People are habits of patterns.
The above picture show us Patsy's pattern of placing items at the bottom of the back steps hours before she would leave on a trip so she would not forget some items that she wanted to take with her.
Patsy told the Boulder police that she found a ransom note near the bottom of the back stair. She said she step past the papers or to the right of the papers that was spread across one step. When she step to the main floor, she turn around to take a closer look at what was on the step. The tape interviews show us she turn to the LEFT to look at the papers on the step.
This support that the three page ransom note was laid out from the center post toward the center of the step. This gave her room to step to the outside area of step three and not step on the ransom note paper. Police said there was no foot print found on the ransom note.
She thought the note was left there by the house keeper because she had in the past left messages their before when she needed some thing importance. The house keeper wanted to borrow some money to pay some bills. These papers left on the back steps was a pattern of the house keeper for many years, These notes from a note pad place on the back steps could be monitor from the outside through the kitchen glass service door for weeks, months or years because this is a known pattern. The place of interest is the South side of the neighbor.
Boulder police did not believe Patsy's statement, and said that the ransom note was a fake. They said they have perform testing walking down the back steps and could not step over the pages spread out on the back step with out stepping on the paper as prof that she was not telling the truth. Patsy's story of how she found the ransom note had never change. The crime scene support her statement as fact.
Now Lets look at what happen that morning.
People are right handed or left handed. People also are right foot or left foot when walking down a step. We use a pattern of choice when we do many things. The foot we use to make the first step will be the same each time we walk down a step, it's one of our every day pattern. One foot is stronger that the outer and this will cause a person to walk in a large circle when lost.
If I ask you to stand very close to a brick wall on one foot, you would pick the foot farthest away from the brick wall. This is to stay in balance, the idea all so applies to stepping on a spiral stair system, the rail is like the brick wall. Walking down or up a set of steps uses one foot at a time, and the handrail act like the brick wall for support.
The first step on a spiral step design is to place the first step farthest away from the hand rail for balance.
Any good step design divides the number of steps into a equal amount. The first step is the same height as the next step. The maximum rise in a step design is 8 inches. The Ramsey's back step has 12 pie shape steps made of metal. From the second floor down to the main floor the distance is 104 inches and it takes 12 steps to get to the bottom floor. This step design has 13 riser of 8 inches high, or a total of 104 inches from floor to floor. 13 X 8 = 104 inches. 12 steps, and 13 risers.
The third step up from the bottom floor is 24 inches above the main floor. The round step design makes each step a pie shape with a connecting center post to support the stair system.
When a person walk up or down to a spiral round steps design, they create a pattern to what foot they will use first to step on the first step. Going up can be a diffident foot than going down. This is the person balance patterns.
The starting foot used most of the time is the farthest foot from the hand rail.
Videos have shown us that Patsy uses her left foot when stepping on the first step down. Knowing this pattern about Patsy, we can predict the location of her foot on step three bottom from the bottom. We must count the number of steps down to the third step to see witch foot step on that tread and this will show us her foot imprint location. Did she step on the ransom note or step to the outside of the tread missing stepping on the paper with her shoe.
Starting from the top of the stairs, step one start with her left foot, step two is her right foot, Step 10 is her right foot. This mean that her foot would be to the very outside location of the tread and would not step on the ransom note.
Boulder police tried this many times and that person did step on the edge of the ransom note, their test was use to support that Patsy was telling a lie. The test person should have started from the very top of the steps than starting from the middle of the steps to save time. This mistake in their testing supported that Patsy could not step past the note with out stepping on the paper. Remember, people are rule by patterns. Having patterns in our lives makes room for our brains to hold more information with out overloading the brain. Every person creates their own patterns so the Boulder police test person must start the test at the very top of the spiral stairs as did Patsy that day.
Now you know the rest of the story.
Team JBI
