The first time they asked her, it was kind of an ambush by a TV reporter and Lara answered off-the-cuff, from behind her front door, which was just partially opened.
She said she didn't recall any Christmases spent apart from the time they married in 1989 until they separated in 2001. They lived in AL at the time and she has since said that they were dirt poor. The assumption was that he couldn't just jump on a plane and fly to Boulder, much less without her and/or the children, ages 5,4,3 at the time,knowing.
People took that as an alibi. Then the media interviewed one of his brothers, Nate, in Atlanta, who said he thought the whole family was together in Atlanta, where Nate and JMK's father both live, as they always were.
So, people started questioning whether John Mark Karr was in Alabama or in Atlanta on Christmas Day, 1996.
Lara got an attorney and he has been her spokesperson ever since. He's not all that briefed on the JBR case, so he's going to say things that might not gibe with what case-followers would expect. (Poor guy!)
Personally, I don't care whether they were all in Alabama or in Atlanta. I just hope there is some kind of proof that he was there. And that they aren't misled into thinking that December 26, when JBR's body was found, is the actual date of death.
Hours might be crucial here and Lin Wood is bound to make more big deals about the Atlanta confluence, too - which really doesn't relate to anything at all, except him - and to John Andrew's alibi.
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.
Right.