Now THAT would be a story.
If the Boulder DA has DNA evidence then the family better come up with something better than "He never missed a Christmas" and a picture of his kids.
This guy Karr needs to be locked up and the case needs to be solved. Just lock him up and declare the case solved. Everyone except the news hacks should be satisfied.
The way the man seems to relish cameras and the publicity, and the way the feds have stupidly lavished it upon him, I think Karr's a demented fool using the incident to bring himself infamy.
Someone ought to beat a denial out of him.
I think this is a huge scam on Karr's part. I think the Thai police were getting ready to pop him for diddling kids over there and he wanted out of the country before the Thai jails got hold of him.
I also think the jackals in the media are being scammed and will never admit it when they are shown to be wrong.
As opposed to taking a 13 y.o. girl across state lines to marry her, or getting fired from a teaching job for inappropriate conduct? This family is full of nuts, top to bottom.
I have my doubts he did it, but with his history, I'm glad he's off the street so that he can't molest anymore children.
After seeing the Mullet Carr from the 80's and seeing him now that he's here, my gut tells me he's an attention whore seeing his life dwindle into nothingness. This was his big shot at getting attention. He was doing his best Hannibal Lecter over in Thailand but now he just seems bemused that his plan is working so well. It helps that there are more "journalist" than people and events to cover.
Creepy family too.
The way people doubt Karr's confession on grounds that he is a limelight-seeking wacko, you'd think he had hired a publicist and sent out one news release after another.
The fact is this is a guy who had been *running* from the law, not running to it. He confessed to the murder only after he began to be questioned about it. The "it was an accident" bit is easily understood as his spin to lessen the contempt that people feel for him for the murder. I think what he means is that he did not go there intending to murder her, but to kidnap her. In his mind it was an "accident" because he ended up murdering her instead.
If you look at his yearbook handwriting sample and the ransom note you see that both have a characteristic that is very difficult to believe is coincidental. It is that the writer of both sometimes makes a "tail" before the downstroke at the top of letters such as t and d--not all the time but some of the time. Add to this that both authors write the letetr a as in the times roman font, and both overuse exclamation points, and it seems to me that the handwriting people who say the authors are one and the same are not practicing voodoo.
Karr is a sick criminal who stalked children in any case, whether he is this girl's murderer or not.
So my point is that this family has nothing to protect here regarding the brother anyway.
This whole think just looks weirder every day - very Boulder.
There's a logistical problem here - how Karr (if he is indeed the murderer) managed to be in Boulder CO away from his family in Atlanta/Alabama that Christmas. So far there has been no satisfactory answer to that question.