Thursday - August 17, 2006

Justice Or Hoax?

I smell a rat. Not a murdering rat. A sick, publicity-seeking rat. I could be wrong. It wouldn’t be the first time. Something just doesn’t ring true about this goober’s story. He says he had sex with the little girl before killing her - yet there was no evidence of sexual activity on the girl’s body at the time. His obsession with the Ramsey family, a flood of e-mails to the Ramseys and finally his ex-wife pops up and says he was in Alabama with her at the time of the murder. Sorry, my bullshit meter just overloaded.

This whole story and confession literally reeks of publicity stunt by a deranged pervert. Well, he’ll get his fifteen minutes of fame and a free plane ride back home to the US. Maybe even a book deal and a made-for-TV movie. Then a straitjacket and a padded room all to himself. After the media feeding frenzy has died down, Jon Benet’s murderer will probably still be out there somewhere.

Former Teacher Claims He Killed JonBenet
_{BANGKOK, Thailand (AP)—Aug 17, 8:39 AM (ET)}

A former American school teacher said publicly Thursday he was with JonBenet Ramsey when she was killed and called the 6-year-old’s death “an accident,” a stunning admission that should help answer 10 years of questions in the unsolved murder case. “I am so very sorry for what happened to JonBenet,” he told The Associated Press.

John Mark Karr, 41, will be taken within the week to Colorado, where he will face charges of first degree murder, kidnapping and child sexual assault, Ann Hurst of the Department of Homeland Security told a news conference in Bangkok.

“I was with JonBenet when she died,” Karr told reporters afterward, visibly nervous and stuttering as he spoke. “Her death was an accident.” Asked if he was innocent of the crime, Karr said: “No.”

Later, as he was escorted to his guesthouse to pick up his belongings, he told the AP: “I am so very sorry for what happened to JonBenet. It’s very important for me that everyone knows that I love her very much, that her death was unintentional, that it was an accident.”

Asked what happened when JonBenet died, he said: “It would take several hours to describe that. It’s a very involved series of events that would involve a lot of time. It’s very painful for me to talk about it.”

Karr also told the AP he contacted JonBenet’s mother, Patsy Ramsey, before her death in June and that he wrote her letters about “many things.” He said he hoped that she received the letters. Karr confessed to the killing after his arrest Wednesday at his downtown Bangkok guesthouse by Thai and American authorities, said Lt. Gen. Suwat Tumrongsiskul, head of Thailand’s immigration police.

He said Karr insisted his crime was not first-degree murder but that JonBenet died during a kidnapping attempt that went awry. “He said it was second-degree murder. He said it was unintentional,” Suwat said. “He said he loved this child, that he was in love her. He said she was very pretty, a pageant queen. She was the school star, she was very cute and sweet.”

Karr declined to say what his connection was to the Ramsey family. Dressed in a turquoise polo shirt and khaki trousers, he appeared ashen with an expressionless look on his face. An attorney for the Ramsey family said Wednesday that Karr once lived near the family in Conyers, Ga.

But a Petaluma, Calif., woman who said she was Karr’s ex-wife told KGO-TV in San Francisco that she was with him in Alabama at the time of JonBenet’s death. Lara Karr said her ex-husband spent a lot of time reading up on the cases of Ramsey and Polly Klaas, who was abducted from her Petaluma home and slain in 1993.

- More on the story here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/17/2006 at 01:15 PM   
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