Posted on 08/16/2006 6:04:02 PM PDT by Shermy
PETALUMA (KRON) -- It now appears the only person ever arrested in connection with the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey once taught in Petaluma schools.
The Sonoma County district attorney's office is now confirming 42-year old John Mark Karr was charged with possession of child pornography in April, 2001. Other reports indicate Karr served as a substitute teacher in the Petaluma elementary school system.
Prosecutors say Karr failed to show in court in December, 2001. He's been a fugitive ever since.
Thai police arrested Karr Wednesday in connection with the Jon Benet Ramsey case. The little girl was found dead in her Boulder, Colorado home the day after Christmas, 1996.
I thought there had been no demands, but we don't know what is going on "behind the scenes"
I just hope they get released soon, unharmed.
Well, not to get too liberal or anything, but assuming this kid is the guy's son, I certainly can see his hatred being a result of his father's actions. While we don't know yet that his dad killed JonBenet, it does seem pretty clear given went on in California and Thailand that his father is at very least a pedophile.
Didn't you hear ABC report the DNA was a match?
Was that confirmed?
Yeah, I don't get it. Of course, the brother and ex-wife could be mistaken. Maybe it was the following Christmas or maybe he only slipped out of town for a day or day and 1/2 and no one knew he was gone?
I think I was brainwashed by the death metal music coming from his site.
That resume of his creeped me out talking about giving those little gir;s baths, and getting them dressed and onto school. Why would anyone allow a STRANGE MAN into their home to take care of their little kids?? It is a recipe for disaster.
I haven't heard that.
Have to wait for more details to come out.
Well, obviously at least one of them is mistaken or covering up for him if one says he was in Alabama and the other says he was in Georgia at the time.
Not buying that info about the DNA matching just yet.
That is right, KARR is a GREAT GUY... ;-)
I don't think that's him. Doesn't look like the picture they showed on tv and his brother said he went to a small college in Alabama or something.( someplace in the south, not NY)
How did he know where to go?
If he's doing this stuff oversease and using teaching as a way to get to kids, couldn't he be telling lies about his educational background?
Don't know yet if he'd been following her beauty pagents or what.
Sure
JonBenet was found lying in the middle of the basement floor wrapped in a blanket. She had duct tape across her mouth. She lay with her arms above her head and a white cord was wrapped tightly around her neck. The same cord was tied loosely to her wrists. The broken handle of a paintbrush, measuring approximately 4.5 inches in length, had been looped into the cord to form a garrote. At the time of her death, JonBenet was wearing a sweatshirt over a long sleeve shirt. The lower half of her body was clad in white pajama bottoms over white panties.
There was a thin gold ring on the middle finger of her right hand and a bracelet with her name engraved on one side and the date "12/25/96" on the other. A red heart was drawn on the palm of her left hand. Around her neck was a gold chain with a single gold cross attached. The evidence suggests that either someone took the girl from her bedroom by force, or lured her to the kitchen with the promise of food, which would explain the undigested remnants of pineapple found in her stomach at the time of her death. She was then taken to the basement, had tape placed over her mouth and bound with the nylon cord. She was then sexually assaulted after which she was strangled with the garrote and bashed about the head. The killer or killers then wrote out a two and a half page "ransom" note on a pad from the house demanding $118,000 and left it at the foot of the staircase.
If this theory is correct, then the killer would have to be someone who:
* is familiar with the layout of the house.
* knows the Ramseys personally enough to know that John Ramsey received a bonus of $118,000.
* is small enough to have gained entry via a narrow basement window and possibly exited the same way.
* was confident enough to spend the time to not only commit the offence, but have the presence of mind to write a long note in an attempt to draw suspicion away from himself.
Former FBI agent and expert criminal profiler, Robert Ressler believes that: -
* JonBenet knew her killer
* the killer could have come from a small circle of friends around the Ramsey home in Boulder
* the circle would include family, neighbors, and employees of the Ramseys.
family friend Fleet White who had been with Ramsey when he discovered his daughter's body in the basement of their home.
He (John Ramsey) also revealed that he had not spoken with Fleet White or any member of his family for some time and did not know why the Whites had broken off all contact.
They believe that the killer entered their home while they were at a Christmas evening dinner at the home of Fleet and Priscilla White and believe the intruder may have known the layout of the home after touring it during an Historic Boulder Homes Tour in Christmas 1994 and could have become aware of John's business successes through local newspaper stories.
On April 9, Steve Thomas, one of the former lead detectives in the Ramsey case, also stepped into the media arena when he appeared on ABC's Good Morning America saying he believed that Patsy Ramsey wrote the ransom note. Thomas, who had previously resigned in protest to what he called the "lack of aggressive prosecution of the case," was appearing on the show to promote his own book on the case called JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation.
During the interview, Thomas described how out of 73 suspects whose writing samples were analyzed by experts in comparison with the note, Patsy Ramsey was the only one who could not be excluded as its author.
Another point that Thomas made was that the ransom note was signed "S.B.T.C." which allegedly stands for what the note described as "a small foreign faction" that had kidnapped JonBenet for a $118,000 ransom. Thomas indicated that this fact also pointed to Patsy Ramsey as she often used acronyms. He cited a Christmas note to a friend that was signed "P.P.R.B.S.J.," which she said stood for "Patsy Paugh Ramsey, Bachelor of Science in Journalism." He also said the tear pattern of the ransom-note paper matched Patsy Ramsey's personal note pad, and the felt-tip pen used to write the note matched a pen found in a cup in the Ramseys' kitchen.
Another point of suspicion, Thomas felt, was when Ramsey said she found the note on the back stairs when police had found it on the hardwood floor.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/graphics/photos/notorious_murders/famous/ramsey/12a.jpg
"Have you seen this man? This man may have been in the Boulder area in December 1996. ... We firmly believe that this most horrible of killers will be caught based on information provided by people who care about right and wrong. ... Please help, so another innocent child will not be a victim and another family will not suffer unbearable grief."
http://tinyurl.com/9vhw2
The police shared all info with the Ramsey's attorneys also.....who knows who they told. I'm not yet convinced this is the killer and if they can't place him in Boulder on that night, well.......he'd be just another pedophile with child pornography....getting more and more common every day, sadly.
What's FNN?
Oh, I just figured it out!
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