Posted on 08/19/2006 5:16:19 PM PDT by Shermy
BOULDER - As a running columnist for the Boulder Daily Camera, Mike Sandrock had little interest in the JonBenet Ramsey investigation until he saw a photo in his paper's newsroom.
The picture staring back at him, Sandrock remembered the summer of 2002 in Paris like it was last week.
Sandrock travels the world covering running events, but this trip was used for research on an Ernest Hemmingway book he's preparing.
Beneath his Paris loft, Sandrock looked for motivation in a bookstore named Shakespeare and Company, a hangout of Hemmingway's in the 1920's where his thoughts and career once started to blossom.
Sandrock met many tourists in the historic shop, and shared several conversations, including many talks with a John Mark Karr.
"He was just a regular guy, clean cut, very pleasant in fact," said Sandrock.
The topics quickly focused on JonBenet Ramsey and Boulder, Colorado after Sandrock's occupation came up.
"He said what do you do? I told him I'm a columnist with the Daily Camera in Boulder, and he got so excited," said Sandrock.
Maybe excited was an understatement, as every word thereafter, was about the town and the story.
"He knew everything about it, everything," said Sandrock.
Karr recited many facts about Boulder, from landmarks to the location of the Daily Camera.
"I got the impression he had been in Boulder, then I thought he just saw the documentaries," said Sandrock.
Documentaries produced by CU Professor Michael Tracy, whom Sandrock knew, and someone Karr wanted to know.
After talking with Karr on several occasions that summer, Sandrock was no longer interested in the subject, but later agreed to put Karr in touch with Professor Tracy through e-mail.
"I got the impression he wanted to talk more, but I stopped the conversations when he got into how the girl died, I just was not interested in that," said Sandrock.
Sandrock said Karr never discussed having visited Colorado, and never got the impression that Karr was a murderer, only extremely consumed with JonBenet Ramsey and her death.
"That's the thing, he wasn't that different, just obsessive, even in Boulder you meet a lot of people that are obsessive," said Sandrock.
Deloreans haven't been expensive in quite some time (if ever).
Unless you consider 16K for a car expensive...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/DeLorean-DeLorean-1981-DeLorean-Rare-Wide-Racing-Stripe-Great-Shape_W0QQitemZ270019995647QQihZ017QQcategoryZ31830QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Here is an interesting link to a book review. The book is written by “John Karr” in 2001 and is titled “Dark Resurrection”. It is described as being something between “Coma” and “Hannibal the Cannibal”. This entire thing is wierd, but the strangeness of the book reminded me of the strange ransom note left at the Ramsey’s. I would like to read the book to compare writting styles.
Dark Resurrection
Barclay Books, LLC
2001
320 pages
Genre: Horror
Amazon.com price: $15.95
I first met him in 1965. We worked at the same place for about 3 years... until 1968.
I don't think he started killing until he moved to Fairfax in about 1973 or so.
He got caught in 1985. I saw him perhaps 5 or 6 times between 1973 and 1985. We would have lunch in D.C. Starting in 1983 we had a lot of phone conversations. But all we ever talked about was computer software ... Mostly about Professor Knuth's three volumes on computer programming and the design and coding of computer operating systems.
How many high school student do you know that could afford 17k for a car back in the early 80s. I bought a new loaded Buick Roadmaster back then for 8k.
12,500 dollars a year was considered a good wage.
My immediate thought also.
Look at those boys smothering affection on their dad and the dad coiled and tensed up (as pointed out in another post). He was being as distant as possible while still in physical contact.
Kids want their parents to give and receive love and to protect them. Karr looks to have failed miserably in this job.
You have freep mail.
I read a little on him.
Killed himself in prison 4 yrs ago.
When they were being liquidated by a Columbus company in the early 1980s, you could buy a new one for $3000.
here is more on the book...
http://www.authorsden.com/categories/book_top.asp?catid=52&id=4208
Dark Resurrection
By John Karr
Category: Horror
Publisher: Barclay Books, LLC
Type: Fiction
Pages: 320
ISBN: 193140223X
Copyright: Jun 1 2001
Imagine what it would be like to be admitted to a hospital run by creatures who crave far more than the dollars in your bank account -- namely, your flesh. DARK RESURRECTION lures you into the world of the Undead.
Victor Galloway is a prominent surgeon and family man living in northern Virginia. When he suffers a heart attack while his family is away from home, he claws his way to the phone and somehow dials 911. The paramedics arrive, smile down at him, and quickly give him a lethal injection.
Victor's life is ending, but his nightmare is just getting warmed up.
Close to death and strapped to a gurney, he is rushed to Holy Evangelical Lady of the Lake where Randolph Tobias, CEO of H.E.L.L., greets him in the emergency room. "I need your skills as a surgeon to harvest the living and feed my people, Victor. Join us and you may remain with your family. Join us and you will never die again."
Sensing the evil exuding from the doctors and nurses around him, Victor rejects Tobias' offer. But Tobias is too powerful to be denied and Victor is pressed into the ranks of the undead. Like them, Victor craves human flesh -- but at the same time he is different. Risking the lives of his wife and son and the wrath of the beast residing in the tunnel below, Victor attempts to stop Tobias from preying upon the living .…
It's not him...
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?AuthorID=4191 (picture of author at link)
Author's Bio
da man Raised primarily in Virginia, John has also lived in Maryland, Brazil and New York. He now resides in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife and two children. A computer programmer by day, his real ambition is to write stories that are provocative in their story lines and entertaining to his readers. Currently he carves an hour or more from each day to satiate--albeit temporarily--his writing habit. When not writing or programming computers, his preferred activities are spending time with family, exercising, reading, landscaping, watching documentaries and movies, excursions within the Tar Heel state, and sport fishing. John is an ardent believer in the quote by Car Van Doren (1885 - 1950): "Yes, its hard to write, but it's harder not to."
Author's bio. Could be made up.
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?AuthorID=4191
Tourist class.
THanks for the correction.
Schottenstein's didn't get their hands on the Deloreans until the mid 1980s and the asking price was over 15,000 dollars. Delorean tried to save the company ... even got hooked on a drug deal set up by the FBI. He beat the charges.
It took them several years to get rid of the cars, but I was told that Schottensteins had $8,000 in them and they made money on every one they sold.
If the price had fallen to $8,000 I would have bought one. The price never fell.
Ah, here we go - from the AJC:
" ... In his teens, Karr somehow got his hands on a DeLorean, an expensive sports car known for its gull-wing doors. He told friends that he convinced some guy in Atlanta to sell it to him, and it was a mystery how he could afford it. Then he painted it red. ..."
There are a lot of John Karr's out there.
some more creepy stuff on Karr...
Alabama residents remember Karr
http://www.coloradodaily.com/articles/2006/08/20/news/c_u_and_boulder/news2.txt
Has anyone discovered how he has money to do all this traveling?
He looks way more normal there then the recent pictures and video of him
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