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John Mark Karr (born December 11, 1964) is an American teacher who was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 16, 2006, for the long-unsolved murder of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey.[1] Ramsey was found beaten, strangled, and possibly sexually abused in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado, on December 26, 1996. Karr has said he was present when Ramsey died, calling her death an "accident." Authorities reportedly tracked Karr down via e-mails he sent to Michael Tracey, a journalism professor at the University of Colorado.[2]

Karr was deported from Thailand[3] and flown to Los Angeles, California,[4] where he waived his right to contest extradition to Boulder, Colorado. He is currently in the Boulder County jail and is reported to be facing charges of first degree murder, kidnapping, and sexual assault,[1][5] although doubts have been expressed about the veracity of his admission.[6]

Contents

Background

Early life

Karr was born in Conyers, Georgia[7] and spent his early childhood in Atlanta.[8] His father, Wexford Karr, married Patricia Elaine Adcock on August 21, 1958, when he was 37 and she was 18, according to court documents. Wexford filed for divorce in 1973 eleven years after the marriage in Clayton County, Georgia, saying the marriage was "irretrievably broken," and that the boys were in his custody. Soon after, Wexford Karr, then 52, married 29-year-old Susan Simpson, his neighbor in the same apartment complex.[9] His marriage with Simpson ended in divorce six months later.[8]

A family friend, Jonathan McCrary, has said that Karr's mother believed John Karr was possessed by demons. His mother allegedly built a pyre of kindling around him and attempted to burn him alive as an infant. Adcock was committed to the Central State Hospital, a mental institution, in Milledgeville, Georgia, and later lived in a group home, according to her stepmother, Shirley Adcock.[9][10]

Karr moved to Alabama to live with his grandparents when he was about 12 years old. He grew up in Hamilton,[8] and graduated from Hamilton High School in 1983.[11] According to his brother, Nate Karr, John was at the top of his high school class.[12]

Karr also sold used cars and was known in his Alabama town for his car, a red DeLorean with gull-wing doors.[13] Karr returned to live in Atlanta at least twice: once to attend one semester at Riverwood High School in Sandy Springs from January to May in 1981, and again some years after graduating from high school in Alabama.[8]

Marriages and divorce

In 1984, when he was 19 years old, Karr married a 13-year-old girl[14] named Quientana Shotts, according to Shott's mother, Melissa Shotts. Karr evidently told Quientana to lie about her age, and took her out of Alabama, where they both lived, to marry her. Karr and Shotts lived together as a couple in Hamilton after their wedding, and Karr "was abusing her every way there was," according to Melissa Shotts.[15] Court records show that, in 1985, a 14-year-old girl sought an annulment of what the records call a "ceremonial marriage," saying she had feared for her life when she agreed to marry Karr in 1984. Karr admitted to the court that she was a minor, but disputed she had been 13. The marriage was annulled[14] in 1985. Shotts later remarried and is now named Quientana Ray.[16]

Karr married Lara Knutson[17] in Alabama on May 19, 1989, when he was 24 and she 16 and pregnant. She was carrying twin daughters who were delivered via a home birth on September 1, 1989. The girls, named Angel and Innocence, died later that day. The couple went on to have three boys in close succession, in 1990, 1992, and 1993.[18][19] The couple divorced in 2001 following Karr's arrest for five misdemeanor counts of possession of child pornography in Petaluma, California.[20][12] In the divorce petition, his wife wrote that Karr was never physically violent towards her, but that he was "very controlling" of her. A restraining order against Karr was granted.[18] Knutson said he purposely set out to get her pregnant, telling her the pregnancy would allow them to skirt the law and get married, according to statements she made in divorce records.[8]

