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...Mystery of the Double Cardiac Arrest Even surgical residents used to the heady rush of "codes" occasionally encounter emergencies that throw them for a total loop
...couch as a trampoline while declaring his love for future wife Katie Holmes. And coming just weeks after Disney's decision to drop out of a Holocaust TV miniseries project with Mel Gibson following the torrents of negative publicity about Gibson?s anti-Semitic comments during his DUI arrest, it's an indication that in this celebrity-gossip-saturated age, even stars with stellar box-office records are no longer immune from career reverberations when they get entangled in controversy and public opinion turns against them. "This bespeaks something about where the industry is and where it's going," lamented...
...same, police and prosecutors in Boulder, Colo., where JonBenet died, must have had significant evidence to persuade a Colorado judge to issue the warrant for Karr's arrest. "There is a fairly lengthy sealed warrant," says L. Lin Wood, the Ramsey-family attorney. "[Boulder County district attorney] Mary Lacy believes she's got the guy." Investigators say privately that Karr knows things about JonBenet's death that only the killer could know. And then there was the tantalizing detail reported last week by the Rocky Mountain News that investigators in Lacy's office were in contact with a high school...
Then suddenly there was Karr, saying he was the one. Or sort of saying it. At the press conference in Bangkok at which Thai officials announced his arrest, he described his role in the crime with an odd circumlocution. "I was with JonBenet when she died," he said. Detached, tentative, composed sometimes to the point of affectless, he added that the killing was "an accident"--a strange way to describe the death of a girl who suffered a massive blow to the head and was strangled with a cord. When he hesitated before answering certain questions, you wondered whether...
...Karr, that was a turning point. He spent five months in jail. His wife took their three sons and began divorce proceedings. Two months later, when he failed to show up for a court appearance, a warrant was issued for his arrest. Karr spent the next five years on the run in Europe, Central America and Asia, working as a teacher wherever he could and eventually landing in Bangkok. When police moved in last week, he was living in a shabby ninth-floor hotel room. He had just started yet another job, as a second-grade teacher...