Word: guilts
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...Karr didn't kill JonBenet Ramsey, he won't be the first to confess voluntarily to a crime he didn't commit. The motivation for these phony admissions, says criminologist Jim Fisher, author of Fall Guys: False Confessions and the Politics of Murder, can be "mental illness or extreme guilt over another crime, or they're just yearning for the attention a big case brings, the chance to be in the history books...
...confession, is still sifting through the evidence and proceeding with exceptional caution. "There have been no charges filed at this time," Lacy pointed out. "There is a presumption of innocence." She also seemed to suggest that the arrest may not have been prompted by a certainty about Karr's guilt so much as concern that he might flee, or that he poses a danger to the public...
...sketchy portrait of Karr emerging from documents and accounts of his former acquaintances and family suggests that this peripatetic grade-school instructor is, at the very least, a complicated man who clearly takes a keen interest in crimes against children. That in itself says nothing about his guilt or innocence. Karr' s ex-wife Lara told a California television station that he was as obsessed with the murder of Polly Klaas - a 12-year-old girl who was abducted from her home in Petaluma, Calif., in 1993 - as he was with the JonBenet murder. But she also insists he could...
...says, his experience with followers of sensational crimes leads him to doubt that Karr has anything to do with JonBenet 's murder. "With Karr, you're dealing with a guy who seems to be obsessed with little dead girls," says Klaas, pointing out that aside from the admission of guilt, Karr appears to have "no connection" to the crime itself. It isn't yet clear how - or if - Colorado police established that Karr was in their state when JonBenet was murdered. Ramsey family attorney H. Lin Wood, however, says he doubts prosecutors would make such a high-profile arrest without...
...Yasukuni is a losing diplomatic issue for Japan, but there's always been support at home, especially among older Japanese who feel they deserve a place where they can pay respect to their millions of war dead without guilt. Although he had never visitied the shrine before he ran for Prime Minister in 2001, Koizumi made an election promise to pay his respects at Yasukuni if he won. That pledge won him key support from conservatives, and in the following years Koizumi deftly used Yasukuni to score political points at home. The louder China and South Korea would complain...