I think if you follow in order everything John Ramsey has ever said about the window. It certainly doesn't add up.
In the below 1st police interview John says he found no glass at all on both trips down to the basement. He also says he latched/closed the window on the first trip when he was alone & on the SECOND trip with Fleet John told him about the break.
April 30, 1997
JR: And actually Id gone down there earlier that morning, into that room, and the window was broken, but I didnt see any glass around, so I assumed it was broken last summer. I used that window to get into the house when (inaudible) I didnt have a key. But the window was open, about an eighth of an inch, and just kind latched it. So I went back down with Fleet, we looked around for some glass again, still didnt see any glass. And I told him that I thought that the break came from when I did that last summer and then, then I went from there into the cellar.
So at the moment there is a broken window which John says he closes on the first occasion. He looks for glass when he was on his own a didn't find any and then later looks with Fleet and still doesn't see any. When in the basement he tell Fleet he broke the window last summer.........
Then comes June, 1998.
23 LOU SMIT: You said you moved it? Did you
24 mention that?
25 JOHN RAMSEY: I moved it a bit just to see
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1 if there was glass. It's funny how you remember
2 things. I swear that window opened from the other
3 side. I guess other than that, I can't see
4 anything.
14 LOU SMIT: Now you said that you picked up
15 pieces of glass.
16 JOHN RAMSEY: Um hmm.
17 LOU SMIT: A few little pieces.
18 JOHN RAMSEY: Um hmm.
19 LOU SMIT: And did you say you put them on
20 the window well or on the suitcase or do you
21 remember?
22 JOHN RAMSEY: I don't remember for sure.
23 There wasn't enough there for me to be convinced
24 that the window was broken that morning. I was
25 assuming that it had been broken by me and it
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1 hadn't really been fixed.
Ok so now from no glass to a few pieces of glass & John says he was trying to verify that the broken window was from him. He was looking for something that would indicate a fresh break...lots of glass and not just a little bit.....
JUNE 1998
19 MIKE KANE: That's fine. I understand. Okay.
20 You said that when you went down in the basement
21 that second time with Fleet, and you were back in
22 that room, you were looking for glass on the
23 floor. Why were you?
24 JOHN RAMSEY: I was just trying to verify
25 in my own mind that I had in fact broken the
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1 window last summer and it was cleaned up and this
2 wasn't the break I was looking for. If there was a
3 lot of glass there.
4 MIKE KANE: Okay.
5 JOHN RAMSEY: Because I wasn't sure that
6 that window -- well I did know it hadn't been
7 fixed. But it didn't totally surprise me that it
8 hadn't been.
In these below interview John confirms again he closed the window on his first trip to the basement and he also tells Fleet he closed the window earlier on.
JUNE 1998
JOHN RAMSEY: I just wanted to start
6 logically from the bottom up, I guess, as I was
7 looking at it. And I could have just as easily
8 gone upstairs, but I went down. Probably just
9 logically going through every inch of the house.
10 So I went down to the basement. I went into this
11 room with Fleet. I explained to him that this
12 window had been cracked open and I CLOSED IT. That
13 the window was broken, but I think it was broken
14 by me once before. We got down on our hands and
15 knees looking for some glass just to see.
16 LOU SMIT: What did you find?
17 JOHN RAMSEY: I think we found a few fragments
18 of glass not enough to indicate that it was a
19 fresh break.
20 LOU SMIT: What did you do with those fragments?
21 JOHN RAMSEY: We might have put them on the
22 ledge, if I remember. It really wasn't much. We
23 had only found one or two. We might have put them
24 up here on the ledge.
25 LOU SMIT: Could you have put them on the
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1 suitcase?
2 JOHN RAMSEY: Ahhhh, it's possible but I
3 don't remember doing that.
4 LOU SMIT: Was the suitcase, when you came
5 back, in the same spot it was when you had been?
6 JOHN RAMSEY: I think I moved it to see or
7 to look for glass then. But I think it was where I
8 left it, where it was when I was down there
9 before.
JUNE 1998
1 JOHN RAMSEY: But it was open and there
2 was
3 a suitcase under it. This hard Samsonite suitcase.
4 LOU SMIT: Describe how the suitcase was
5 positioned?
6 JOHN RAMSEY: It was against the wall. I think
7 the handle was on top. It was directly under the
8 window, as I recall. And I closed the window, I
9 don't know why, but I closed it. And then --
10 LOU SMIT: When you closed it, did you lock
11 it or close it?
12 JOHN RAMSEY: I latched it. There's a little
13 latch on it.
14 LOU SMIT: And you're sure of that?
15 JOHN RAMSEY: Pretty sure, yeah. Yeah, I am
16 sure. I don't think I looked anywhere else. I
17 think at that point I still was trying to figure
18 out how they'd get in the house.
JUNE 1998
12 JOHN RAMSEY: Just this little latch. But
13 what I did specifically notice was the suitcase
14 sitting under the window. That was not -- that
15 didn't fit. I could explain why the window was
16 broken or why it might have been partly open, but
17 the suitcase just kind of jumped out at me.
JUNE 1998
23 JOHN RAMSEY: I don't really remember. I mean,
24 part of what is going on you're in such a state of
25 disbelief this can even happen. And the, you know,
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1 the window had been broken out. And you say hah,
2 that's it. But it was a window that I had used to
3 get into the house before. It was cracked and open
4 a little bit. It wasn't terribly unusual for me.
