Posted on 08/20/2006 5:37:25 AM PDT by Rte66
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This Wendy Nichols, from an article last week?
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/115589281428240.xml&coll=2
"...Friends and classmates roundly described Karr as being extraordinarily bright, but some said he had a dark side as well.
Wendy Nichols, a Hamilton High classmate, said Karr seemed obsessed with children in the years after high school. She kept her own child away from him because he made her uncomfortable, she said.
"He's totally different from `Hickville, Alabama.' He's always been a dark person, a different bird," she said. "He's smart. He's bad smart."
Still, Nichols said many in the community doubt Karr is guilty, despite his confession, broadcast worldwide on CNN..."
Seems strange that she wouldn't have mentioned this last week. I smell a rat looking to extend her 15 minutes..like so many in this case it seems.
Breathless Rita is due up again soon on MSNBC.
Wonder if the friend is still alive or moved or died or disassociated himself from Karr when he heard about the California charges. That would LIKELY mean that the "friend" is a Californian.
John Karr's life doesn't seem to have been under the watchful eye of anyone. It was toooo irregular. Lot's see his 1040's.
Rita was on at the top of this hour, again.
The friend of Karr's from his school days told Rita that Karr spoke to her just a few weeks after JonBenet's murder and basically claimed..."I was there, I did it".
All this time the woman did not choose to believe what he said, but it did keep bothering her (do tell? LOL)
When Karr was arrested in Thailand, she got on the phone to the investigation in Boulder and told them what Karr had said to her.
Now she has told it to Rita. She wasn't shown saying it...apparently she did not want to go on tv. Who knows, maybe she's been asked not to??
I haven't had time to read the most recent posts to me, so apologies if I'm pinging people who heard Rita and already know about this.
I'm sorry, I don't know if the woman Rita spoke with is named Wendy Nichols or not. The woman herself did not appear with Rita. And the woman has reported what she claims to know to the authorities in Boulder. If she's making it up, she'll most likely pay for it one way or another. It's a crime to knowingly lie to an official investigation.
That's kinda what I was thinking. It seems most families don't think much of a family member being absent on important holidays IF they have a good excuse for it. He could have made up just about any story to explain his absence and no one would have likely remembered it.
If it bothered her so much over the years why didn't she report it earlier.....sheeeeeeeesh!
the judge in Karr's case - is going to be the same judge that oversaw the grand jury convened in the 90s.
that is what I'm saying. But I'll tell you if someone I knows tell me they commited a popular crime I'm not sure I'd take them seriously. Maybe that is what happend.
I will say that I find it interesting that Karr has claimed he killed JBR many times over many years. If someone were making it up I doubt they would keep the lie going for year and years. I'm starting to believe Karr did this crime, but waiting for the proof before I pass judgement.
"that is what I'm saying. But I'll tell you if someone I knows tell me they commited a popular crime I'm not sure I'd take them seriously. Maybe that is what happend."
to me, that would depend on how much info and convincing the person was.....maybe Karr has always told whoppers about various things..
>>>That's kinda what I was thinking. It seems most families don't think much of a family member being absent on important holidays IF they have a good excuse for it. He could have made up just about any story to explain his absence and no one would have likely remembered it.>>>
This is very true. I think the family (his brother and ex-wife) are assuming if he did this, he must have just not shown up, which probably wouldn't have been case.
I also keep hearing people say he 'couldn't have done that, it's not his type' excuse. "We know he's mentally disturbed but not THAT mentally disturbed", but I don't know about that. If a person could IMAGINE themselves doing something, couldn't they do it? I mean the THOUGHT of strangling a little girl is enough to repulse 99% of us, but to imagine that you COULD and DID means you have it in you to do it, right?
I'm still just trying to wrap my head around all this myself. I have been fascinated with serial killers and the way they think for years. In the third grade I was reading graphic books about Jack the Ripper and the Black Dahlia because it fascinated me that a human could do that to another human. Life is so precious to me, I try to move bugs outdoors (except poisonous ones, then you are just dead, lol), but I can't imagine harming another human to that extent!! And who would have known... I'm still in shock.
Mystery, she apparently chose the course of hoping he was not telling her the truth.
I don't know how to characterize HOW MUCH it bothered her. Just that of course, it was something that was always there in the back of her mind. Some people put their heads in the sand and are so scared of their own shadow in a situation like that, they become paralyzed to act.
What she should have done is told them in Boulder back when he told her this stuff. Then let THEM worry about whether it was true or not. But she didn't. I swear I've known people who would do the same. I don't get it, but there are people like that.
According to Rita, apparently seeing him arrested and hearing that he's now making these claims to the world, but is being doubted, has given her courage to come forward now (to the Boulder authorities. And Rita has the story, but the woman didn't appear with Rita.)
From your account it does appear that she was/is scared...and only after he's been arrested she had the courage to come forward.......Karr must have been one scary SOB...
Is it just me, or is this response spanking the media??
Yes, I think there is only a very fine line between the point of obsessing and fantasizing about something so vicious and actually doing it. That, of course, assumes we're talking about someone who is obsessed about something like that to the point that it's pathological.
I like to theorize and play 'whodunit' but there is only one thing I'm absolutely certain of in this case. Whoever did that is a monster. I don't have any other word for what I saw in the autopsy photos and the coroner's report. I can't fathom the thought processes of a monster like that.
Even if it was an accident and someone covered it up with a vicious but staged strangulation there is something very 'off' about that mindset. Some have commented that if it was an accident there is no motive for a risky cover-up but I think that really depends on the circumstances: Patsy Ramsey might well call it an accident; a jury might well call it manslaughter. It just depends on how it went down. So, even if it was an 'accident', something is really 'off' about whoever killed her. Somebody was out of their tree.
Think she has a lung disorder?
I was talking about all the different money-making schemes related to Karr acting as if he is the perp - seemingly wanting to be the perp.
I'm sick of technicalities and the "insanity" plea. Almost any sick, horrendous crime can be deemed "insane". Hinckley is a good example.
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