Career

Karr had been working as a substitute teacher in Petaluma, but Bob Raines, a superintendent and principal at Wilson School in Petaluma said he was an ineffective teacher: "He just seemed like somebody who thought he wanted to be a teacher... After a few days, I could see it just wasn't for him."[21] He worked from December 2000 through March 2001 in as many as 14 schools in the Petaluma, Old Adobe, Liberty and Wilmar elementary districts.[22] His last paycheck for teaching work in Petaluma was issued in April 2001, the same month that he made his first court appearance for the aforementioned pornography charges. When he failed to show up for a readiness conference in December 2001, a judge issued a warrant for his arrest, which was still outstanding as of August 2006.[20]

John Mark Karr also operated a Day Care Center in northwest Alabama. The Marion County Department of Human Resources issued a license for Karr to begin operating a day care out of his home in June 1997. Under the license, Karr was allowed to care for as many as six children at a time, ranging in age up to 14 years old.[23]

Possible gender reassignment

As Karr was being deported from Thailand on August 20, 2006, it was reported that staffers at a clinic in Bangkok that specializes in gender reassignment therapy said Karr had sought treatment there.[24] According to press reports, Dr. Thep Vechavist of the Pratunam Polyclinic reported that Karr was "one of [his] patients,"[25] but refused to provide further details.[24] Vechavist later denied telling reporters that Karr was one of his patients.[26] While stating that he would not necessarily remember Karr out of "hundreds of patients", Vechavist said that he had seen Karr's photo in the newspapers and that Karr didn't look as if he were seeking to change his gender.[26] Vechavist also said that he would have prescribed drugs to a sex change patient. According to Suwat Turongsiskul of the Thai immigration police, only a computer and clothes were found in Karr's room, and no drugs.[26] Dr. Setthakarn Attakontan reported that Karr had facial hair removed, was considering gender reassignment surgery, and was undergoing castration.[27]

Purported online material

After the announcement of Karr's arrest, news sources found and reported on various online material, the contents of which appear to be from or by him. This includes two online résumés, posts made to Usenet newsgroups, a website and email addresses belonging to the same domain as the website.

Résumés

On August 16, many news organizations cited two online résumés posted on sites based in South Korea and Los Angeles,[28] which carried the same photograph of a man who strongly resembles Karr.[29] The Los Angeles website, belonging to a firm that recruits English teachers, removed the résumé from its site on August 16. The Seoul-based GnB English institute said it had never employed Karr, and that the résumé in question on a webpage for its Canadian branch was open for postings by anyone looking for teaching jobs.[29]

Powerwurks.com

The name John Karr was associated with a website called PowerWurks, apparently created sometime in 1996. The site, which was referred to in multiple Usenet postings,[30] was used "to trawl for young girls on the Internet," according to Time magazine.[31] Computer experts claim that a man matching Karr's description was using the Internet in 1996 in an effort to meet children for sex.[32] A Usenet post made by a John Karr on March 9, 1996 to the alt.support.loneliness newsgroup describes the purpose of powerwurks.com:[33]

PowerWurks is a support organization for kids, teens and college students but all ages are welcome. We provide a safe and private environment where you can freely and comfortably express your thoughts and feelings on any subject. No subject is banned from discussion. All conversations are strictly confidential and that's a promise!!

The powerwurks.com domain name was inactive for several years, and on August 17, 2006, was purchased by Shawn Nemat.[34][35] The site now contains various pieces of information attributed to John Mark Karr.

Usenet postings

In 1996, about the time the powerwurks.com website was created, multiple posts were made to various Usenet newsgroups by a John Karr. In one post Karr described himself as a 31 year old with 3 young children, and that he planned to attend college and major in elementary education. One post purported to be from a 23-year-old woman named Lara, which coincided in both name and age to Karr's then-wife Lara. The posts were made to newsgroups dedicated to topics like "parents-teens", "personals", and groups frequented by students from elementary through high school. The posts contained references to the powerwurks.com website, and some described the purpose of the site.[30]

