

2006-07-07: “JonBenet: Anatomy of a Cold Case"

Directed by Lawrence Schiller (Court Tv)



VOICE OVER: "Then months after the murder, an investigator examining photographs of the crime scene noticed a bowl on the breakfast room table. The police had always assumed it contained cereal but when they took a closer look at it's contents which had been preserved, they found pineapple."



Tom Haney: and you'd said earlier you'd cleaned off the table after breakfast?

Patsy: I cleaned off the table.

Tom Haney: so that, that wasn't there.

Patsy: hm-mm. No. I've not seen that.

Patsy: I did not feed JonBenet pineapple.

Patsy: So I don't know how it got in her stomach,

Patsy: and I don't know where this bowl of pineapple came from.

Patsy: I can't recall putting that there.



VOICE OVER: "The pineapple only deepened the mystery. No one could pinpoint a motive for the Ramseys to lie about it. And it didn't seem to fit the intruder theory either."



Schiller: "If Jonbenet ate the pineapple after she came back from the the Whites does that mean she was sitting there eating the pineapple with somebody she knew? That she was eating it alone because it's a very chilling feeling to know that she sat eating pineapple with the person who might be responsible for her death. And that chilling feeling is one of the things that has haunted this case."



VOICE OVER: "Kept from the public until now is the fact that a glass containing a tea bag was photographed next to the bowl of pineapple. How did it get there? And was the tea and the pineapple consummed at the same time?"



Patsy: But I did not do this. If she ate that, somebody put that there.

Patsy: I can never recall putting a tea bag like that, in a cup. Okay.

Patsy: So I don't know, what the answer is.



VOICE OVER: "According to police files none of the Ramseys friends or any member of the Ramsey family had any idea who prepared or served the tea. During the investigation, the crime lab found Patsy and her ten year old son, Burke's fingerprints on the bowl and Burke's on the glass of tea, adding to the mystery."



Henry Lee (Forensic Scientist): "Another area I'm always curious is whether DNA on the glass and on the bowl and particular the spoon, not only the eating area but also the handle."



VOICE OVER: "But according to the investigators, no DNA test have ever been conducted on the spoon , bowl or glass."