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...told, 400,000 people fled or were evacuated out of the city of New Orleans, where the current population is still half the pre-Katrina level. Taking in those who also left Mississippi, Alabama and other regions of Louisiana, 1.5 million people have applied for FEMA relocation assistance, according to the Appleseed study...
...HABITS If you're in Alabama, don't dress up as a nun, priest or rabbi for Halloween. Impersonating "a minister of any religion" is punishable by fine or jail...
...police that on the day of the murder, he picked up JonBenet from school. Not possible: she was killed during Christmas vacation. Strangest of all, Karr's ex-wife Lara says that during the Christmas season of 1996, the time of JonBenet's death, Karr was with her in Alabama...
Short-lived jobs are a theme of Karr's résumé. In the spring of 2000, while studying early-childhood education at the University of North Alabama, Karr became a student teacher at the Kilby Professional Laboratory School. But school administrators soon called him in to discuss complaints about his behavior with fifth-grade girls. Karr failed to show for the meeting. Shortly thereafter, he dropped out of North Alabama, just weeks before graduation...
...Nobody has suggested yet that Karr behaved inappropriately with his students in Thailand. The same cannot be said for his stints as a teacher in the U.S. Gary Williams, assistant superintendent of Alabama's Franklin County School System, confirmed to TIME that John Mark Karr worked as a substitute teacher there on December 17, 18 and 19, of 1996, just days before JonBenet Ramsey was murdered. He continued as a substitute teacher until May of 1997. While there, the elementary-school principal reprimanded Karr for behaving inappropriately with students. "She suspected some things and confronted him," said Williams. "He made...