Posted on 08/18/2006 2:38:01 AM PDT by beaversmom
As investigators puzzle over the life and mind of John Mark Karr, who has confessed to the killing of JonBenet Ramsey, they must unravel an elaborate and hazy narrative woven in part by Karr himself, much of it constructed around a clear and chilling theme — a yearning to be close to children.
Karr is a man who, while wanted as a fugitive on child-pornography charges, sought to impress prospective employers with a record of accomplishment preparing young lives "for a successful future."
He is a man who twice married teenagers — one just 13 at the time. Both would later claim they had been coerced.
And he is the man who confided to family members that he was deeply troubled by the slaying of the Colorado 6-year-old. He now claims to have loved and sexually assaulted her.
It's difficult to know how much to believe about the life Karr says he has led since JonBenet was found strangled and beaten a decade ago in the basement of her family's home.
"I awoke the children in the morning and gave them breakfast," Karr wrote in one online résumé, recounting life as a private teacher and caregiver for three girls in Germany, ages 7, 11 and 12. "At day's end, I made sure the children had their evening bath, then put them to bed and read to them before they went to sleep."
Karr, who arrived in Thailand earlier this year looking for work as a teacher, claims to have spent years skipping from job to job, country to country, nearly all the time working with children. Details proved difficult to pin down Thursday.
School officials in Alabama and California confirmed that he worked in both states as a substitute teacher in the latter half of the 1990s and in 2001.
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Even if he didn't kill Jonbenet...He needs to be locked up.
and he looks sick.
How the heck could he have married a 13 year old in this day and age? Who is this guy, Jerry Lee Lewis?
he is the creepiest lookin dude i ever saw... sorta like mr rogers on crack...
He has not been charged with committing a crime in Thailand, so I don't see how this would be a way to avoid jail there.
Goodness gracious.....GREAT BALLS OF FIRE.
This guy didn't do it.
Seems as tho John Ramsey has jumped on this man as the murderer a bit tooooo quickly, IMO.
It was when he was 19.
That's right, the state known as "South" has a minimum age to marry of 13. If you've ever watched Jerry Springer you koow it's true. (jack--s) By the way, I've seen more white trash from Massachusetts and Ohio in the South than home grown.
John Ramsey was actually one of the first people that said let's just see how it all plays out in court.
You're probably surrounded by it on all sides. Good thing you're a classy out of stater.
John and Patsy Ramsey did not kill their daughter, yet they have had to live and die under a cloud of suspicion. The Boulder police completely botched this case from the get go. Over and over I have heard their was DNA of a man under her fingernails that matches NOBODY in their household. The same with her panties and yet the Boulder police said it was Patsy that killed her. Wouldn't you be grasping as well to put this whole thing to rest so you and your family could be freed of the suspicion?
Is this scary or what? Why would anyone hire this guy to take care of three young daughters?
I have no use at all for John Ramsey.
My sympathy and prayers are totally for their precious little girl and their son.
I agree. I don't think her parents had anything to do with her murder either. I think the Boulder P.D. botched this case from the beginning and in their effort to nail the parents they allowed too much evidence and too many leads pointing elsewhere to evaporate.
That being said, I think this guy is a nutcase looking for attention. We'll have to see if the DNA matches.
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