Many of the posts asked questions of students regarding relationships and sex. One post posed the question, "The legal age to consent to sex, in many states of the U.S., ranges from 14 to 16. Do you think the age should be raised or lowered, and why?".[36] Another, posted to a group frequented by elementary-age children, queried "Is sex among people under 10 a rarity or common place? [sic]"[37] The messages ended around spring 1996, and it is not known if the powerwurks.com website continued to be maintained after that time. [30]

E-mail

The email correspondence between Colorado University Professor Michael Tracey and Karr began when Karr contacted him about his documentary on the JonBenét case and spanned four years. Karr never revealed his name.[38] On the day before Christmas Eve 2005, Karr sent an e-mail to Tracey, seeking a favor. He asked Tracey to visit JonBenét Ramsey's old house in Boulder and read aloud an ode he called JonBenet, My Love, shown in this e-mail excerpt:[39][40]

Michael,

We tried this once before. I wrote a wonderful message to JonBenet. You never delivered it. We talked about a memorial but it never came to be. That message would have surfaced but I no longer have access to all the mails I have sent to you from Europe. I will attempt a short message here. Please read it aloud to JonBenet at her house on Christmas. For that, you would be doing me a great favor.

JonBenet My Love,

You are with me. Your lovely glow surrounds me whenever I roam. Your light shines beyond the darkness. Once so close to you, now, your spirit speaks louder than your words, louder than once did your laughter – that spirited, funny, lovely laughter that no one speaks of in remembrance of you though we know that it once existed and now exists in a place beyond this life. JonBenet, my life, my life, I love you and shall forever love you. I pray that you can hear my voice calling out to you from the darkness – this darkness that now seperates us. We shall meet again and laugh together once more as we did in this life. If there is to be a life for me after this one. I pray that it will be with you – together forever with you and other little girls who are gone now from my life forever, this would be my Heaven. God rest thy lovely soul.

JonBenet, my love – I love you forever.

D

Tracey and Karr exchanged hundreds of e-mails during a four-year span, the content of which gave rise to Tracey's suspicions about Karr's potential involvement in the JonBenét murder.[39] Tracey eventually revealed his concerns to investigators working the case privately. They, in turn, provided the emails to prosecutors at the Boulder District Attorney's Office[39] sometime in May 2006.[38]

Arrest

Break in JonBenét case

Months before Karr's deportation, the Boulder District Attorney's office received copies of the suspect's emails from University of Colorado journalism professor Michael Tracey, who received the emails from a person with the email address "December251996@yahoo.com". December 25, 1996, was the date of JonBenét's murder. At least one of the emails was signed with the signature "Daxis". The tracking of the author began sometime in June 2006.[41]

Armed with the email address and Internet provider, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) determined the general location of the suspect in Thung Maha Mek, a neighborhood in Bangkok, Thailand. At the time, the suspect's name was not known.[41]

The break in the case came when Karr sent an envelope to Tracey by regular mail with a return address bearing the name of a major throughfare in Bangkok, Thailand, but no number or cross street.[41] Tracey sent Karr another kind of mail – a photograph delivered to a Thai post office box. Agents arranged a controlled delivery and were ready to spot their suspect. The man who arrived to pick up the mail delivery was using a 21-speed bicycle, the purchase of which was mentioned in e-mails sent by the suspect. The agents followed Karr to his residence and learned his name.[42]

On August 11, 2006, they notified ICE officials, and from that point on, Karr was placed under surveillance by Thai immigration officials.[41] A sealed arrest warrant, signed by Boulder County District Judge Roxanne Bailin,[43] was sent by the Boulder District Attorney's office to officials in Thailand on August 15, 2006. The next day, upon receipt of the warrant, Thai immigration authorities revoked Karr's visa.[41]

Detainment in Thailand, deportation to United States

Karr was detained in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 16, 2006. Karr said he was with JonBenét when she died,[44] and told a press conference that her death was an accident.[1] He said: "I love JonBenét," and "I was with JonBenét when she died; she died accidentally."[1] When asked if he was an innocent man, he said: "No."[6] Lieutenant General Suwat Tumrongsiskul of Thai Immigration Police said that Karr admitted he tried to kidnap JonBenét Ramsey for an $118,000 ransom to be paid by the Ramseys, but that he strangled her after his plan went awry.[45] While he was detained in Thailand, officials there had Karr on a 24-hour suicide watch.[46]

