Irrelevant if she was wearing them the whole previous evening.
If that's what they did. There has never been a report on this, as far as I know, just impressions by police that looked at it. I could be wrong, of course.
"Patsy's fibers" is a misnomber - they're fibers of the same kind of material as her jacket - but another question is why only the red fibers from the checkered red-and-black coat ended up on the scene.
What business meeting? As far as I can tell, this was just another myth. Schiller writes that John told an officer he was flying to Atlanta and he had something important to attend to. That's not a "business meeting", and I can think of some major matters to deal with when you've lost your child.
It looked similar to the one they had. I don't see the big deal with the maid or others getting them confused.
A knife wasn't used. Neither was a hammer. Burke knew JonBenet had been killed. I think it's futile to read more into it, but then, I've always found the "Burke did it" to be the weakest of the Ramsey-related theories by far.
According to Steve Thomas, who we know misrepresented other parts of the Bernhard interview.
Burke (from Dr Phil interview):
John:
So they're obviously describing the same event. The parents have taken JonBenet upstairs and put her to bed, then John goes down to find Burke who is obsessing over his toy.
I think the idea that Hunter was corrupted by money is absolutely ridiculous.
In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: The police, who investigate crime, and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. (dun dun) And in this case, the two were not working well together. Having read Schiller's book which meticulously gives both sides the chance to speak, I'll say neither side acquitted themselves well, but the majority of my sympathies are with Hunter and his office. They were begging and pleading with the BPD to investigate the case properly, look at every angle and lead because they knew the defense would eviscerate the investigation on trial, and for good reason. But the BPD were just, nah, we know who did it already, and don't tell us how to do our job. Honestly, most blame should go to Eller, who refused to accept help from the outside, notfrom FBI, nor the Denver PD and the Boulder Sheriff's Department. Even with the mess the first responders made, this case could well have been solved within the first months had Eller not been so stubborn. And the funny thing is, the only person I could find who actually seems to have been cowed by the Ramseys' money and status was Eller! He was the one who ordered the police to back off them before he turned on a dime and became their biggest enemy.
I think the most depressing read was from Steve Thomas, when he complains at length about the situation with professor Foster. The good professor had been hired to analyze the ransom note, and so he did, and came to the conclusion that Patsy was absolutely the writer. Thomas saw this as a smoking gun and wanted to put it before the grand jury - the problem was that a year prior, professor Foster had written to Patsy, telling her he was certain she hadn't written the note. He also knew who had - John Andrew Ramsey, provably nowhere close to Boulder that night, who was also posting online under a pseudonym (which turned out to be a middle-aged North Carolina housewife). Now the DAO controls who goes before the grand jury, but at a trial they knew the defense would tear the professor apart - and with good reason, since he obviously wasn't anywhere as adept as he claimed to be. Yet Thomas throws what I can only be described as a tantrum when the DAO won't put Foster before the grand jury.
Hunter may have thought the Ramseys did it, but he was handed an unwinnable hand by the BPD, and did the only reasonable thing he could do - considering both the resources that would be wasted and the justice that would be denied - and folded.
