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...that Karr had forced her to wed him through "intimidation and fear." Four years later, he married again. This time his bride, Lara Knutson, was 16. By 1996, Karr was a student at Bevill State Community College in Hamilton, Ala., and was working in Marion County as a substitute teacher. But in November of that year, he was removed from the county's roster of substitutes after complaints by parents about his behavior in class. JonBenet was killed the following month...
Short-lived jobs are a theme of Karr's résumé. In the spring of 2000, while studying early-childhood education at the University of North Alabama, Karr became a student teacher at the Kilby Professional Laboratory School. But school administrators soon called him in to discuss complaints about his behavior with fifth-grade girls. Karr failed to show for the meeting. Shortly thereafter, he dropped out of North Alabama, just weeks before graduation...
...large recreational vehicle plastered with yellow-and-blue laffey for senate signs. A mystical average-folks communion is taking place: a whole lot of folks on Lionel Avenue have been watching the local news and have seen the ad. "My mother has Alzheimer's," a woman says. A retired teacher named Mary Monahan says, "I'm voting for you. I've been waiting to tell you personally," a reference to Laffey's habit of descending on unsuspecting neighborhoods with his horde, dashing from house to house. He and his troops wear sneakers, shorts and blue baseball hats with his name...
...paid work, but many foreigners flout the rule, and school administrators, eager for the cachet that comes with expatriate instructors, tend to turn a blind eye. Thailand is, however, a favored playground of globetrotting drifters. "You never really know who you're talking to in Bangkok," says an Australian teacher in St. Joseph's English immersion program who met Karr during his brief tenure there. "We've all got a past...
...officials who raided his shabby quarters in Bangkok on Wednesday. Doubts about the veracity of his confession have only multiplied since he volunteered it to the world on Thursday. But it's probably safe to assume that Karr's fruitless quest to become a grade-school teacher has finally come...