Karr had a dinner of paté, green salad with walnut dressing, fried king prawns with steamed rice and broccoli, a can of beer, a glass of French chardonnay, a glass of champagne and a piece of Valrhona chocolate cake for dessert while he sat in the business class[47] of the Thai Airways Boeing 747-400 he took to the United States.[48] Experts, such as Denver attorney Larry Posner, have speculated that Karr was given the food and drink to get him to start talking about his involvement in the murder of JonBenét:

 What the cops want most is this guy to talk. They say he is not under arrest. Then they do not put him in handcuffs on the plane. And they say he is over the age of 21, free to drink, he is therefore free to talk.[49]
  If Karr says something incriminating that is challenged in court, the investigator who was sitting next to him simply says he was never in my custody.[49]  

As Posner stated, Karr was not handcuffed during the flight. On August 20, 2006, about 9:20 p.m. PST, the airliner touched down at Los Angeles International Airport. After being admitted into the country, Karr was arrested at the airport on a warrant from Boulder County, Colorado[43] by the waiting officers of the LA County Sheriff's Department, and taken by helicopter to Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown Los Angeles. Citing Sheriff's Department policy regarding inmates who are "accused child molestors", deputies stated that Karr was held in isolation while he was at the facility.[50][51]

Extradition to Colorado

On August 22, 2006, John Mark Karr waived extradition during a three-minute hearing in Los Angeles County Superior Court, clearing the way for his transfer to Boulder.[52] According to CNN, on his way back to the correctional facility after the extradition hearing, Karr was quoted as telling an officer, "Everybody says I couldn't know my way around the house, but I got in the house around 5 o'clock ... and I stayed there all night."[53]

On August 24, 2006, Karr was handcuffed and driven by Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies onto the tarmac at the airport in Long Beach, California. He boarded a State of Colorado Beech King Air twin turboprop airplane, which took off at about 3:45 p.m. EST.[54] Karr arrived more than 3 hours later at Jefferson County Municipal Airport located in Broomfield, Colorado, between Boulder and Denver,[55] and then was driven to the Boulder County Jail.

Although Karr has not officially retained legal counsel, two California-based attorneys, Patience van Zandt (who worked with Karr on his 2001 child pornography case) and Jamie Harmon are serving him in an advisory capacity.[56] Harmon has said that both attorneys will be involved in his case.[57] Apparently due to the high-profile coverage of the arrest, three dozen lawyers have offered to represent John Mark Karr – for free in many cases – against the charges.[58]

In court

Karr's first appearance in Boulder County Court is scheduled for today. He has not been formally charged yet in JonBenet's death. [1]

Ramsey family reaction to Thailand arrest

Patsy Ramsey, the mother of JonBenét, died from ovarian cancer on June 24, 2006; the Ramsey family had been made aware of the investigation into Karr a month before Patsy Ramsey died. John Ramsey, JonBenét's father, commented shortly after hearing of the arrest that his wife "would no doubt have been as pleased as I am with today's development almost 10 years after our daughter's murder."[5]

Pam Paugh, Patsy Ramsey's sister, said her phone had been "ringing off the hook" since the announcement of the arrest. She said the scene at her family's house in Charlevoix, Michigan, reminded her of the prior home scene after JonBenét's death, adding that family members are "glued to the television, trying to find out as much as they can."[59]

Family attorney Wood said Wednesday's news underscores the parents' innocence amid lingering speculation, adding, "...there were still doubts in the minds of individuals whose thinking had been poisoned against this family because of the years of false accusations."[59]

