Quad18star
08-29-2006, 05:29 AM
Well it looks like the sicko won't be charged with the death of JonBenet Ramsey after all . DNA tests have proved what he said was false and there are no links to him being at the crime scene .
Even though he's facing multiple counts of possession of child pornography , they should still send him to jail for life for saying he killed her .
I had a feeling from the start that he wasn't the one that murdered her and that he was just some sicko looking for attention ... but I was hoping it was him so that closure could finally come to the case .
Here's the lastest story in the news .
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Karr won't be charged in JonBenet murder
Prosecutors said they will not charge John Mark Karr in the murder of JonBenet Ramsey Monday, because DNA tests can't place him at the murder scene.
CTV.ca News Staff
John Mark Karr rides in a police vehicle as he arrives back at the Boulder County Jail in Boulder, Colo., Monday, Aug. 28, 2006. (AP / Rick Bowmer)
The 41-year-old school teacher's court appearance, scheduled for Monday, was cancelled.
A Boulder police spokesman said Karr would remain in police custody and held pending extradition to California, where he faces charges on five child pornography counts.
In court papers filed Monday, prosecutors suggested that Karr had a sick fascination with with the six-year-old beauty queen but confessed to a murder he didn't commit.
"Because his DNA does not match that found in the victim's blood in her underwear, the people would not be able to establish that Mr. Karr committed this crime despite his repeated insistence that he did," District Attorney Mary Lacy said in court papers.
Prosecutors said they first began looking at Karr as a suspect in April, after being alerted to emails and phone calls he exchanged with a Colorado professor. In those exchanges, Karr claimed he was responsible for the murder.
Karr told the professor he killed JonBenet accidentally during sex. He also claimed he had tasted her blood after injuring her vagina. But Denver crime lab test results on a cheek swab taken from Karr didn't match DNA found at the crime scene.
"This information is critical because ... if Mr. Karr's account of his sexual involvement with the victim were accurate, it would have been highly likely that his saliva would have been mixed with the blood in the underwear," Lacy said in court papers.
Lacy also said no evidence could be found that placed Karr in Boulder at the time of the murder.
Lawyers for Karr said that he should never have been brought to Boulder in connection with the charges.
"We're deeply distressed by the fact that they took this man and dragged him here from Bangkok, Thailand, with no forensic evidence confirming the allegations against him and no independent factors leading to a presumption that he did anything wrong,'' public defender Seth Temin said.
In court papers, Lacy defended the decision to arrest Karr, saying it was the only way to get a DNA sample from him without warning him that he was being investigated.
Prosecutors feared that he would flee, she wrote. And a second factor also spurred the DA to act, court papers said.
Karr, who was teaching in Thailand, had begun describing a sexual interest in some of his pupils, "in much the same terms that he had described his interest in JonBenet," Lacy wrote.
Authorities in Thailand confirmed prior to his arrest that he was involved with one of the girls, she said.
This is the latest twist in a bizarre story that first began in Thailand less than two weeks ago.
After being taken into custody, Thai authorities allowed him to hold an unusual news conference, where he spoke of his involvement in the crime.
"I was with JonBenet when she died," Karr told reporters in Bangkok after his arrest. "Her death was an accident."
When asked if he was innocent, Karr said: "No."
After his arrest, there were many questions about discrepancies in his story. His ex-wife came forward to say Karr was with her and their three sons in Alabama or Georgia every Christmas during their marriage, and he could not have committed the crime.
JonBenet was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's Boulder home on Boxing Day, 1996.
The theory that an intruder killed JonBenet is supported by unexplained evidence: a mysterious boot print found outside the house after her body was found Dec. 26, 1996; marks on her body some say could have been made by a stun gun; and signs that someone may have entered the house through a basement window.
Then there is the DNA of an unknown male found in blood in JonBenet's underpants. Tests in 1997 and 1999 indicated it was from a male who was not a member of the Ramsey family.
Karr left the United States several years ago, and had traveled to Thailand at least five times over the last two years, according to officials.
He had just started a job as a Grade 2 teacher at an international school in Bangkok when he was arrested.
