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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...
...held up. "Most of the time you can discount a false confession immediately," Lacy said. "In this case, because he believes it himself, he has emotional impact. During phone calls, the man is sobbing. He has the psychopathy and he has knowledge of the family." JonBenet's father, John Ramsey, read Karr's e-mail messages and told Lacy that Karr's description of Patsy's relatives and the JonBenet-Burke relationship were "dead...
...city that had been gripped by the 1993 abduction and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas. According to his brother Nate, by that time Karr was working on a book about men who commit sex crimes against young girls and was preoccupied with the murders of Klaas and Ramsey. Karr and his family had moved to California so that he could take a job as a teaching assistant at a Catholic elementary school in San Francisco. That job too lasted only a few weeks, although school officials say he left of his own accord. Eventually he found work...
...this week, prosecutors will move to run tests to see whether his DNA matches samples found under JonBenet's fingernails and in her underwear. If they match, all the questions about his credibility will drop to the floor. If they don't, the murder of JonBenet Ramsey will go back into the unsolved-mystery file. And so will the story of John Mark Karr...
...Read the latest developments in the Ramsey case at time.com