It was her Barbie night gown. She just had barely outgrown the My Size Barbie - those are usually for 3-5 year olds - they wear the same clothes as the child. But JonBenet was a little small and kept on wearing it for good luck at next-day pageants, even though Patsy thought it was ratty.
I'm really not a whole lot taller than a My Size Barbie myself, actually.
I apologize in advance for the format below but this is how it comes:
9 LOU SMIT: Can I touch just 10 a little bit before you move on. It's the 11 nightgown. JonBenet, did she own a life- 12 sized Barbie nightgown -- life-sized 13 Barbie doll? 14 JOHN RAMSEY: Yeah. 15 LOU SMIT: She did, big one? 16 JOHN RAMSEY: It was about that 17 tall maybe. 18 LOU SMIT: Did she used to 19 dress this Barbie nightgown in any type of 20 -- I keep saying nightgown, Barbie doll in 21 any type of clothing? 22 JOHN RAMSEY: She probably did 23 when she first got it. I don't remember that 24 she played with it much. I mean I can remember 25 the thing just sitting in the corner or 0685 1 something. 2 LOU SMIT: Where is the 3 Barbie doll kept normally, if you could 4 show us? 5 JOHN RAMSEY: Well, my memory of 6 is that -- oh, man, I can't find where we are at 7 here. Where is the second floor? I remember it 8 kind of sitting against the wall back here in 9 her room. 10 LOU SMIT: In her bedroom? 11 JOHN RAMSEY: In her bedroom. 12 I think that's the last time I remember seeing 13 it, which might have been, you know, months 14 before. I don't know. 15 LOU SMIT: We have heard 16 that a Barbie nightgown was one of her 17 favorite nightgowns. What can you tell us 18 about that? 19 JOHN RAMSEY: I think she had a 20 Barbie nightgown, yeah, as I recall. Pink, 21 maybe. 22 LOU SMIT: The night you put 23 her in bed, do you remember anything about 24 a Barbie nightgown? 25 JOHN RAMSEY: When I put 0686 1 her to bed she had on, when I laid her 2 down in the bed, she had on what she had 3 worn to the Whites. She had that same 4 shirt on when I found her. 5 LOU SMIT: What I am trying 6 to say, John, is where would that Barbie 7 nightgown have been? 8 JOHN RAMSEY: It would have either 9 been in her bathroom drawer here, which a lot of 10 them were kept. 11 LOU SMIT: Under the sink? 12 JOHN RAMSEY: By the sink, I 13 believe. It could have been on the floor or it 14 would have been in the washing machine. That's 15 probably only three places it would have been. 16 LOU SMIT: I would like to 17 show you photograph number 145, and this 18 is a photograph of the wine cellar and it 19 was taken at after the body was found. 20 But John, I would like you just to take 21 look at this, and again difficult 22 photograph, but tell us what you see. 23 JOHN RAMSEY: Well, that's looking 24 in the room from the door, I see the blanket 25 that looks like the one that was around her. 0687 1 There is a pink something, pink -- I think 2 that's the nightgown or. 3 LOU SMIT: That's what I was 4 going to inquire about. It is a 5 nightgown, it is a pink one, it is a 6 Barbie nightgown? 7 JOHN RAMSEY: It looks like 8 it's a shinier material than I remember. 9 (INAUDIBLE). That looks more like what I 10 kind of remember was on the Barbie doll 11 itself. 12 LOU SMIT: That one does? 13 JOHN RAMSEY: Right. If I had to 14 speculate, that looks too shiny, the material, 15 but it seems to me I remember that Barbie doll 16 had a shiny pink nightgown thing on it. 17 LOU SMIT: Why do you think, 18 John, that that's down here? I mean -- 19 JOHN RAMSEY: Yeah, I don't. 20 It certainly should not be. I don't 21 remember seeing it. But I was pretty 22 focused, I guess, at that time. 23 LOU SMIT: Again, you had mentioned 24 the fact that the blanket had been wrapped 25 around her almost like, what did you describe it 0688 1 as? 2 JOHN RAMSEY: Well, she looked 3 very, like someone had very carefully placed her 4 on the blanket, wrapped the blanket around her 5 to keep her warm. 6 LOU SMIT: And then we have a 7 Barbie or a nightgown. There is just 8 suggestions that are made to that, and 9 what's your opinion of that, and what's 10 your impression? 11 JOHN RAMSEY: God, I can only 12 imagine it. That that was something very 13 perverted. 14 LOU SMIT: That's good 15 enough. Unless you have other thoughts or 16 comments on that, John? 17 JOHN RAMSEY: No. The only 18 thought I had, normally the winter, JonBenet's 19 nightgowns were cloth and they weren't those 20 silky, because they weren't very warm. And they 21 were always a cloth or a flannel kind of 22 material. That looks like a silky kind of 23 nightgown, and -- I don't even know she had -- 24 see, my recollection is Barbie nightgown, she 25 had a lot of these little nightgowns with faces 0689 1 on them and stuff, and I kind of remember a 2 Barbie one, but it was like a cloth nightgown 3 that had printed, a printed Barbie face on it or 4 something. 5 LOU SMIT: And this was more 6 like the one on the doll? 7 JOHN RAMSEY: That looks more 8 dressy. That looks like something that might 9 have been on the doll. 10 LOU SMIT: Mike, do you have 11 anything? 12 MIKE KANE: No. 13 LOU SMIT: Well then, I think we 14 can take, just let this grow into that.