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All my JBR notes are scattered on many disks and CDs and not easily found - that's where I have the answers to the paintbrush question.

I tried to google just now and see if I could find the brush size and measurements in another forum where we all worked on this, but didn't see that anyone had them easily available - I'm sure they're in an archive somewhere.

We had to piece together the length, from knowing the size of the garotte handle, then having to estimate the size of the brush end found in Patsy's tote, without being able to see the whole thing in the crime scene photo or having anything relational for comparison.

That would've given us the length of the missing piece which was most likely used to assault JonBenet sexually. So, I'm not even going to try to hazard a guess as to the exact brush we all bought and used for the experiments.

I bought some similar ones in a cheap package to do the breaking. If you think it's easy to break a 10" paint brush about 1/2" in diameter into three pieces, go ahead and try it. Especially try to make the 3 pieces equal the lengths we know about for those pieces. It's very hard.

Of course, the perp wasn't aiming for specific lengths - but I'm sure the "handle" or "Korea" portion needed to be close to the width of his or her hand. A few of the tiny shards were found outside the door to the wine cellar and IIRC, some in the well of the tote itself.

As for a baby monitor, I'm not aware of any being in JonBenet's room and I'm sure it would've been mentioned.

However, they did have an intercom at the front door and I lived in a house in the 1960s that had those built in each room, so it's possible they had a whole intercom system throughout the house, but no one ever confirmed that for me when I kept asking that question and I never saw the speakers in other rooms in the photos.

No one knows for sure when the perp wrote the note or left it on the stairs, so no one knows for sure what day "tomorrow" was supposed to be. It could have been found in the middle of the night and meant "go back to bed for a while."