June 1998 John Ramsey Interrogation by Lou Smit and Mike Kane (JonBenet's Bedroom)

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18 LOU SMIT: I'm going to show you another
19 photograph now. And this here is, it came off the
20 video camera. And I do have a larger picture of
21 this. And perhaps you can answer the question and
22 perhaps and perhaps you can't.
23 I would like you to take a look at this
24 photograph. And, again, this one is not numbered.
25 It's just a Sony video print. And I would like to

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1 ask you what that appears to you? And, again, if
2 you don't know what it is, that's fine. And if you
3 do, that's fine. It's not a very good picture.
4 JOHN RAMSEY: It looks like a bag with a
5 plastic container or something in it with a point
6 or two.
7 LOU SMIT: I just don't recall if you had
8 ever seen that item before.
9 JOHN RAMSEY: I can't even tell where it's
10 at for sure. It's a Tupperware cup, but I don't
11 know what it is.
12 LOU SMIT: I'll hold that up to the camera.
13 Okay. This here that I'm going to show you now,
14 John, during the kidnap phase of this there was
15 some photographs taken, and I'm sure this is
16 probably the very first time you've been shown
17 many photographs (INAUDIBLE).
18 And we're doing this for a couple of reasons. And
19 the police are right, you shouldn't show the
20 photographs in an ongoing investigation. But you
21 can show photographs, and I feel that they should
22 be shown because I would like to know. You know
23 your house better than anyone. These are
24 photographs that were taken at a time you hadn't
25 even found JonBenet's body yet.

June 1998 John Ramsey Interrogation by Lou Smit and Mike Kane (JonBenet's Bedroom)

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1 We can't spend a whole great length of time on
2 this, but I would like to spend some time. And I'd
3 like you to just look at the photographs and see
4 if you can see anything that's out of place that
5 don't belong there. Something that may have been
6 taken that's missing. Or something that the killer
7 may have left in the house.
8 A lot of time they'll take things out, but you
9 just don't remember what it is because you haven't
10 taken the photographs, you don't know that.
11 JOHN RAMSEY: Um hmm.
12 LOU SMIT: And that's why, I know my others
13 have discussed this, we decided to show
14 photographs of the scene at this time. And I've
15 got too let you know that the police department
16 did go along with this. So they're not -- I know
17 that there's hard feelings on this. I just want to
18 let you know that.
19 JOHN RAMSEY: Well, as I said earlier, if
20 we're wrong, we owe a lot of apologies.
21 LOU SMIT: I know. I know. Well, I'm just
22 going to -- Mr. Morgan, you can look at it as
23 well. If you see something that you don't
24 understand or something that looks out of place,
25 we'll take notes of this.

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1 JOHN RAMSEY: That is.
2 LOU SMIT: He's pointing to photograph two
3 (INAUDIBLE).
4 JOHN RAMSEY: This photograph two, is
5 (INAUDIBLE) her bed. I don't know where her pillow
6 is. I mean the pillow on her bed.

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(SNIP)

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