The Wednesday panties would have only mattered to Patsy, IMO. JB was well-known to ask anyone in earshot to help her wipe herself in the bathroom, and someone might have remembered special panties like those. SO if JB was wearing her OWN pair in size 6-8, they'd have to be replaced with the identical type (only a size 12 being available). I think the stagers needed to have it appear that nothing had been changed since she was put to bed. Since the blood had been wiped away, they never thought about it being discovered when she was swabbed during the autopsy. In addition, the drops of blood on her panties did NOT seep through to the long johns. Other blood inside the vagina and on the forchette would not have been seen except at the autopsy. I think the size 12 panties were thought to be a way to prove she had not been changed. When questioned about whether she was aware that the panties were several sizes too large, Patsy told LE that JB could just help herself to whatever was in her panty drawer. And we all know that the panties were part of a set of 7. NO other size 12s were found in the house. BUT the remaining 6 pairs were returned BY the Rs to police 5 years later! Said to have been found in a packing crate.
DeeDee249,
The Wednesday panties would have only mattered to Patsy, IMO.
This might be the case if JonBenet was appearing at some pageant where she might be observed changing between acts.
Otherwise the Wednesday panties cannot mean anything to anyone outside the Ramsey household, precisely because nobody can prove or disprove what she wore to
bed, what she wore to the White's Christmas Party is a matter for debate, but has no impact on what she ended up wearing in
bed.
SO if JB was wearing her OWN pair in size 6-8, they'd have to be replaced with the identical type (only a size 12 being available).
Nope the mistake here is to ignore the size, I did for years. Why bother with a Wednesday pair which were hidden beneath the longjohns anyway, nice one Burke, when the
size alone will act as a red flag indicator in the same way an absence of a Wednesday label would.
So without a size-6 pair labeled Wednesday anything else is a red flag to who it matters.
I think the stagers needed to have it appear that nothing had been changed since she was put to bed.
ITA. Except Patsy's line is JonBenet dressed herself in the size-12's, when she cannot tell us.
If JonBenet wore the size-12's to the White's Party as was observed as such then the
size factor alone could confirm this by anyone who observed Jonbenet, say using the bathroom?
Otherwise nobody knows what underwear she wore the White's Party. So therefore it does not matter what underwear JonBenet is redressed in, any pair of size-6 underwear Day Of The Week or not, as JonBenet could not read, it can be claimed JonBenet picked her size-6 underwear at random.
Even if she could read, lazyness or arbitrary decision making could be touted as reason for JonBenet selecting any pair of size-6 underwear.
So whomever redressed JonBenet in the size-12's night have matched the Day Of The Week Bloomingdales aspect, but then fell down big-time on the size-issue, so much so nobody dissents on the size-12's being a red-flag, something noted from the start of the case.
Since the exercise was homicide staging and not pageant dressup either parent would have realized dressing JonBenet in size-12's with a Wednesday day Of The Week would not work !
They would know
any pair of size-6 underwear, available from the same location Patsy says she fetched the longjohns, would be sufficient for compotent staging. They could explain away any observed differences between what she was seen wearing at the White's with what she ends up wearing to
bed with ad hoc ramsey style stories, e.g. she changed for the next day's flight, she picked any old size-6 pair for reason x.
The only person who might think Wednesday size-12's and longjohns were fine for a homicide staging might be someone with absolutely no knowledge of such matters, e.g. Burke, he would be thinking like any other child, i.e. inductively, she wore my longjohns before so its no big-deal, and the Day Of The Week matches, anyway its hidden beneath the longjohns, so he thinks its
good enough, not realizing the size-12 factor is a red flag to any parent, i.e. its a childs mistake?
I think the size 12 panties were thought to be a way to prove she had not been changed.
Yes,
thought is the operative word here. As nobody, except possibly Patsy, i.e. she chaperoned JonBenet bathing and dressing for the White's Party, can know exactly what underwear she wore either to the White's or to bed.
This person cannot be Patsy as she would know the size-6 Wednesday Bloomingdales would ultimately be discovered as missing and that the size-12 factor would be a red flag. What could not be simpler than selecting any pair of size-6 Bloomingdales from her bathroom underwear drawer and dressing her in those, job done?
Also Coroner Meyer's remarks about JonBenet being wiped down and the bloodstains on her underwear not being matched by similar blood deposits on her genital region tells everyone something has changed, even if it was not her underwear, i.e. the size-12's.
Looks like JonBenet was laid on the Barbie Nightgown and wiped down with the size-6 underwear or the pink pajama bottoms, the wiping down cloth has to be one of the items that vanished or it was the Barbie Nightgown as it is bloodstained?
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