5 Sometimes it would get opened to let cool air in
6 because that basement could get real hot in
7 winter. So it was like, you know, after I thought
8 about it, I thought it was more of an alarming
9 situation how it struck me at the time. It was
10 still sort of explainable to me that it could have
11 been left open.
12 And the suitcase was unusual. That shouldn't have
13 been there. I took that suitcase downstairs, I
14 remember. But I sure wouldn't have taken it all
15 the way back there and put it against the window.
JUNE 1998
24 JOHN RAMSEY: Because the window was cracked
25 open. There was this large suitcase under it, as
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1 if it was used to climb out. That suitcase didn't
2 belong there. I think the person was in the house,
3 if not when we got home, shortly after. I think
4 she was killed that night, versus in the morning.
December 12, 2001
23 Q. Do you remember exactly the sequence
24 of events when you went down to the basement the
25 second time?
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1 A. Uh-huh (affirmative).
2 Q. Can you tell me where you looked?
3 A. I went back into the train room,
4 showed Fleet the broken window, explained to him
5 that I might have broken it myself months ago.
6 I showed him the suitcase that I saw under the
7 window, which I felt was very out of place.
8 We looked for any large pieces of
9 broken glass. And then I got up and went to
10 the cellar room, opened the door, and found
11 JonBenet.
So Far we have 3 separate occasions where John says he closed the window on the first trip. He also tells Fleet he Closed the window.
Following in sequence with John's Interviews/Versions the window is now/already shut when he enters the basement wit Fleet
John states that they both look for glass and what they find is not very much at all. It wasn't enough to indicate to him it was a fresh break. He also says he doesn't remember if they put any glass on the suitcase or ledge.
According to John he was trying to think logically & determine how someone could have got in but saw NOTHING else out of the ordinary other suitcase beneath it. He could justify why the window was broken and why the window was open.
John Ramsey Deposition - Wolf Case - December 12, 2001
20 Q. Prior to Linda Arndt asking you to
21 look around the house, how many times did you go
22 to the basement?
23 A. Once.
24 Q. Do you remember at what time in the
25 morning you went to the basement?
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1 A. I do not.
2 Q. Do you remember what you saw in the
3 basement when you went down there?
4 A. I saw a partially opened window with
5 broken glass and a suitcase beneath the window.
6 Q. When you would -- did you see
7 anything else there?
8 A. Not that looked out of the ordinary.
9 Q. May I ask why you went to the
10 basement at that time?
11 A. I was trying to determine how someone
12 could have gotten into our house.
13 Q. Did anyone ask you to go to the
14 basement at that time?
15 A. No.
16 Q. Do you know if anybody saw you go to
17 the basement at that time?
18 A. I have no idea.
19 Q. When you saw that the basement was in
20 the condition that it was in, as you have just
21 described it, and you came back upstairs, did you
22 inform anybody of what you found in the basement?
23 A. I don't recall specifically if I did
24 or not. I have a vague recollection of telling
25 Linda Arndt that I found an open window with
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Interview date: December 12, 2001
9 Q. May I ask why you went to the
10 basement at that time?
11 A. I was trying to determine how someone
12 could have gotten into our house.
13 Q. Did anyone ask you to go to the
14 basement at that time?
15 A. No.
16 Q. Do you know if anybody saw you go to
17 the basement at that time?
18 A. I have no idea.
19 Q. When you saw that the basement was in
20 the condition that it was in, as you have just
21 described it, and you came back upstairs, did you
22 inform anybody of what you found in the basement?
23 A. I don't recall specifically if I did
24 or not. I have a vague recollection of telling
25 Linda Arndt that I found an open window with
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1 broken glass, but that I perhaps had broken that
2 glass myself months earlier.
3 Q. Do you think you might have mentioned
4 that to any other law enforcement officer beside
5 Linda Arndt?
6 A. Not that I recall.
He only has a vague recollection of telling Linda Arndt about the window and doesn't recall telling anyone else. REGARDLESS if he told Linda/Police about the window it's safe to say from his recollections it wasn't a EURIKA moment in him thinking to himself 'THIS IS THE SPOT' quick let's get someone down here. By the sounds of it, it wasn't a big deal such as Hey I think I've found how they got in or out. It was more I have found an open window with broken glass but I remember doing that myself so it's ok kind of thing.....
In John Ramsey's book THE OTHER SIDE OF SUFFERING P12 - John Ramsey says he suddenly remembers the window he broke last year & rushes to the basement to check. When he finds it wide open he then rushes upstairs to tell one of the policemen about the broken window. He can barely something and is sick to his stomach.
Whether or not he told Police, he noted the open window later on in the book P15 (whilst in the basement with Fleet) he says his friend didn't tell him he had already noted the open window when he was down here earlier & John starts to feel dizzy
Why would John start to feel dizzy about an open window he already knew about and closed himself?
I don't know who goes down to the basement first but if you have fleet going down and noting the open window to himself. Then either before or after this John goes down and also notes the open window. It doesn't make sense at all?
In TOSOS John Ramsey says:
I show my friend the broken window which is still open, the small splinters of glass on the floor and the suitcase. This isn't right. The suitcase shouldn't be here.
I don't get this either, he says the suitcase shouldn't be there but what about the glass that shouldn't be there.
On numerous occasions he says he was looking for how they got in/out. Fresh breaks etc.
John says he was working logically. How can glass that was broken months ago by him end up on a suitcase that was wasn't meant to be there in the first place?
How does he justify seeing glass broken six months ago on top a suitcase that was placed there 25th/26th according to him?
