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Just weeks after reviving the public's interest in a case many had long forgotten, investigators now say the trail for JonBenet Ramsey's killer has gone as cold as ever. After years without a serious suspect, the abrupt dismissal of the burgeoning case against admitted pedophile John Mark Karr has made investigators wonder what's next. "There's a very high level of frustration. But we still very much hope it will be solved," said Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy, sounding defensive in a hastily convened press conference to explain how the case against Karr disintegrated. But Lacy...
...Lacy changed course on Karr when it became clear that his DNA didn't match what was found at the scene of the crime. Her motion to quash the arrest warrant, though, quickly shifted attention away from Karr's delusional confessions toward Lacy's own handling of the investigation. Colorado Governor Bill Owens lambasted the DA for conducting what he called the most most extravagant and expensive DNA test in Colorado history, and Lacy said an evening caller told her she deserved to be tarred and feathered. At the press conference Tuesday Lacy defended her strategy and pledged...
...probable cause to arrest him," Lacy said. "I'm not embarrassed. You do your best with what you have, and what you have changes hour to hour." Both because Karr could have fled authorities and because he was in a position to harm young girls as a teacher in Thailand, Lacy said, she felt an obligation to bring him in for questioning. And he seemed a credible confessor with inside knowledge about JonBenet. He knew, for instance, about the bracelet on JonBenet's arm, although it turned out that it had been mentioned in the autopsy report. And he wrote...
...point out - and that she wasn't sufficiently skeptical of a mentally troubled trickster. If Lacy was duped, however, it was by a man perhaps as savvy as he is disturbed. In an extensive exchange of e-mail messages released by the DA upon the dismissal of the case, Karr anticipated doubts about his confession. In communicating with Colorado University Professor Michael Tracey, who eventually passed along Karr's e-mails to authorities, Karr had tried to coach Tracey on convincing the Ramseys that Karr was the true killer...
...Concerning their fear that this might be a hoax," the 41-year-old schoolteacher wrote, "I would appreciate it if you state, 'It is my strong judgment - correction, that I know that this is not a hoax, that the communication should be taken very seriously.'" Karr added that the fact that he had been slow in revealing himself as the killer should be further proof "that I was not seeking overnight notoriety." But in a separate passage, he writes: "I want to discuss the book and our collaboration. There must be some way we can manage...