Isn’t it time to change the name of that city from Bangkok to I don’t know…anything

Rustyw on August 17, 2006 at 12:42 PM

The Boulder DA’s office worked with officials in Thailand and spent months locating, finding and arresting Karr. Much work has been done, but there’s much more to be done while the suspect is in custody, Lacy said.

An official with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said that Karr, a former teacher in California, already has a criminal record of sex offenses in Southern states near his former homes in Alabama and Georgia.

Although authorities collected DNA samples from JonBenét, none matched family members or anyone else tested.

Sonoma County authorities charged Karr with five counts of possession of child pornography in April 2001. When he failed to appear for a court date the following December, a warrant was issued for his arrest.

“We have had no contact with him since,” said Sgt. Rob Giordano of the sheriff’s department.

Thai officials disputed U.S. reports that Karr already was in custody on unrelated sex charges, but labeled him an “undesirable person” because of the accusations against him.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_4190797

Rustyw on August 17, 2006 at 1:41 PM

Oh great and wise Allah,

Why has your past wisdom cast a scornful eye on the Ramseys? Yet now you allow your mercy to fall on Karr?

Allah truly works in mysterious ways.

Rustyw on August 17, 2006 at 1:56 PM

Eventually, other details emerged which competed with the original picture. Though there was no sign of forced entry, there was that small broken window into the basement that had been left open. Though there were no footprints in the snow, there was no snow on the part of the lawn that would need to be crossed to get in through the window. There was a footprint near the body left by a Hi-Tec boot. There was a latent handprint on the doorframe that didn’t match any of the Ramseys’. If you looked closely, there were marks on the child’s back and neck that were consistent with the use of a stun gun. The garrotte was viciously tightened: would a parent kill their child that way?

For those committed to the intruder theory, there was no shortage of strange characters, though none was ever charged. Bill McReynolds had played Santa at the Ramseys’ Christmas party three days earlier, for the third year in a row. He had been given a tour of the house, so he would have been familiar with its complicated geography, and he had written JonBenet a Christmas card saying that Santa would be giving her a ’special present’ after Christmas. It was found in her rubbish bin after her death. On the very same day in 1974 – Boxing Day – McReynolds’s nine-year-old daughter had been abducted with a friend, and had witnessed the sexual molestation of her friend. No suspects were ever found. In 1976, McReynolds’s wife Janet had written a play in which a young girl is molested, tortured, murdered and left in a basement. Bill McReynolds died in 2002.

Other suspects cropped up: there was Gary Oliva, a convicted sex offender who had been seen hanging around the alleyway at the back of the house. He had spent time in prison for raping a seven-year-old girl in Oregon, and talked about making bacon out of a little girl’s skin. In March 1997, a tip came in about Oliva: he had called a friend on 26 December and sobbed hysterically, saying he had done something terrible to a little girl. A year later, he attended JonBenet’s memorial service. Four years later, two weeks before Christmas, he was arrested on the Colorado University campus for trespassing. The policeman who made the arrest searched his backpack and found a stun gun, a photo of JonBenet and an ode to her.

Chris Wolf, a freelance journalist, became a suspect when his girlfriend called the police and said he had stormed out of the house on Christmas night and come back the following morning, with muddy clothes. He became furious when he saw news reports of JonBenet’s death on TV. The ransom note was signed ‘S.B.T.C’; Wolf had a sweatshirt bearing those initials – they stood for Santa Barbara Tennis Club. He had written an article about John Ramsey’s company, Access Graphics, and may have had access to information about his bonus. He was a friend of Bill McReynolds. The theory that there was more than one intruder has been seriously considered.

But the suspect who looked most likely was dead within two months of the murder. Michael Helgoth seemed to have shot himself the day after District Attorney Alex Hunter announced they were closing in on the killer. But this, too, began to look like murder. Helgoth was right-handed, but the trajectory of the fatal bullet went from left to right. In Helgoth’s apartment were found a pair of Hi-Tec boots, a stun gun, a baseball cap with the letters ‘SBTC’ on it, and a videotape of a news story about the unsolved kidnap and murder of a six-year-old girl. If there were two assailants, could the other have silenced this one?

Rustyw on August 17, 2006 at 7:31 PM