Posted on 08/17/2006 3:21:42 PM PDT by Arec Barrwin
Rocky Mountain News
Expert: 'Do we have a wack-job or a murderer?'
By Sue Lindsay and Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News August 17, 2006
Legal and law enforcement experts have begun to express outward skepticism about claims by a teacher that he killed JonBenet Ramsey.
John Mark Karr told reporters in a press conference last night in Thailand he was with the 6-year-old beauty queen when she died nearly 10 years ago. He said the death was accidental, as part of a botched kidnapping effort. When asked how he entered the family’s Boulder home, he declined to comment.
But investigators in Thailand have told the Associated Press that Karr has made several other statements to them, including claims that he picked JonBenet up from school the day she was killed and that he drugged her. JonBenet was on Christmas vacation at the time, so school was not in session, and there was no evidence of drugs found in JonBenet’s body during the autopsy.
So far, there is no paper trail of Karr being in Colorado. Police in Boulder said today that they have no record of ever having contact with him.
Denver defense lawyer Larry Pozner said Karr's news conference confession, televised late last night, was bizarre.
"Is this just an obsessive guy craving his 15 minutes of fame? There are those people who confess under circumstances where we immediately know, this is real. This isn’t one of them," Pozner said. "We have to withhold judgment because he has not given enough facts for us to decide: Do we have a wack-job or a murderer?"
Denver lawyer and former prosecutor Craig Silverman expressed similar reservations.
"This confession is nonsensical and it appears to be delusional. To claim this was an accident is ridiculous. It's hard to imagine a more intentional, deliberate murder than hitting a girl with sufficient force to split her skull open and to fashion a garrote and twist it until she stops breathing."
A former investigator knowledgeable about the case watched a press conference by Boulder District Attorney Mary Lacy this morning and said he was concerned about what she said - and didn’t say.
"Her statements about, 'I wish that we could have continued (the investigation) in this vein, rather than in the public eye,' I agree with her in that regard. Because, for her sake, I hate to predict what’s going to come down if this whole things falls apart and they drag a guy 12,000 miles back from Bangkok only to get his 15 minutes of fame and a free ticket back to America."
Yeah, crazy like a fox. If he was writing a book about and had previously written a research paper in college about the Ramsey case then he knows the publicly released version of the autopsy says no drugs detected.
OTH, an actual toxicology report page is missing from the nine page autopsy report and the two lines on the first (summary) page showing nothing found looks inserted after the fact. JMO
The thing that tweaks me is his ex-wife's statement that he was with them on Christmas Day in 96. They had 3 young children, so I think a father's absence on that day would be easily remembered, so I don't really see how he could have done it unless she is lying.
She got a divorce decree that does not allow him any contact with the kids and that says something about how she feels about his character right there.
You can bet LE in every jurisdiction with a missing or murdered girl of similar age range is looking at him hard now and his DNA is going to get compared to a lot of cold cases.
BINGO!
I was reading your reply and I didn't even have to look at the screen name to know it was you! LOL. Obviously spending too much time reading the DUmmie FUnnies on my part!
Whack job! By the way ,on Imus this morning he stated that this bozo and Lamont are identical twins!
I'm leaning towards hang him any way.
Execute him and then get on with finding the real killer.
Not the guy. Too many holes. Oh, and despite what the MSM is saying about him living here in GA near the Ramsey's house? BS. Conyers is 50 miles from my house at least and I live closer than they did.
If he's a false confessor, how did he leave his DNA at the crime scene?
Since when do we banish US citizens for commiting crimes? What is this, medieval Europe?
"I find it strange that the FBI gets involved and does an internation extradition from Thailand unless they had some good evidence."
Don't forget, it was the FBI (and several MSM folks) who thought Richard Jewell was responsible for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing.
To my knowledge, there is no evidence of a DNA match to date.
A stateside murder 2 conviction would be better than a Thai prison for a weak and pretty young man...
Thailand?
Whack Job gets my vote.
I always thought Mrs. Ramsey found Mr. Ramsey and Jon Benet in bed and killed her daughter in a writ of fealous jage.
Just my opinion.
Jack.
I'm leaning really hard toward him wanting a free trip back to America to escape a cell in Thailand.
I thought it was a jit of realous fage, but I'm old and forgetful. Forgetable?
But what about the news stating that he knows certain information that could only be known by the killer? I am fully aware that it's very puzzling.
People keep saying that he is facing prison here or in Thailand but he was taken into custody in Thailand specifically because US authorities told them to arrest him. He didn't commit a crime in Thailand and doesn't face prison there. I think this guy is a whack-job whether he is guilty or not but let's keep our facts straight.
Just as an aside, which may or may not be illuminating, anyone wishing to gain some insight into the nature of life in a Thai prison should check out the very graphic descriptions of Warren Fellows. Fellows was an Ozzie found guilty of drug trafficking in Thailand. After his release, twelve years later, he wrote a couple of utterly horrifying accounts:
Fellows, Warren, 40,000 Days: My Life and Survival in a Bangkok Prison
Fellows, Warren, The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison
Not that it sheds any light on anything, but personally I'd confess to donating money to the Golden Hordes of Genghis Khan and/or murdering Joan of Arc if it'd keep me out of such a place. Utter, absolute nightmare.
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