Listen up men. Mary Lacy says she has the case all sewn up. The Bang Cock Cops got our man. We will pick him up at the airport.
Posted on 08/20/2006 12:43:56 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
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.
This wako freak is on the high point of his life. He's been abusing little kids for a long time and he is narscissitic enough to try to take credit for this murder. He might have done it. Regardless, he needs to be put in a box for the rest of his life.
How does Karr explain the alibi his wife offered for the day of the murder?
He can't.
Everyone, even crazy folks take pictures with their kids on Christmas morning.
Well, at least he's giving the boys and girls in the MSM something new to huff and puff about. This kind of stuff really blows their skirts up.
Johnson or Karr?
I saw the press conference by the DA. She may be hauling him back to question him because he had information he shouldn't have had. I think she needs to interrogate him here. If he knows something, let it come out. I doubt he is the murderer, but hey, let justice takes it's course.
The crux of the problem. Was Mary Lacy trying to make sure he was off the streets?
Yeah? Well I like Jerry Lee Lewis!
Listen up men. Mary Lacy says she has the case all sewn up. The Bang Cock Cops got our man. We will pick him up at the airport.
This is what happens when bad reporting is repeated and uncorrobarated. First, the "facts" of the confession to Thai authorities are in dispute. The statement regarding picking the child victim up from school was one example. A Thai interrogator now claims that that "fact" was added from his own recollection of a TV documentary, not the arrested's. The only fact that isn't subject to poor journalism (and that I will believe) is whether the DNA from the suspect matches that taken from the crime scene and which does not match any other known person. Otherwise this is just bad reporting compounded by ill-founded conjecture.
If he's found to be not "the guy", I hope they send him back to the Bangkok jail to finish out his time rather than puttin in some American "country club" of a jail!
The authorities have made him into a celebrity. First class treatment on his flight. What crap Just for the MSM.
I can't recall where I was X-mas 2006 for that matter.
I don't find her claim very compelling. She has no evidence to back it up, and memories can fade after 10 years.
She does have a motive to remember in his favor--her children. How many women want their children to live with the stigma of having their father known as a notorious child molester/murderer?
I can't stand my ex-husband and think he's pretty vile (but not this vile!) However, most women would remember any Christmases that their husband was not with them and children. I can vividly remember Christmas of '96- we spent Christmas Eve at the grandma-in-laws and announced we were expecting child #2. Former brother-in-law and wife were divorcing but hadn't told anyone but us, yet, so they didn't ruin Christmas. I can even remember a couple of my gifts. ; ) Ex-husband was with me all the next day, also. A lot of women remember holidays, especially when they have kids ages to milestone. And unless it is common for their husband to skip holidays, they remember those where the husband was gone. (I still remember the only Thanksgiving my dad missed when I was a kid.)
That woman who shotgunned her husband and confessed is walking around free.
So full of misinformation I don't where to start
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