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Local handwriting expert says he believes Karr wrote ransom note
Jackson Daily Progress ^ | August 19, 2006 05:28 pm | Kelly Young

Posted on 08/20/2006 6:17:00 PM PDT by Halls

Nearly a decade since her brutal murder in the basement of her parents’ home, the JonBenet Ramsey case was once again thrust into the public eye last week, when authorities arrested John M. Karr for the murder of the six-year-old girl. Since his arrest, Karr has confessed to the murder of Ramsey, although the validity of his confession is being questioned by those investigating the case due to inaccuracies in his testimony.

Local handwriting expert Don Lehew, of Mt. Selman, has obtained several samples of John M. Karr’s handwriting, as well as, a copy of the Ramsey ransom note, and according to his analysis, they are all written by the same person. Lehew compared the ransom note to an old yearbook entry by Karr and an employment application Karr filled out when applying for a teaching job.

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: johnmarkkarr; johnmkarr; jonbenetramsey; karr; ramsey
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To: Wolfstar
-and the hysteria continues.
21 posted on 08/20/2006 8:05:57 PM PDT by tioga
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To: L.N. Smithee

Guess what?? I saw someone on CNN this afternoon that was talking about Photoshopped pictures, and doctored pictures. He used this cover as an example. It's not Ann Richards, just her head....


22 posted on 08/20/2006 8:06:57 PM PDT by sissyjane (Don't be stuck on stupid!)
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To: Halls
Local handwriting expert says he believes Karr wrote ransom note

Local phrenologist claims a cast of Karr's head shows him to be the one.
23 posted on 08/20/2006 8:08:10 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: Halls

Is this the same analysis that was reported in the POST today or is there a second that says they match?


24 posted on 08/20/2006 8:09:16 PM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: butternut_squash_bisque

It was a writing tablet from inside the house, no question. An intruder could have used it, however.

The not totally conclusive part was that Patsy wrote the note. She could not be ruled out, some said, and some apparently believed she wrote it. But it was not something so exact that you could say she was fingered.

They could not prove she wrote it, because if they could have, she would have been indicted.


25 posted on 08/20/2006 8:09:32 PM PDT by txrangerette ("We are fighting al-Qaeda, NOT Aunt Sadie"...Dick Cheney commenting on the wiretaps!!)
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To: tioga

I'm not hysterical, but I can't vouch for you.


26 posted on 08/20/2006 8:10:57 PM PDT by txrangerette ("We are fighting al-Qaeda, NOT Aunt Sadie"...Dick Cheney commenting on the wiretaps!!)
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To: txrangerette

A perfect "did NOT write the note" was a score of 5. John scored 5. Patsy scored 4.8 or 9. Perfect match would have been 1. Patsy didn't score 100% innocent, but she certainly wasn't any where close to scoring guilty. IMO It just gave the media something to write about.


27 posted on 08/20/2006 8:13:56 PM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: Rte66
“I have seen enough similarities in the samples and the ransom note to be convinced that the person who wrote this (the yearbook entry) is the same person who wrote this (the ransom note),” Lehew said. “A colleague of mine and I spoke together about the samples, and we found 13 separate similarities that are, in many cases, very unusual, and that makes it a match to me. It certainly indicates to me that John Karr did write the ransom note.”
28 posted on 08/20/2006 8:16:20 PM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: L.N. Smithee

That's a bad Photoshop job on the cover of that magazine. Of course, it was 1992, so things have gotten more sophisticated, but they could at least have had the head match the body size.


29 posted on 08/20/2006 8:16:55 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (The most important thing is sincerity. Once you can fake that, everything else is easy.)
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To: hoosiermama

Oh well, that must be why they didn't rule her out. LOL

Hadn't heard it quantified that way. Where did this info come from?


30 posted on 08/20/2006 8:16:58 PM PDT by txrangerette ("We are fighting al-Qaeda, NOT Aunt Sadie"...Dick Cheney commenting on the wiretaps!!)
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To: txrangerette
cnn
31 posted on 08/20/2006 8:18:04 PM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: hoosiermama

Let's hope it's accurate...


32 posted on 08/20/2006 8:19:52 PM PDT by txrangerette ("We are fighting al-Qaeda, NOT Aunt Sadie"...Dick Cheney commenting on the wiretaps!!)
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To: txrangerette

Thanks for the clariification, t. It's so long ago, that I just don't remember all the details and nuances. You're a blessing in the 'info dept'.


33 posted on 08/20/2006 8:20:54 PM PDT by butternut_squash_bisque (The recipe's at my FR HomePage. Try it!)
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To: Halls
Skeptical about the entire thing. Where does this guy get his money btw?
34 posted on 08/20/2006 8:22:01 PM PDT by ladyinred (Leftists, the enemy within.)
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To: txrangerette

Not you. LOL, the MSM has it bad.


35 posted on 08/20/2006 8:23:49 PM PDT by tioga
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To: ladyinred
Which guy, Karr? Seems like people have been asking that question for several years.......

Makes me wonder is he was a drug dealer, read from a New York Post article:

John Mark Karr was so smothering and jealous that friends say when Lara became pregnant with twins, which the couple wanted to name Angel and Innocence, he refused to take her to the hospital. The twins died in childbirth. "He was afraid the doctors would ogle her," said a classmate who lived nearby and would only be identified as Renae. "She was very pretty and he was obsessed with her. He had to be right next to her at all times." Shortly after their wedding, Karr brought Lara back to the town he grew up in, Hamilton, Ala. - much to her parents' alarm.

Although Karr projected an easygoing persona to some, pals who knew the couple in the tiny northwest Alabama town said he had a dark side that exploded in private.

They say he didn't work and they suspected he used drugs.

After the birth of the couple's first son, John, Karr threatened to kill Lara and the child, says Renae. She often escaped to a nearby graveyard.

36 posted on 08/20/2006 8:32:35 PM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: Halls
I need DNA proof!

And no, I don't believe your handwriting can determine if you are a pedophile or have the p[propensity to be one - so much for this handwriting expert.
37 posted on 08/20/2006 8:35:41 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: Halls

“Over the last three years, by collecting samples of known pedophiles, I have created a profile, by identifying the things that are common in their handwriting,” Lehew said. “I’ve looked at writing samples from 23 or 24 known pedophiles to create this profile. I’ve been doing this research for about three years.”

According to Lehew, his profile cannot identify if a person is a pedophile, only that they possess the propensity to be or become one.


38 posted on 08/20/2006 8:36:59 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: Halls
handwriting expertize is questionable.....

given the power of suggestion, I'll bet tons of people could fit.....thousands or millions of people...

and then there's me.....I don't think I write the same way from the beginning of a sentence to the end....

having said that, I am so hoping the place this pervert in Boulder.....because, I sense that he did do it and if not this murder, I'll bet he did others.....

39 posted on 08/20/2006 8:47:18 PM PDT by cherry (.)
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To: cherry

Heard one guy on FOX say that even if he didn't do it, he believes they are bringing him in on info that he may know about who DID do it.


40 posted on 08/20/2006 8:49:27 PM PDT by bonfire
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