Posted on 08/17/2006 6:02:44 PM PDT by commish
The man who claimed he killed JonBenet Ramsey was known in his Alabama hometown for his flashy red sports car. But he was also dogged by questions about his marriages to teenage girls and behavior in elementary classrooms where he worked as a substitute teacher.
John Karr, who lived in northwest Alabama from his preteen years until after the brutal slaying in Colorado, stood out in this rural town both for his gull-winged red DeLorean and his intelligence. Marion County School Superintendent Bravell Jackson, says people couldn't help but like him. Jackson taught Karr and later had to fire him as a substitute teacher amid parent complaints.
Sandra Ford, a retired fifth-grade teacher at Kilby School in Florence supervised Karr's internship, says she was concerned by the way he related to female students. Karr's marriages to teen girls also generated talk in the area. Court records show a 14-year-old girl sought an annulment of their "ceremonial marriage" in 1985. She claimed she feared for her life when she agreed to wed him in 1984, when she was just 13 and he was 19. Karr admitted she was a minor, but denied she was 13.
A judge granted the annulment. Karr later married Lara Karr, who was 16 when their twin daughters died the day they were born on September 1st, 1989. The girls, Angel and Innocence Karr, are buried in the cemetery of a rural church in a family plot. Former Sheriff A-C Tice says the twins were born at home. Probate Judge Annette Bozeman says Karr apparently delivered his children.
Courtesy: Alabama Associated Press
He told his father he was detained for involvement in the JonBenet case, not for child porn. That was the last he heard of him.
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Sandra Ford, a retired fifth-grade teacher at Kilby School in Florence supervised Karr's internship, says she was concerned by the way he related to female students. Karr's marriages to teen girls also generated talk in the area. Court records show a 14-year-old girl sought an annulment of their "ceremonial marriage" in 1985. She claimed she feared for her life when she agreed to wed him in 1984, when she was just 13 and he was 19. Karr admitted she was a minor, but denied she was 13.
A judge granted the annulment. Karr later married Lara Karr, who was 16 when their twin daughters died the day they were born on September 1st, 1989. The girls, Angel and Innocence Karr, are buried in the cemetery of a rural church in a family plot. Former Sheriff A-C Tice says the twins were born at home. Probate Judge Annette Bozeman says Karr apparently delivered his children.
I haven't read anything by Harry Crews. I see Karr as more of a William Faulkner or Tennessee Williams character.
Erkel?
Yep, Crews is probably not Gothic. Before I heard about the Delorean, I caught his father's first name as something like Wexford, and thought rich kid and sure enough...
there is no record of powerwurks.com in archive.org
Extremely.
i'd guess the poilice took his belt...
Who would own a Delorean? Ugly car any color!That piss stained steel looked like crap. Like driving around in a commercial kitchen.
Interesting article, hadn't heard some of this before now.
To me the biggest gut-level warning sign that he is lying about the Ramsey case is his breathless claim to have "loved JonBenet". That implies an obsession with her public image like a deranged fan, not what I would expect to hear from a calculating child rapist and murderer who has for ten years evaded capture for the most famous child murder since Lindbergh's baby. This guy was not a drifting transient - place him in Colorado in December 1996, which should be easy to do - and then I'll take it more seriously.
This guy married two teenage girls? What were their parents thinking?
I note an absence of criticism on FR of the parents who dressed the child up like a whore.
Karr's resume submitted to Job4Teacher.com reads like a master teacher, which according to substitute teacher of 17 years (tonight on CNN), she claims that he was not. The resume might give some clues as to when he was at certain locations.
This story just gets crazier! Where were the parents of these girls, is my first question. My second question is arent' (weren't?) Deloreons incredibly expensive? Where would a school teacher get the money to buy one?
"Who would button all three buttons on a polo shirt?"
My brother, God help him.
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