Teacher held over murder of US child beauty queen

The Times ^ | August 17 | James Bone

[PghBaldy]

It all confused me, and I must admit I looked at the parents with suspicion, but now realize that everyone needs to get a lawyer, even if they are innocent. I hope they got the right person. The headline caught me eye. A schoolteacher...

[xcamel]

Fox radio news is reporting he has confessed to "elements of the crime"....

[Swanks]

Why is it postal workers as a group lead the league in office shootings (going postal) and teachers seem to lead the league in child sexual abuse. Hope for his sake he's tenured so he can keep his NEA job....

[kingu]

Could we please try him over there and pay to have him housed in their prisons? There was a report that there's a DNA match as well - if that, and the confession to the elements of the crime are correct, then he'll do very well in Thailand's prions.

[MHT]

Then why the ransom letter written with Patsy's distintive "M" and a ransom amount for the exact odd dollar value of John's last bonus? Why lie about the timing of her last meal, which was timed by how much pineapple was in her stomach? Why all of a sudden did John know where to find her in the house?

[50sDad]

I imagine that he ran afoul of some DNA database in the depths of the Internet.

[OriginalIntent]

The ransom note is still very troubling due to its undeniable strangeness. It has several unlikely details which remain unexplained and give reason for suspicion.

[netmilsmom]

IB$T Thailand.

[packrat35]

Questions that many here seem to forget.

[Salvey]

Why is it postal workers as a group lead the league in office shootings (going postal) and teachers seem to lead the league in child sexual abuse.

And democRATS lead the league in treason, treachery, self-hatred, appeasement, anti-Americanism and ______(you fill in the blank).

[samm1148]

I thought priests were the only child molesters? (To hear the propaganda spewed out on liberal dissertations that is)

[Holicheese]

He'll probably be the head of the Union with this on his CV.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

FWIW, I heard an explanation for one of your questions on CNN tonight.

Why all of a sudden did John know where to find her in the house?The police had searched the house, but sent John Ramsey and a neighbor down to look in the basement. The reporter said, this should never have been done, and it was never reported that that was why he found her.

Becky

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Uh, no. There is a building in NY city where they wharehouse teachers that they can't fire, but who have been considered too dangerous to leave in the classroom. I am not making this up...saw on John Stossel's program.

[PghBaldy]

I saw research that showed the postal thing is a myth. It's probably just that there are SO MANY of them. The schoolteacher thing is like why robbers robb banks...

[PghBaldy]

The amount of the bonus is strange.

[Holicheese]

Wow, that is a scary thought. I bet there is an Old Teachers Home where all these old Gym teachers sit around all day talking about the good old days when you could play BOMBARDMENT!!!

[varina davis]

Even if this turns out to be the murderer, I still think something is very fishy in this case. Something to do with the family -- not necessarily the parents.

[freedumb2003]

I thought priests were the only child molesters? (To hear the propaganda spewed out on liberal dissertations that is)

Sadly, you don't have to go all the way there to see such assertions. Catholic bashing is a sport here as well :(

[AmeriBrit]

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