Wendy Hutchens is the one who turned Karr in for suspected child porn, which resulted in the charges for which he went to jail in 2001.
She lived in Petaluma then and was a case follower of the Polly Klaas case. Karr hooked up with her that way and practiced his obsessing about Polly until he started obsessing on JonBenet.
It got spooky, so Wendy went to LE and they gave her phone recording equipment. She taped over 20 hours of convos with him. Others have been able to hear some of the audio online, but I finally got to hear some of it this morning on GMA. Creeeeeppppy.
He didn't admit or confess to killing JBR, but kept giving Wendy scenarios - in graphic detail - *as if* he were the killer. She wasn't totally familiar with all the ins and out of the Ramsey case and so she thought the things he knew were things that only the perp would know.
I guess the Sonoma Co. authorities didn't quite agree, because the Boulder PD called them about JBR and they couldn't find any connection - but they did find the porn and arrested him for that. She said she called the FBI first, but they haven't been mentioned again in the stories about her, so I guess they bowed out.
And no, the Wendy that got Lin Wood to running his mouth was Wendy Murphy, a former prosecutor who is a type of victim advocate for women and children. She was on the panel on Paula Zahn's show on CNN last night (see the transcript link I put up earlier).
She disputed some things others were putting on Karr, saying John Ramsey could've done them. Her facts were accurate, but delivery was not well-received. You know how we feel about Ann Coulter's bold statements sometimes? Same type of thing. No further comment from me.
About Hutchens turning himmin for the child porn--this is not accurate.
After Karr was let go by the school district, he sent THEM child porn in an email. Guess he was having a hissy fit. So they reported him.
I got this from a reliable news source, but have to go back and check which one.
Wendy Hutchens is a nut.