stlnative posted a link earlier to a timeline:
http://www.acandyrose.com/timeline-transcripts1996.htm
It shows that the Ramseys indeed threw a Christmas party on December 23rd, one in which Bill McReynolds played Santa. McReynolds was also being featured by the Daily Camera and Charles Kuralt at the time because of his Santaesque appearance.
The guest list for the party was made available. Somehow I doubt Karr was on it yet I am curious if there were uninvited guests due to the media tagging along with McReynolds, people the Ramseys might not have recognized but presumed they were members of the media.
All that, of course, is public record so it would be easy for Karr to claim this after the fact with just a little online research. There's going to need to be forensic evidence to back up his claim.
Now IF Karr attended the party and then came back to murder JBR two nights later, that would mean he had to stay somewhere else for a couple of days in the interim. Where?
He's last KNOWN to be elsewhere on Decenber 19th, his last day teaching in Alabama. So, how did he get to Boulder? How could he be gone for several days, including Christmas, without his wife being aware of it? How did he know there would be a party that night? How did he get there? Where did he go when he was not at the Ramseys? When did he leave Boulder? How long did it take him to return to Alabama?
Keep in mind that, on the night of the murder, it was NINE degrees outside so let's not guess he was sleeping on park benches. He had to be somewhere for this story to be true.
Most people with busy schedules post their schedule on a visible calendar...My sister's on her kitchen wall. Mine is next to my desk......Pretty easy and accessible.
Also, what would he have done if he had returned two days later and found the window had been shut? What of the Ramseys' home intrusion alarm? Even if they forgot to set it on Christmas (as the Ramseys have said), would they have forgotten to set it three nights in a row?
Yes, but we on this thread have been told emphatically by fellow FReepers who seemed to know that there was no such party. That there was in '95, not 'in 96.
To me it is HUGE that this has been turned on its head, so that now you seem to accept it as fact but are raising lots more questions about how could he have accomplished this.
Ok, questions, I can understand.
But I'm still trying to TAKE IN that there was a party. I had always thought that to be true back near the murder aftermath, but was willing to drop it if proven wrong.
Now...this. My head is spinning.
This has already been refuted numerous times, but I'll post it again.
The party on 12/23/96 was a small party of family friends, very small party - every single person there was known to someone else there.
There were NO strangers at this party.
They were the inner circle of adult friends of the Ramseys and the child friends of JonBenet's and Burke's.
Fleet and Priscilla White, their children Fleet III and Daphne; Priscilla's sister Alison Schoeny; her boyfriend Clif Gaston; Alison's daughter and her husband, the Coxes; Susan and Glen Stine and the mother of each of them, plus their child; the Barbers and their little girls; the Barnhills from across the street.
Their cleaning lady, Linda Hoffman-Pugh and her daughter were also there for part of it. The boarder from across the street at the Barnhills came by briefly to say that JonBenet's dog was barking back at their house, where he was kept.
Santa Bill McReynolds and his wife came and played Santa, gave out small gifts, read something Patsy wrote for each child. Then they left. Their son who worked at the Safeway bakery had come by in the afternoon and delivered some undecorated gingerbread houses, which Patsy had ordered, for the children to decorate.
The Charles Kuralt film crew did NOT come--they had gotten enough other Santa footage for their special *before* they had a chance to get to the Ramseys' house.
This was the main reason the party had come together in the first place, because Santa Bill had asked them to have it for the benefit of the film crew which was shadowing him that day for a TV special.
There were no extraneous people there.
If I left someone out, going from my memory, I'll correct it after I have time to look it up in my notes.
Karr was NOT there.