Even if that window is often opened, that is a silly reason for John to latch that window again. It needed to have been fingerprinted around the frame, for anyone climbing through there they would have had to gab some part of it.
http://www.acandyrose.com/s-evidence-window-grate.htm"TT: Okay. Do you remember if John ever went down to the basement to check any of the windows down there before the police arrived?
PR: You know I, you’re just going to ask him I don’t . . .
TT: Okay."
Part of the New Theory proposes John Ramsey did go toward the basement while Patsy was on the phone to 911.
"TT: Okay. Any reason why that one wasn’t replaced or the pane wasn’t fixed or anything?
PR: No, I don’t know whether I fixed it or didn’t fix it. I can’t remember even trying to remember that, um, I remember when I got back, uh, in the fall, you know . . .
TT: Um hum.
PR: . . .uh, went down there and cleaned up all the glass.
TT: Okay.
PR: I mean I cleaned that thoroughly and I asked Linda to go behind me and vacuum. I mean I picked up every chunk, I mean, because the kids played down there in that back area back there."
It is one thing to pick up the broken bits of glass but what about the gagged bits still in the broken window!