FLORENCE, Ala. -- A Florence newspaper reports in today's edition that the schoolteacher accused of killing JonBenet Ramsey was a former student at Bevill State Community College and the University of North Alabama.
John Mark Karr, according to the TimesDaily, studied elementary education, but did not graduate from UNA.
Sandra Ford, a retired fifth-grade teacher, told the paper that she often raised questions about the way he interacted with female students at Kilby Laboratory School in Florence. Karr was a student-teacher at the school in January 2000.
Ford said Karr apparently was uncomfortable with his evaluations and left UNA a few weeks later.
Karr was arrested yesterday in Thailand, and, amazingly spoke freely to reporters today when authorities brought him out in public.
He declared his love for JonBenet to an Associated Press reporter, stressing her death was an accident.
This places Karr back in Alabama in 2000. He was then arrested in California on Chold Porn charges in 2001.
Local TV here in Montgomery is now reporting that he is being investigated as a suspect in 3 possibly related murders of 11 year old girls in 2001. One girl , Shannon Paulk, was murdered in Prattville, AL in August 2001. the other 2 were in Northern Alabama, and the other was in Georgia.
Karr lived in N. Alabama, went to school there, and much of his family live in Georgia.
Also the three murders occured during a time when Karr's whereabouts cannot be confirmed.