Posted on 08/19/2006 1:44:20 PM PDT by Huntress
I've had enough. So I will just come right out and say what others in this business apparently will not: Mary Lacy, that's not your boy.
John Mark Karr as much killed JonBenet Ramsey as Mickey Mouse did. This is a fool's errand you're on, and it won't end pretty.
If you haven't noticed, the guy is a lunatic.
OK, my upbringing tells me that it is a lousy thing to say about anyone. So let me put it this way: He is the saddest of all sad cases, a delusional, completely whacked out, early-teen-girl-marrying sociopath who writes bad poetry to long-dead little girls.
Perhaps that's better.
What I'm saying is no different than anyone capable of reading a newspaper or watching a television is saying.
On CNN this morning, I swore the two anchors were going to fall over laughing after they ran for the 35th-something time the audio of John Mark Karr making his wild, "It was an accident" claim.
Most journalists in this town and across the globe have been falling over themselves trying not to - in the words of Mrs. Lacy - "rush to judgment" on this fool, all the while rupturing an intestine to keep from laughing.
Not me. I can barely get up off the floor.
I watched on TV Thursday as Mary Lacy stood on a big stage, flanked on each side by a line of stiff, grim-faced G-men and cops, solemnly speaking of the "exigent circumstances" that necessitated the man's arrest in Bangkok.
On the other channel is yet more footage of John Mark Karr, staggering, half-leaning and vacant-eyed, in to his press conference, looking like a poor Pee-wee Herman impersonator.
"I'm so sorry for what happened to JonBenet," he said.
Please.
Even the Bangkok police, notorious for arresting people whether they need arresting or not, reportedly figured it out early, that this Pee-wee was whack-o.
Even they knew John Mark Karr couldn't have picked up JonBenet from school on the day he says he killed her, it being Christmas and all.
Maybe I'm wrong. It wouldn't be the first time I've fingered the wrong killer in this case. I still maintain I've got it at least half right.
Remember Tom Koby, the Boulder police chief at the time of the murder? He once went on TV and into the newspapers declaring he was about to hunt the killer down, that he or she wouldn't get away with it.
Call me cynical, but I don't think he had John Mark Karr in his cross hairs at the time.
Just for fun, let's say Mary Lacy has it right. Think of it.
It would make John Mark Karr the dumbest smart murderer who ever lived.
He somehow sneaked into what was then 755 15th St. in Boulder, figured out in which bedroom his "love," JonBenet was sleeping, got her downstairs unnoticed, fed her pineapple, drugged and sexually assaulted her before smashing her in the head and garroting her to death.
According to his account, such deliberation was done all "by accident."
Yet he is not done. He sits down and writes a ransom note. Maybe he did it before the pineapple thing. No matter. He scratches out a first draft. It isn't good enough.
He sits down and crafts a second one. He drops it and skedaddles.
It is a clean getaway, not a trace of John Mark Karr left behind. What's more, the coroner finds not a trace of either semen on or drugs in the girl.
Perfect crime.
And then what, 10 years later he comes clean? In Bangkok?
I'm not even waiting for the DNA tests to come back. I know the guy didn't do it.
How do I know?
Her name is Lara Knutson, the divorced wife of John Mark Karr and the mother of his children.
On Friday, she publicly said the guy was with her and the kids in Alabama on Christmas Day 1996, that they hardly had anything, much less money for a trip to Colorado.
Now, ex-wives will say and do a lot of things, but trust me, the last thing they'd ever do is risk jail time to provide your sorry backside with a phony alibi.
If I'm wrong, that is just dandy with me. DAs and cops on murder cases always tell you to just wait, that there are things they know that they just can't talk about right now.
They said the same thing in Boulder 10 years ago.
So go for it, Mary Lacy.
Being wrong again this time, though, does come with a heavy price.
On television the day of the arrest, you might remember, JonBenet Ramsey's relatives exulted over the news.
I felt sorry for them, fearful - if not certain - that once again because of blind overeagerness or sheer incompetence, Boulder authorities will disappoint them, scraping that unbearably painful 10-year-old wound.
