Posted on 08/18/2006 2:38:01 AM PDT by beaversmom
As investigators puzzle over the life and mind of John Mark Karr, who has confessed to the killing of JonBenet Ramsey, they must unravel an elaborate and hazy narrative woven in part by Karr himself, much of it constructed around a clear and chilling theme — a yearning to be close to children.
Karr is a man who, while wanted as a fugitive on child-pornography charges, sought to impress prospective employers with a record of accomplishment preparing young lives "for a successful future."
He is a man who twice married teenagers — one just 13 at the time. Both would later claim they had been coerced.
And he is the man who confided to family members that he was deeply troubled by the slaying of the Colorado 6-year-old. He now claims to have loved and sexually assaulted her.
It's difficult to know how much to believe about the life Karr says he has led since JonBenet was found strangled and beaten a decade ago in the basement of her family's home.
"I awoke the children in the morning and gave them breakfast," Karr wrote in one online résumé, recounting life as a private teacher and caregiver for three girls in Germany, ages 7, 11 and 12. "At day's end, I made sure the children had their evening bath, then put them to bed and read to them before they went to sleep."
Karr, who arrived in Thailand earlier this year looking for work as a teacher, claims to have spent years skipping from job to job, country to country, nearly all the time working with children. Details proved difficult to pin down Thursday.
School officials in Alabama and California confirmed that he worked in both states as a substitute teacher in the latter half of the 1990s and in 2001.
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