Posted on 08/19/2006 1:44:20 PM PDT by Huntress
I've had enough. So I will just come right out and say what others in this business apparently will not: Mary Lacy, that's not your boy.
John Mark Karr as much killed JonBenet Ramsey as Mickey Mouse did. This is a fool's errand you're on, and it won't end pretty.
If you haven't noticed, the guy is a lunatic.
OK, my upbringing tells me that it is a lousy thing to say about anyone. So let me put it this way: He is the saddest of all sad cases, a delusional, completely whacked out, early-teen-girl-marrying sociopath who writes bad poetry to long-dead little girls.
Perhaps that's better.
What I'm saying is no different than anyone capable of reading a newspaper or watching a television is saying.
On CNN this morning, I swore the two anchors were going to fall over laughing after they ran for the 35th-something time the audio of John Mark Karr making his wild, "It was an accident" claim.
Most journalists in this town and across the globe have been falling over themselves trying not to - in the words of Mrs. Lacy - "rush to judgment" on this fool, all the while rupturing an intestine to keep from laughing.
Not me. I can barely get up off the floor.
I watched on TV Thursday as Mary Lacy stood on a big stage, flanked on each side by a line of stiff, grim-faced G-men and cops, solemnly speaking of the "exigent circumstances" that necessitated the man's arrest in Bangkok.
On the other channel is yet more footage of John Mark Karr, staggering, half-leaning and vacant-eyed, in to his press conference, looking like a poor Pee-wee Herman impersonator.
"I'm so sorry for what happened to JonBenet," he said.
Please.
Even the Bangkok police, notorious for arresting people whether they need arresting or not, reportedly figured it out early, that this Pee-wee was whack-o.
Even they knew John Mark Karr couldn't have picked up JonBenet from school on the day he says he killed her, it being Christmas and all.
Maybe I'm wrong. It wouldn't be the first time I've fingered the wrong killer in this case. I still maintain I've got it at least half right.
Remember Tom Koby, the Boulder police chief at the time of the murder? He once went on TV and into the newspapers declaring he was about to hunt the killer down, that he or she wouldn't get away with it.
Call me cynical, but I don't think he had John Mark Karr in his cross hairs at the time.
Just for fun, let's say Mary Lacy has it right. Think of it.
It would make John Mark Karr the dumbest smart murderer who ever lived.
He somehow sneaked into what was then 755 15th St. in Boulder, figured out in which bedroom his "love," JonBenet was sleeping, got her downstairs unnoticed, fed her pineapple, drugged and sexually assaulted her before smashing her in the head and garroting her to death.
According to his account, such deliberation was done all "by accident."
Yet he is not done. He sits down and writes a ransom note. Maybe he did it before the pineapple thing. No matter. He scratches out a first draft. It isn't good enough.
He sits down and crafts a second one. He drops it and skedaddles.
It is a clean getaway, not a trace of John Mark Karr left behind. What's more, the coroner finds not a trace of either semen on or drugs in the girl.
Perfect crime.
And then what, 10 years later he comes clean? In Bangkok?
I'm not even waiting for the DNA tests to come back. I know the guy didn't do it.
How do I know?
Her name is Lara Knutson, the divorced wife of John Mark Karr and the mother of his children.
On Friday, she publicly said the guy was with her and the kids in Alabama on Christmas Day 1996, that they hardly had anything, much less money for a trip to Colorado.
Now, ex-wives will say and do a lot of things, but trust me, the last thing they'd ever do is risk jail time to provide your sorry backside with a phony alibi.
If I'm wrong, that is just dandy with me. DAs and cops on murder cases always tell you to just wait, that there are things they know that they just can't talk about right now.
They said the same thing in Boulder 10 years ago.
So go for it, Mary Lacy.
Being wrong again this time, though, does come with a heavy price.
On television the day of the arrest, you might remember, JonBenet Ramsey's relatives exulted over the news.
I felt sorry for them, fearful - if not certain - that once again because of blind overeagerness or sheer incompetence, Boulder authorities will disappoint them, scraping that unbearably painful 10-year-old wound.
The little girl's memory and the loved ones who survive her deserve knowing and peace, not this.
That the first time John Mark Karr ever steps foot in Boulder County will be the day Mary Lacy flies him in, well, that is simply sad and embarrassing. Not funny at all.
Bill Johnson's column appears Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Call him at 303-954-2763 or e-mail him at johnsonw@RockyMountainNews.com.
Mr. Johnson may be onto something. The more Karr talks, the less credible he gets.
The same day this hit the media, Drudge had an article quoting the ex-wife as saying he was in Alabama on the day of the murder.
There were at least three spurious confessions to the Sacco-Vanzetti murders. Of course, at least one of those was probably elicited by a bribe from the defense team . . . so that's not exactly the same situation.
I think there's a good chance this guy is just a loon who is obsessed with the Ramsey murder and has somehow convinced himself that he did it.
The "undisclosed details" thing here won't wash. Too many people were blabbing all sorts of stuff during the initial investigation. I'm sure there were plenty of leaks that never gained any public notice.
That was, in its day, the same sort of wildly notorious crime, only the fascination was with anarchists instead of the kiddie beauty pageant scene.
I still haven't heard any explanation of what reason they have to believe that he was in boulder that day. To be fair I haven't been following this though, anybody have info or a theory?
Early reports said he knew things that only the killer would know, but they never said what those were.
Need todays article in the SF Chronical. Ex-wife is now changing her story. Now she says he was with here the day after Christmas.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/08/19/MNGICKLEUC1.DTL
One Question:
Why not arrest the guy, bring him here...doo the due dilligence and check out the whole story, including DNA..and then, announce this to the Press?
why does this guy remind me of pee-wee herman, also some kind of pervert....
Once again Boulder police are incompetent in following up on a lead given by another city on this Karr guy...in 2001 !
wonder how many unsolved crimes there are out there just because someone" didn't get back to us."
AND JUST WHO'S "PRESS" ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? stop and think about what you just wrote and apply it to any other scoop du-jour
< do I need a /sarcasm tag? >
What you said.
That is very misleading. The article says she is checking everything she can to see if he spent "the day after Christmas" with her.
JonBenet was killed during the overnight hours between Christmas Day, December 25, and the day after, December 26. Her body was "found" on December 26, but coroner's reports estimated that she may have been killed as early as sometime before midnight on Christmas night, December 25.
It has always been a bone of contention that the Ramseys put her death date on her tombstone as December 25, 1996, when they "allegedly" didn't know the exact date of death. They just *liked* using the Christmas date (as John said, "to remind the world" of the day the world went nuts, or something to that effect).
So, if Rains, Lara Knutson Karr's attorney, has instructed her to look for receipts or pix relating to December 26, that is a problem. I wonder who told him that date - Mary Keenan Lacy? Hmmm.
I'm afraid she is being led on a wild goose chase about this. Everyone is, but especially about this crucial mistaken detail.
What was I thinking???!!! I was being rational...how silly. After all I was talking about the $$$$ Media.
I've often wondered if the conviction and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti marked the beginnings of Massachusetts' leftward lurch. It's hard to believe now that Calvin Coolidge was ever the state's governor.
If this is true, this is going to make a lot of people on another forum very upset.
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.
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