The little girl's memory and the loved ones who survive her deserve knowing and peace, not this.
That the first time John Mark Karr ever steps foot in Boulder County will be the day Mary Lacy flies him in, well, that is simply sad and embarrassing. Not funny at all.
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Yes John Mark Karr is wack and yes he is delusional. I’m trying not to rush to judgment here or jumping to conclusions because I’d rather think this known pedophile did it rather than the parents, but he could still be guilty and still be delusional.
It is possible that after ten years, he’s reinvented his memory of the events whether he actually did it or not; his fantasizing about picking her up from school and it being an accident has now become his reality.
And the ex? Well she’d have no reason to come to his defense except she was a child herself when he married her and she bore his children as a child herself. What if she was drawn into his pedophilia either as a willing partner or an observer to other crimes?
She and his first child bride describe him as controlling and manipulative.
And then there’s more confusing and possibly contradictory evidence in the ransom note and a yearbook entry Karr made years earlier.
“The yearbook entry ends with Karr writing in capital block letters, "Though, deep in the future, maybe I shall be the conquerer and live in multiple peace."
“A ransom note found in the Ramsey home ended with the word "Victory!" and was signed "S.B.T.C." Authorities want to know whether those letters might stand for "shall be the conquerer" and whether they could have been written by the same person”.
I can't stand my ex-husband, and would vouch for him for very little, but I can tell without a doubt that we were together every Christmas. I would have remembered if there were any he missed.
It aint over till the fat lady sings. Her song is going to be about DNA.
I'm not sure how some law enforcement groups may act in all cases, but:
These folks out in Colorado, knowing this guy is a real threat to children and that he has done bad things to them already, if the DNA DOES NOT match, I wouldn't put it past them to say that it did match.
We would never know.
Bingo
The guy was doing research on the case........ trying to write a book on the case. He should know a lot.
Right.
On Christmas Day?
That is very interesting.
I was on the fence about Karr being the real killer until I saw the shot of the yearbook entry on TV. I don't know about you, but I have never had (or known) anyone to write in a yearbook "shall be the conqueror". The odds of this being purely coincidental are astronomical
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The Ransom note makes no sense. You don't leave a "critically placed" ransom note when the victim is already dead.....
But put it with his latest "Live camera" statement: "It was an accident" and it's one of those "See, I never intended to kill her. The note is proof."
He went on to say "That makes it 2nd degree not 1st degree murder".
He didn't think the note out carefully enough. The note was to prove that "he was smarter and more powerful than John Ramsey" by killing what he loved most. VICTORY
There is no sign of any "love" for Jonbenet in the ransom note.
"What's more, the coroner finds not a trace of either semen on or drugs in the girl. "
I thought they did find DNA in her pants.
Apparently Lee doesn't know that most of us wash new clothes before we wear them (with exceptions).
I think they are Karr's tears and he was "crying" at his own horror......Suwart said the suspect described the encounter as a "BLUR".
From the yearbook:"Sometimes, so BLURRED by my own eyes, I've seen the best things come and go simultaneously".
I think I remember them saying that it looked like her private area was wiped off....that makes sense for tears...
If the SBTC thing was really a trope with him, he will have left it in multiple places down the years. Nutjobs always do. The phrase "multiple peace," though, makes bells ring and sirens sound.
LOL.... not to be glib, but I know Iran's Ahmadinejad hates that phrase these days.
;-)
If you'd read the article, she's not changing her story at all. She's in search of actual proof now instead of going with her initial impression.
CBS News: DNA Rules Out Parents The crime lab has two spots of JonBenet’s blood found on the underwear she was wearing the night of the murder. Mixed in with that blood is the DNA of an unknown person. It has taken years to isolate, but forensic scientists in Colorado now have a complete DNA profile of the killer. They know the killer is a male. What they don’t know is his name.
Augustin and Gray are convinced that the DNA sample belongs to JonBenet’s killer, because of a small amount of matching DNA that also was found under the 6-year-old murder victim’s fingernails.
Thanks much. That's exactly what I wanted to know.
general info on what was found in her panties is here...
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/jonbenet2.html
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