Word: karr
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...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...
Immediately, questions about his credibility started to mount. Thai authorities say he told them he had drugged JonBenet. If he had, why did her autopsy find no evidence of drugs? Karr also reportedly told 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...
...trail that led police to Karr began with an anonymous e-mail he sent four years ago to Michael Tracey, a journalism professor at the University of Colorado who has produced three documentaries about the case--films that had piqued Karr's interest. In time there would be hundreds of e-mails, which Tracey would eventually show to Boulder County prosecutors, who were sufficiently intrigued to reinvigorate their investigation. Earlier this year, not long before Patsy Ramsey's death, one of the investigators even posed as her online to engage Karr in a series of e-mail exchanges. When Karr...
...real Karr? Until he was 12, he lived with his parents in Atlanta. Then, for reasons the family has not made public, he was sent to live with his grandparents in Hamilton, Ala. He attended high school there but dropped out in 1983, in the fall of his senior year. Not long after, he met and married 13-year-old Quientana Shotts. Their union was annulled in 1985 after Shotts filed a complaint alleging that Karr had forced her to wed him through "intimidation and fear." Four years later, he married again. This time his bride, Lara Knutson...