DNA of an unknown male found in 4 places, on JB’s body/clothing from touch and from saliva. Duct tape, a kind that had only begun to be manufactured in November 1996, that did not match the tape in the Ramsey home. Marks found on JonBenet from a stun gun. A footprint, a palm print, and another footprint. Two kinds of animal fur, one beaver, one unknown, that could not be matched to anything in the home. Red fibers that, although acrylic, were not from Patsy’s jacket since it was red, black, and grey. Metal fragment under JB’s fingernails that could not be matched to anything. Cigarette butts, the metal baseball bat, the climbing rope, the cord used for the ligature that could not be matched to anything in the home. Staging: the Bible, the dictionary, the Esprit article, the naked life-size doll posed in the playroom window and, of course, the ransom note. The butt print, the print on top of the basement toilet, the canvas bag in the crawl space, the scratch marks on the elevator door. The blond young man, the mysterious lights seen in the kitchen, and the light that was always on but for the first time it wasn’t.

The Ransom Note.