Teddy bear link to JonBenet slay suspect?

posted at 4:29 pm on August 19, 2006 by Allahpundit

Creep-tastic!

Students of Prof Michael Tracey, who Karr emailed for four years, recalled him describing a chilling photo sent by the suspect.

A bear being hugged by Karr in the boyhood snap was said to be the same as the one that appeared briefly in JonBenet’s bedroom after her slaying in Boulder, Colorado, on December 26, 1996.

No one in the Ramsey family remembered seeing it before and it apparently vanished before police could seize it as evidence.

What are the odds that someone obsessed with the case, who had studied its details minutely and talked compulsively about it to complete strangers, would purchase a teddy bear similar to the one found in the house and pose with it for a photo? (Update: A “boyhood snap”? See below.)

Pretty good, I’d say.

And what are the odds that local police in California, investigating him five years ago on child-porn charges, would have discovered his obsession with the case and speculated that, perhaps, he might have been involved?

Also probably pretty good.

And the odds that a guy who’s into kiddie sex, harboring a strange fascination with murdered little blonde girls, with not one but two child brides to his record, would prove sufficiently freaky-deaky to his students to make them wet themselves in class?

Fair to strong, I’d imagine.

Armchair diagnosis right here.

Update: Tanya points out in the comments that the photo of Karr with the bear was taken when he was a kid. I completely missed that. Time to dial down the skepticism a bit.

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This cat is certifiable. Next thing you know, we’ll find out he likes to drop trou and pee on airplanes.

From a link:

“Patient or Pretender: Inside the Strange World of Factitious Disorders,” “The Spectrum of Factitious Disorders,” and “Stranger Than Fiction: When Our Minds Betray Us.”

Should be required reading for the left.

JammieWearingFool on August 19, 2006 at 5:03 PM

Okay, this guy is very close to passing creepy and becoming a full blown Batman villain.

Number 2 on August 19, 2006 at 7:20 PM

I keep telling you people ->

Patsy did it!
No John did it!
No Jon Benet’s brother did it!
No Patsy did it!
No John did it!

No matter what, we know from the media it has to be one of these three, two of them or all of them, after all the media is fair and unbiased about these things!

Umnumzana on August 19, 2006 at 8:03 PM

Boy, is that Karr not the freakiest guy in the world? Ick!

Catie96706 on August 19, 2006 at 11:46 PM

What are the odds that someone obsessed with the case, who had studied its details minutely and talked compulsively about it to complete strangers, would purchase a teddy bear similar to the one found in the house and pose with it for a photo?

The photo is purportedly of Karr as a child with the bear, so he’d have had the bear long before JonBenet was born. Which is kinda freaky. So, maybe he was there with his childhood teddy bear. Or, maybe he has Photoshop.

We know one thing for sure. That boy is looney tunes.

Pablo on August 20, 2006 at 6:34 AM

Michael Jackson without money. This is whats happens. The end of the road is Thailand where drugs and kids are cheap, unless you are stupid enough to molest Thai kids in the schoolroom.

Then comes: Thai jails. That would be enough to confess to any American crime just to get extradited. Even a death penalty conviction in the U.S. would get you a longer lifespan than Thai jails.

My skin crawls just reading about this centipede.

entagor on August 20, 2006 at 12:33 PM

I’m not charging any thing – just asking a question. Maybe somebody can refresh my memory. Didn’t I read in one of the ‘Tabs’ several years ago that Jon’s daddy was tied to some internet child porn thing? I know – I know the ‘Tabs’ are full of a lot of crap but if this is true maybe that could be a possible connection with this creep and and this creep’s possible connection and easy access to Jon Benet. Bizzare? Maybe so but so is this whole nasty case. I always had a creepy feeling about daddy Ramsey. He was just too calm and unemotional about his daughter being murdered. Can anybody admit that they read the ‘Tabs’ and remember this story being printed?

OBX Pete on August 20, 2006 at 2:19 PM

I don’t get it. He bought a matching teddy bear, and then regressed thirty years to take the picture? Admittedly, they don’t show the photo at that link, but it says “boyhood snap.”

No more fauxtos, please. I can’t handle it.

Tanya on August 20, 2006 at 3:05 PM

I totally missed that about the boyhood snap. Good grief.

Allahpundit on August 20, 2006 at 3:08 PM

Didn’t anybody notice that Mr. Karr has breasts? Methinks that he has gone further than body hair removal in his quest to become a whatever.
Could be he wanted the ultimate disguise…

BeeCharmer on August 21, 2006 at 6:40 PM