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.
He's just Creepy McCreepy.
I agree. Thanks for the extra info. Forgot that Greta interviewed his brother last night.
But, so far, I am not seeing anything that convinces me that this is the guy.
However, he is clearly enjoying the attention.