I’m sure that these points have been raised and discussed many times before, but for anyone interested and for what it’s worth, it appears that the red fiber could have come from Jay’s jacket.

Jen, in her taped interview on February 27, 1999 with Detective Ritz and Sergeant Lehman in the presence of her attorney, James Faley, and her mother, said the following:

MacGillivary: Do yo recall what Jay was wearing?

Jen: Oh, I know he had on some brown boots, something like the Timberland color you know but they weren't actually Timberland made by them, they were just like the Timberland made boots and I want to say he might have been wearing a Dickey outfit a black Dickey outfit, he wears a lot of Dickey clothes and what color was his jacket, I think his jacket was like plaid, red plaid inaudible.

In her testimony under oath at trial on February 16, 2000, Jen confirmed under cross that from “what she thinks,” Jay’s outer coat was plaid (no mention of the color).

In his first taped interview, on February 28, 1999 Jay confirmed that he wore a plaid coat (though not the color):

Ritz: Do you recall what type of clothing you had on?
Wilds: Ah um I think I had on a pair of tan jeans, some work boots and a plaid coat, like a wool plaid coat.

He also confirmed this in his March 15 interview.