Karr left the U.S. after he was charged in 2001 with possession of child pornography in Sonoma County, Calif.
With files from The Associated Press
Even though he's facing multiple counts of possession of child pornography , they should still send him to jail for life for saying he killed her .
I had a feeling from the start that he wasn't the one that murdered her and that he was just some sicko looking for attention ... but I was hoping it was him so that closure could finally come to the case .
Here's the lastest story in the news .
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Karr won't be charged in JonBenet murder
Prosecutors said they will not charge John Mark Karr in the murder of JonBenet Ramsey Monday, because DNA tests can't place him at the murder scene.
CTV.ca News Staff
John Mark Karr rides in a police vehicle as he arrives back at the Boulder County Jail in Boulder, Colo., Monday, Aug. 28, 2006. (AP / Rick Bowmer)
The 41-year-old school teacher's court appearance, scheduled for Monday, was cancelled.
A Boulder police spokesman said Karr would remain in police custody and held pending extradition to California, where he faces charges on five child pornography counts.
In court papers filed Monday, prosecutors suggested that Karr had a sick fascination with with the six-year-old beauty queen but confessed to a murder he didn't commit.
"Because his DNA does not match that found in the victim's blood in her underwear, the people would not be able to establish that Mr. Karr committed this crime despite his repeated insistence that he did," District Attorney Mary Lacy said in court papers.
Prosecutors said they first began looking at Karr as a suspect in April, after being alerted to emails and phone calls he exchanged with a Colorado professor. In those exchanges, Karr claimed he was responsible for the murder.
Karr told the professor he killed JonBenet accidentally during sex. He also claimed he had tasted her blood after injuring her vagina. But Denver crime lab test results on a cheek swab taken from Karr didn't match DNA found at the crime scene.
"This information is critical because ... if Mr. Karr's account of his sexual involvement with the victim were accurate, it would have been highly likely that his saliva would have been mixed with the blood in the underwear," Lacy said in court papers.
Lacy also said no evidence could be found that placed Karr in Boulder at the time of the murder.
Lawyers for Karr said that he should never have been brought to Boulder in connection with the charges.
"We're deeply distressed by the fact that they took this man and dragged him here from Bangkok, Thailand, with no forensic evidence confirming the allegations against him and no independent factors leading to a presumption that he did anything wrong,'' public defender Seth Temin said.
In court papers, Lacy defended the decision to arrest Karr, saying it was the only way to get a DNA sample from him without warning him that he was being investigated.
Prosecutors feared that he would flee, she wrote. And a second factor also spurred the DA to act, court papers said.
Karr, who was teaching in Thailand, had begun describing a sexual interest in some of his pupils, "in much the same terms that he had described his interest in JonBenet," Lacy wrote.
Authorities in Thailand confirmed prior to his arrest that he was involved with one of the girls, she said.
This is the latest twist in a bizarre story that first began in Thailand less than two weeks ago.
After being taken into custody, Thai authorities allowed him to hold an unusual news conference, where he spoke of his involvement in the crime.
"I was with JonBenet when she died," Karr told reporters in Bangkok after his arrest. "Her death was an accident."
When asked if he was innocent, Karr said: "No."
After his arrest, there were many questions about discrepancies in his story. His ex-wife came forward to say Karr was with her and their three sons in Alabama or Georgia every Christmas during their marriage, and he could not have committed the crime.
JonBenet was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's Boulder home on Boxing Day, 1996.
The theory that an intruder killed JonBenet is supported by unexplained evidence: a mysterious boot print found outside the house after her body was found Dec. 26, 1996; marks on her body some say could have been made by a stun gun; and signs that someone may have entered the house through a basement window.
Then there is the DNA of an unknown male found in blood in JonBenet's underpants. Tests in 1997 and 1999 indicated it was from a male who was not a member of the Ramsey family.
Karr left the United States several years ago, and had traveled to Thailand at least five times over the last two years, according to officials.
He had just started a job as a Grade 2 teacher at an international school in Bangkok when he was arrested.
Karr left the U.S. after he was charged in 2001 with possession of child pornography in Sonoma County, Calif.
With files from The Associated Press