Thursday, August 17, 2006

Dial D for Murder

D representing "drama" of course...

I normally don't get into this shit, but it's got an interesting twist;

BANGKOK, Thailand - A former American school teacher said publicly Thursday that he was with JonBenet Ramsey when she died in what he called "an accident," a stunning admission after a decade without answers in the 6-year-old girl's murder. But the suspect's ex-wife said she was with him in Alabama at the time of JonBenet's 1996 death.

"I was with JonBenet when she died," Karr told reporters afterward, visibly nervous and stuttering. "Her death was an accident."

Asked if he was innocent of the crime, Karr said: "No."

As he was escorted to his guesthouse to pick up his belongings, Karr told The Associated Press: "I am so very sorry for what happened to JonBenet. It's very important for me that everyone knows that I love her very much, that her death was unintentional, that it was an accident."

He told the AP he made "several efforts to communicate with Patricia before she passed away," referring to JonBenet's mother, who died in June, "and it is my understanding that she did read my letters."

No evidence against Karr has been made public beyond his own admission. U.S. and Thai officials did not directly answer a question at the news conference Thursday about whether there was DNA evidence connecting him to the crime.

Karr's ex-wife, Lara Karr, told KGO-TV in California that she was with her former husband in Alabama at the time of JonBenet's killing and she does not believe her former husband was involved in the homicide.

She said her ex-husband spent a lot of time studying the cases of Ramsey and Polly Klaas, who was abducted from her Petaluma, Calif., home and slain in 1993.
Oh k. I think what we've got here is an OCD nutzoid who is wanting to claim responsibility for the crime, and has probably convinced himself that he did it.

It'll be easy enough to check I suppose. There was a ransom note. Simply have an expert compare this nut's handwriting to the letter. DNA would be nice as well.. but it's just so odd they haven't claimed any other evidence, and what this guy has been doing and saying sounds really insane and stalkerish.

2 comments:

lord brown mouse said...

Clever..Have you ever thought of joining the police force?

Tom said...

I think I would have a pretty good criminal investigator. The skills needed are the same sense of logic that my engineering job requires.

If I had it to do over, I might go that route.. but my current job is less stressful and pays a whole lot better.