Posted on 08/20/2006 9:43:10 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
Karr said he identified with Michael Jackson
August 21, 2006
NEW YORK: In the series of emails that prompted police to arrest him, John Karr said he identified with Michael Jackson's attachment to children and, like the singer, compared himself with Peter Pan.
"I am trapped in a world that does not understand," Karr wrote to a Colorado journalism professor during a four-year correspondence. "I can understand people like Michael Jackson and feel sympathy when he suffers as he has … I do think that he is sexually attracted to certain children but could never divulge this."
His emails to Michael Tracey, which began after he saw one of his documentaries about the murder, displayed an obsession with JonBenet Ramsey and delusions about his notoriety, claiming falsely to be the subject of "a four-state federal investigation for child murder".
Karr even wrote a poem for the child. "JonBenet, my love, my life. I love you and shall forever love you," it read.
"If there is to be a life for me after this one, I pray that it will be with you - together forever with you and other little girls who are gone now from my life forever. That would be my Heaven."
The prose in Karr's emails is markedly different from that of the three-page ransom note JonBenet's killer left behind.
Karr lost his job, wife and contact with his sons after a child pornography arrest in 2001. He said, "I lost every friend, contact and family member as a result of this investigation. Some of my closest little girls were questioned by the authorities which broke my heart into pieces. I will never have contact with anyone in my past ever again."
The emails also touch on Karr's childhood.
Tracey: "You told me once that your mother tended to raise you as a girl. This must have had a powerful effect on your developing sexuality - confusion maybe?"
Karr: "Michael, I will not discuss my sexuality as if it is a psychological disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders".
Karr said he feels at home only among children.
"My peer group has not changed since I was a little boy, and girls were the people I was with always," he wrote.
"I can only say that I can relate very well to children and the way they think and feel."
New York Daily News
It is definately eye-liner on the lower lids!
"He creeps me out" is a gross understatement.
Crikey! Ewwww Yuck!
When he is found guilty, this chester ought to be carefully preserved in casting resin, a specimen for future study.
No kidding, FRiend!
This "guy" is a freak.
The freak was undergoing preliminary preparations for a sex change operation. I guess he figures he will end up in prison and may as well make the best of it LOL!
I suspect that you are correct.
Whether he killed her or not, this creep needs to be locked up. It would not surprise me if he did turn out to be the killer, or one of the killers.
I quite agree. This guy is an absolute creep, but even absolute creeps can be innocent, at least of this crime.
I just hope he would be found guilty of something else so we could get him off the street.
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