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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TC, put me on the names ping list please?
Also, congrats on Vlad's teeth. Gracie is a week past seven months old...no teef yet, though she's trying. She's starting to crawl (OK, she gathers her knees under her and lunges forward into a faceplant, but it's a start) and is strong enough to almost bear all her weight on her legs, with help on balancing. Meep. Mobility is scary.
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WAY cool! We're official!
Gotcha on the list!
This is very early teeth and crawling for us. James was still toothless and slytherin at 14 months!
You really learn how dirty your floors are, when you've got a baby creeping!
She really does look like her, so much so that it's creepy.
A better question is, why did they agree to it. She was 13! Even in Alabama 22 years ago, she couldn't have married at 13 without her parents' consent.
That's what I can't figure out. If I wanted to do something at 13 and my parents didn't want me to do, my parents got their way every time.
Innocence, along with genuine romance, is apparently too much of a reminder of the depth of decadence to which we've sunk as a culture and therefore must be destroyed as soon as it is discovered. Too many people don't like what they see in that mirror.
He is in Colorado now and the intense interrogation begins plus taking DNA samples and his palm print
I wonder what Karr's mother looked like? If she had blonde hair and blue eyes, I'd say Karr has HUGE issues- beyond those he has made obvious.
Harris said that according to Michael Karr, the mother one day brought the boys into a room when they were living in Atlanta and "in a ceremonial setting she said she might do them harm, might get the devils out of them."
Harris said that he was not sure what the mother meant, but that Michael Karr took his brother to a neighbor's home, and the two were later raised by their grandparents in Alabama.
John Karr's mother was institutionalized, Harris said. She has since died.
Well its all fitting into a pattern now...
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