John Ramsey ripped the duct tape from JB’s mouth when he found her.
Burke wasn’t said to have shoes that brand. There was another unidentified footprint too -
From the Lou Smit deposition, Carnes ruling:
A....The footprints that are in the basementare a very big clue. There are unidentified footprints in the basement in the mold on the floor.
The photograph that I am showing here is an impression in the mold on the floor. If you read it, it says "Hi-Tec." There is a logo on the bottom of that shoe. It is a Hi-Tec shoe. This was left there. This is a very clear and distinct logo that is left in that mold.
This is another footprint that was located right near where the body was lying, right almost at the part where the body was lying. In fact, if you look very closely at the photograph, you are going to see a disturbance in the mold from a fabric and also a fabric pattern, possibly the elastic waistband of the pants worn bt JonBenet.
Right in that same area is a very distinct footprint. I believe this is a footprint of the killer. This is a very crisp, clear print. I have found from experiments with the mold that, if the mold is allowed to grow, and this mold does grow, that a footprint that is there for any length of time becomes fuzzy and very blurred and finally disappears. This footprint is very, very recent.
This is a close-up of that print just to show all of the little ridges and all of the little lines that are so distinctive on this particular print. It also shows a partial logo. Myself and others have tried to find the source of that logo and have been unable to do it so far.
This is, I believe, our killer's footprint for sure.
That is the leaf. And you will notice it is on top of the print.
We have no idea what time it was when Burke put his hands on the glass. Could’ve been before bed. Could’ve been that morning. We don’t know.