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Exclusive: 'I Married John Karr At 13'
ABC News/San Jose ^
| 8.23.06
Posted on 08/24/2006 7:56:34 AM PDT by apackof2
Quientana Ray was just 12 years old when she met John Mark Karr, the 41-year-old man under arrest for the 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey. Within a year, against her parents wishes, she and Karr, then 19, were married.
Ex-Wife Claims She Was Drugged, Abused
Ray said she met Karr at a party in Hamilton, Ala.,and he proceeded to seduce her. Her parents, Melissa and Larry Shotts, said they were opposed to the marriage.
The couple had a lengthy battle with Ray's parents over the relationship. According to Ray's parents, Karr became more defensive and threatening as they continued to oppose the couple's plans.
And Ray said Karr became a different person after they were married.
"I believed he loved me," she said. But her marriage to Karr lasted less than a year. That year, according to Ray, was a tumultuous one.
"I was drugged and things were done to me without me having any idea," said Ray, who is now married with a 4-month-old child.
In 1985, after nine months of marriage, Shotts filed for an annulment, complaining in court records that she was "fearful for her life and safety."
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TOPICS: Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: childmurder; co; jonbenet; karr; ramsey; tooweird; whitetrash; wife
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To: sully777
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posted on
08/24/2006 8:19:08 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Mother of a horde: it's not just an adventure - it's a job!)
To: apackof2
Well, that's reasonable. Might have been different law 22 years ago, though.
One first-cousin marriage is no big deal, genetically. It's multiple generations of it that zots the gene pool.
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posted on
08/24/2006 8:20:28 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Mother of a horde: it's not just an adventure - it's a job!)
To: sully777
That's pretty judgemental and quite rude, really
23
posted on
08/24/2006 8:21:12 AM PDT
by
apackof2
(They wait on you hand and foot so they can charge you an arm and a leg)
To: apackof2
If that would have been my 13 year old daughter, the battle would be short lived with him looking down the barrel of my shotgun.
24
posted on
08/24/2006 8:21:21 AM PDT
by
EX52D
(Life is a stage, and we are merely players...)
To: Tax-chick
If she were my daughter, my opposition to the relationship would have involved a convent for the girl and shallow grave in a lonely place for the man.
25
posted on
08/24/2006 8:22:00 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(If you want to be a martyr, we want to martyr you.)
To: Tax-chick
Might have been different law 22 years ago, though. Just what I was thinking
It's multiple generations of it that zots the gene pool.
True
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posted on
08/24/2006 8:22:37 AM PDT
by
apackof2
(They wait on you hand and foot so they can charge you an arm and a leg)
To: apackof2
Not bad. Not bad at all!
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posted on
08/24/2006 8:24:57 AM PDT
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: EX52D
I agree
Parents are supposed to protect their children
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posted on
08/24/2006 8:25:21 AM PDT
by
apackof2
(They wait on you hand and foot so they can charge you an arm and a leg)
To: Bigh4u2
To me she DOES look like a grown up Jon Benet Ramsey or what she very well could have looked like if she hadn't been brutally murdered
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posted on
08/24/2006 8:27:17 AM PDT
by
apackof2
(They wait on you hand and foot so they can charge you an arm and a leg)
To: apackof2
That's pretty judgemental and quite rude, really
For whom? The squirrel?
You must excuse me, down here in Oklahoma many of my neighbors will call such marriages, or squalid living conditions (poor and proud), as indications of being white trash. Many use the term ALBINO to emphasize the whiteness of the trash.
I'll alert my neighbors that this is no longer acceptable. They'll have to go back to the tried and true: Must be from Arkansas.
30
posted on
08/24/2006 8:29:44 AM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: apackof2
Yeah. Very close.
31
posted on
08/24/2006 8:29:56 AM PDT
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: apackof2
32
posted on
08/24/2006 8:31:33 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: Sacajaweau; Bigh4u2
Stunning similarity!!I thought so
Bigh4u2, thanks for posting the side-by-side
Although that's what is so sad to me, what Jon Bent DIDN'T get to look like
And not just JonBent but all the other little girls who were victims of such evil
It makes me ill and my heart breaks for the parents
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posted on
08/24/2006 8:35:23 AM PDT
by
apackof2
(They wait on you hand and foot so they can charge you an arm and a leg)
To: Little Ray
I would feel very strongly the same way.
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posted on
08/24/2006 8:36:00 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Mother of a horde: it's not just an adventure - it's a job!)
To: apackof2
"It makes me ill and my heart breaks for the parents"
I couldn't even imagine what I would be feeling if it had been one of my girls.
Sad indeed.
35
posted on
08/24/2006 8:38:29 AM PDT
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: Bigh4u2
That helps to explain Karr's obsession with poor JonBenet. She was his type.
I don't care how "harmless" beauty pageants are. In this day and age, parents should not put their little girls out on display. There are too many freaks roaming around.
36
posted on
08/24/2006 8:55:41 AM PDT
by
Cecily
(`)
To: Cecily
A 6 year old girl should not be wearing makeup and paraded around a stage. Period.
37
posted on
08/24/2006 9:01:54 AM PDT
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: apackof2
Criminy.... they're all coming out of the woodwork. If they're telling the truth about Karr, would it be admissable in court?
38
posted on
08/24/2006 9:06:41 AM PDT
by
fivecatsandadog
(Don't let reality ruin your day.)
To: Cecily
In this day and age,Sad but true
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posted on
08/24/2006 9:06:55 AM PDT
by
apackof2
(They wait on you hand and foot so they can charge you an arm and a leg)
To: Bigh4u2
40
posted on
08/24/2006 9:07:40 AM PDT
by
apackof2
(They wait on you hand and foot so they can charge you an arm and a leg)
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