Posted on 08/24/2006 11:55:08 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - John Mark Karr bragged to his landlord's wife that sexually, he was "like a wolf," and said he "liked little boys and girls" when he worked in Costa Rica as an English teacher, his former housemates told The Associated Press.
Karr, now jailed in the United States after his arrest in Thailand, faces a Colorado warrant for the 1996 murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey.
Karr traveled around the world in recent years, including brief stays in Honduras and Costa Rica, where he rented a room in 2004 from Canadian John Hall, who now teaches at a private university in the capital of San Jose.
"I had to kick him out, because he was obviously a pervert, and I was worried about the safety of my wife and my stepdaughters," Hall told The Associated Press.
Hall, 42, told AP in an exclusive interview that he rented a room to Karr through an Internet posting, but asked him to leave after about five weeks because Karr was saying "rude and inappropriate things" to his Costa Rican wife and stepdaughters, then 16 and 20.
"I threw him out because he was causing problems for them," Hall said. "Eventually he told my wife that he 'was sexually like a wolf,' and after that I asked him to leave."
One stepdaughter, now 22, told The Associated Press that Karr had said several times that he liked the "little ones." The stepdaughter spoke on condition her name not be published.
Hall said that Karr would often either talk incessantly, or sit in his room and listen to dark rock music, like that of Marilyn Manson, something that also bothered the Halls, who are Pentecostal Christians.
"We started getting pretty scared," Hall said, when Karr described himself as "sexually ambiguous" in conversations with the family and even visitors to the house. Karr also said he "liked little boys and girls," and that "he thought my stepdaughter ... was cute," Hall said.
Hall said Karr never touched his wife or stepdaughters, or did anything else criminal in Costa Rica that he was aware of, so he didn't alert police. But after kicking Karr out, Hall said, he remained suspicious enough to do a computer search to see if he was a sex predator.
"I suspected he was a pedophile. I looked on the Internet to see if there was something on him, but I didn't find anything," he said.
The following year, Karr taught for eight months at a small primary school in La Esperanza, Honduras, 60 miles from the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, according to Renan Marquez, the school's chief administrator.
Marquez said Karr taught second grade but left because he had a contract with a school in another country; he didn't know which. Marquez told AP by telephone that Karr was always "reserved, shy, responsible, organized and punctual."
Karr "required a lot of discipline" of his second-grade English students, Marquez said. "I never saw anything strange in his treatment of the children."
Police in Costa Rica and Honduras told the AP they have no records of any complaints about Karr. "If Karr committed a crime in this country, nobody reported it," said Lorena Calix, spokeswoman for prosecutors in Honduras.
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Associated Press writer Freddy Cuevas in Tegucigalpa contributed to this report.
Karr's dad lives in an affluent section of Atlanta and apparently is or was in the construction business. Considering that a son like this might be a little "embarrasing" it's likely that he may have had one of those jobs where you get paid NOT to show up.
Also, the fact that he kept marrying girls that are very young would indicate to me that he was "marrying down", getting girls from the wrong side of the tracks, so that with his family's money, there was enough of a power imbalance to get what he wanted without any kick back. Most middle class Southerners are real sensitive about the marrying young bit because it reminds us of our impoverished Appalachian roots. Hey, I can say that - I are one.
The Knutson family is certainly NOT from the wrong side of the tracks. Lara's father is very successful.
The word "peace" was actually below the word "multiple", which suggests to me that it was a valediction (i.e. conclusion to the note). By saying that he "shall be the conqueror and live in multiple", he seems to have been hinting at his intent to live secret lives characterized by grandiously perverse behavior.
The people who assume that Patsy Ramsey killed her daughter based on the ransome note seem to making the mistake of assuming that the murderer didn't want to be caught. Assuming he did it, Carr seems to have wanted to have been tracked down and caught from the beginning and thus the obviously phony ransome note with hints of his identity, his correspondence with strangers regarding the crime, and his high visibility as a grade school teacher.
In any event, the DNA evidence should either convict him or rule him out if it's been well preserved.
Burke could have found the knife. Burke could have seen the kidnap movies referenced in the note. Burke may have had a history of injuring JBR. I vote Burke.
See, it's
Burke
The other
Child.
Me too... and what about the DeLorean?
Bingo. Very, Very ODD.
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