Word: karr
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...Karr's past does raise suspicions. When he was arrested in Bangkok, he was living in a dormitory-like guesthouse in a neighborhood frequented by sex tourists. Before that, in 2001, soon after he moved to California, the Sonoma county district attorney issued an arrest warrant for one John Mark Karr on five counts of child pornography, after the suspect failed to appear in court. (It isn't yet certain that warrant was for the same John Mark Karr, but it seems likely.) The name John Karr is also associated with the online domain PowerWurks.com, apparently launched in 1996, whose...
...Meanwhile, Karr's brother Nate, who hasn't spoken with him in five years, told Fox News that his brother's fascination with pedophiles and predators stemmed not from pathological obsession, but from an intent to write a book about men who commit crimes against children. Nate has also said that he thinks his brother wrote to Polly's convicted killer in prison. Karr also said he wrote several letters to JonBenet's mother Patricia, who died of cancer two months ago, expressing remorse for having murdered her daughter...
...Marc Klaas, Polly's father, says that the name "John Karr never crossed my path in any way, shape or form" until Wednesday. He admits, however, that he gets a lot of e-mail from cranks, and might have deleted Karr 's missives. Still, he 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...
...course, Karr's putative pedophilia would not make him guilty of murder. Nor would it explain why Karr might have killed JonBenet. "A child molester who abducts and kills his victim is the rarest kind of molester," says Ken Lanning, a former FBI agent who has spent more than three decades studying crimes against children, and currently operates his own consulting company. Questions and inconsistencies in Karr's story make Lanning cautious about believing Karr's claims. "My reaction to all of this is that until [the police] independently corroborate what he's confessing to, it doesn't mean anything...
...possible that Mark Karr is delusional or that he is - more incomprehensibly - simply lying. At least one former acquaintance of Karr's considers this a distinct possibility. Janice Myhan, a professor of education at the University of North Alabama, says Karr was prone to telling outlandish lies. Myhan taught and advised Karr when he attended UNA from 1998 to 2000, where he majored in early childhood education. Karr was diminutive and intense, Myhan recalls, and frequently peppered her with questions from the front row, stopping her in mid-sentence to get her to repeat her words, so he could copy...