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the Ramsey phone so that the source of any incoming phone calls for ransom could be traced.
    While French remained with the parents, Reichenbach conducted an interior inspection of all three floors of the home, including the basement, and he did not notice any credible point of entry that drew his attention. He noted that at the far end of the basement was a white door secured at the top by a block of wood that pivoted on a screw. Reichenbach tried to open the door, but stopped when it was apparent that it would not have been either a point of entry or exit from the home.
    During his inspection of the second floor, Reichenbach observed that the door to Burke’s bedroom was open, and the lights were off. He moved quietly into the room, and Burke appeared to be asleep beneath the covers of his bed. Exiting, Reichenbach closed the door “nearly all the way” to prevent downstairs noise from awakening the boy.
    Following a walk-through of the home, Reichenbach then conducted a cursory search of the exterior and observed “frost on the grass and a little bit of snowfall” on exposed areas of the lawn. He noted that no one other than himself had walked through these areas.
    Reichenbach noted that no snow had adhered to the rear patio and walkways. The driveway was wet but no foot prints / tracks were visible, and he observed no fresh signs of forced entry to exterior doors and windows.
    After hanging up on the 911 dispatcher, Patsy Ramsey found the composure to make two additional phone calls. Family friends John and Barbara Fernie, as well as Fleet and Priscilla White were hurriedly summoned to the home. She told her friends that there was an emergency and that she needed them at her home. She had not told them that JonBenét had been kidnapped and that she needed their support.
    It was close to 6:30 a.m. when the Fernies arrived and, from outside the rear kitchen / patio door, John Fernie was able to observe the ransom note still spread out on the floor of the hallway next to the kitchen.
    Not long thereafter, Fleet and Priscilla White were the next family friends to arrive at the Ramsey home. Fleet White reported that within approximately 15 minutes of his arrival, he made a quick inspection of the basement of the home. He was purportedly the third person to visit the basement at that point of the morning.†
    It should be noted that White’s daughter, Daphne, had gone missing about a year earlier, and she was eventually found hiding in their home. Despite the existence of the ransom note in this instance, he took it upon himself to check the basement for JonBenét. He is the only person of record who called out her name as he searched the home that morning.
    White observed a window to the Train Room to be closed and unlatched, and he was immediately drawn to the area. A particular upper left quadrant of the window was broken and it was large enough, about the size of a baseball that a person could reach through the space to unlock the window latch inside. Sections of fractured glass were missing from this part of the window, and he inspected the area closely for the remnants of these pieces.
    He moved a hard-sided Samsonite suitcase that was standing beneath the window to look for broken glass. He didn’t find any. The larger pieces of glass pane had already been removed, and it was subsequently determined that John Ramsey had broken the window and entered through that space when locked out of the house the previous summer. The glass from that breakage had been cleaned up, but the window had never been repaired.
    White did find a small single kernel of glass on the floor, an apparent remnant from John Ramsey’s earlier entry. He placed this on the ledge of the window frame and, leaving the window in its original condition, moved on to complete his survey of the basement.
    White then moved from the Train Room to the white door of the Wine Cellar and, unlatching the wood block, partially opened the door to that room.