I don't know. I want to see what kind of evidence they have against him. If they have DNA then I'll believe it.
I'd like someone to ask him how well he knew the Ramseys. He clearly was in touch with the guy in Colorado who did the documentary ... and with Patsy.
Lin Wood, who I personally think is human slime (just my opinion) is all over this. And it is interesting that this comes out just immediately after Patsy died.
The ranson note is going to have to be explained. How did he know the exact amount of John's bonus? And other oddities in the note. And the 911 call nags me.
I'm anxious to see what comes out in the next few days. I hope this is the guy but ...
Boy, I really hope this is the guy, but early on I'm having my doubts.
So far I haven't seen any news reports that indicate he has even been to Colorado (no jobs listed, etc.) and his wife seemed pretty definite when she said he was at their home that Christmas.
Any chance that these 'unknown details' this guy is supposed to know about the murder were given to him (even accidentally) by the professor he was corresponding with for years.
I also haven't seen any news reports that say anything about any DNA match. Someone can correct me if there has been one.
Like I said, I REALLY hope this is the guy, but my gut tells me he's a whacko pedophile who was obsessed with JonBenet and will say anything to inject himself in the case to be associated with her.
He didn't know the Ramseys. Michael Tracey, the English guy who did the three documentaries promoting the Ramseys' innocence, got ahold of this guy online when Karr first wrote him an email, asking questions for his supposed "term paper" on men who kill children.
Then Tracey strung him along for a couple of years - I will resist the temptation to say what I think about this - and urged him to contact the parents and grandparents for his paper. Karr did talk to GPP (Grandpa Paugh) and Nedra, but John and Patsy refused to talk to him.
(Now I need to look at my notes which are packed away - there was a guy who confessed once before who convinced John he knew things about the crime that no one else knew - but he asked John for $3000 to come to Atlanta or maybe meet him in Boulder and bring his mother. John turned him down. He was in CA, but I can't think of his name.)
However, somewhere along the line, Tracey must have talked Patsy into emailing with Karr in the past few months or so, because several articles say they "talked about many things." See? I think this is all so tainted. Like, Tracey felt the guy out to see how malleable he might be and whether he'd be amenable to the power of suggestion.
I would think in pedo circles, this would be the coup de gras, the piece de resistance, to claim Jon Benet's murder as his. He has a guy who is hanging all over him, a more butch man, nice looking, there in Thailand with him who has all the earmarks of being his "good friend".
There may be some rarefied atmosphere of the elite inner circles of pervdom which none of us could even conjure up if we tried - and in that "world," they just travel anywhere and do whatever, whenever and however they want.
What is so repulsive to me about this guy (since I'm not convinced he's telling the truth) is the way he "vamps" and looks "coquettish" when answering press questions, like a little girl. More like he wanted to *be* JonBenet than *do* anything to JonBenet. Sort of a Mdme Butterfly.
Ick, ick, ick.