not a reliable source. I'm too lazy to dig up a reference but I recall Hunter saying something to the effect that he didn't want Smit testifying because of the inaccurate information he was spreading.
That is my long-winded way of saying that any info that can only be sourced to Wood via his filings is likely from Smit who is an unreliable source. While Mary Lacy later put Smit back on the case and theoretically gave him access to the evidence, there's no indication he looked at it or updated Wood. I recall Koldkase on FFJ ripping into the brown paper bag/rope fibers and making a pretty convincing case via the transcripts that he lied about it which I can locate if anyone is interested. Not sure if that is the same as/being confused with the cord fibers being discussed or if that is a separate piece of alleged evidence.
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