Evidence cited by the media

Allegedly incriminating

  • Karr's writings in a school yearbook bear resemblances to the ransom note:
    • The school yearbook belonging to a female classmate of Karr's may provide the link between Karr, the yearbook, and the Ramsey ransom note. The ransom note is signed with the initials "S.B.T.C." In the yearbook, Karr ended his signature with the line, "Though, deep in the futuRE, MAYBE I SHALL BE THE CONQUERER [sic] AND LIVE IN MULTIPLE PEACE ANGELICY. [sic] FOREVERMORE..................Philosophy of a DREAMER."[60][61]
    • Handwriting expert Curt Baggett says that the writing in the yearbook and on the ransom note are so similar that he gives it 99.9% that the ransom note was written by Karr.[62]
  • Karr's first wife Quientana Ray made several statements on the television show "Good Morning America" possibly linking Karr to the crime:[63]
    • Karr revealed to Ray that he had fantasies about little girls.
    • While they were married, Ray said that she was drugged by Karr, and that "things were done to her" without her knowledge.
    • Karr wrote letters to Ray that were signed with the initials "SBTC".
  • Michael Rains, lawyer for Lara Karr, said that Lara found her ex-husband “emotionally abusive" to their children, and that she was checking to see if she could determine Karr’s whereabouts at the time Ramsey was killed.[64]
  • According to Time magazine, Karr operated a website and posted messages to public forums in an attempt to make contact with female children.[31]
  • In late March and early April 2001,[65] while living in California, Karr confessed to Wendy Hutchens that he met JonBenét at her family's 1996 Christmas party, and that he broke into the house later that night through a downstairs storm window. She notified the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department and provided recordings of her conversations with Karr as evidence. This prompted authorities to search Karr's home, during which they discovered child pornography.[66] Authorities are not commenting on why charges were not filed at that time in relation to the JonBenét case.
  • Karr had been communicating via e-mail with University of Colorado journalism professor Michael Tracey prior to his arrest. Some of Tracey's students reported that someone anonymously sent Tracey a childhood photograph of himself holding a teddy bear similar to the one that was found in JonBenét's bedroom after the murder. The bear, which was never collected as evidence, did not belong to the girl, according to her parents.[67] Investigators made a plea for information about the bear in 1999, however, and eventually concluded that the girl had won the bear in a pageant about two weeks before her murder.[68]
  • CBS reported that Karr’s emails to Tracey contained specific information that had not been made public, about a check stub for $118,000 on John Ramsey's desk, and about the basement and a staircase in the Ramsey home.[69]
  • According to an online CNN news report, Karr told authorities specific, unreported details about the condition of JonBenét's body known only to investigators and the medical examiner.[70]

Allegedly exculpatory

Some skepticism has been expressed about Karr's apparent admission, because of alleged inconsistencies between the evidence and his statements, as reported. This has led to speculation that his admission may constitute a voluntary false confession:

  • Although he reportedly confessed to drugging JonBenét,[71] the autopsy found no drugs or alcohol in her system.[72][73][74]
    • Thai officials later denied that Karr claimed that he drugged JonBenét.
  • Although he reportedly said that he picked her up from school and brought her back to her home, it was winter break, and there was no school that day.[71]
    • Thai police have since said that Karr made no such claim.[75][74]
  • Karr's ex-wife, Lara, has stated that Karr was in Alabama with her during the entire 1996 Christmas season when Ramsey was killed.[76] Her attorney, Michael Rains, said that furthermore "she sincerely believes that there was no Christmas anytime between approximately 1989 when they were married and the year 2000 when her husband was not with her and her family at Christmas."[77]
    • Rains later said that her statement was not an effort to establish an alibi for Karr, nor a vote of support for him.[64]
  • Karr's father, Wexford Karr, said his son had never been to Colorado and had no connection to the crime except for his interest in writing about it.[78]
  • Karr's brother has stated in interviews that he spent time with John during the Christmas season in December 1996. At the time, Karr lived in Alabama and his brother lived in Georgia.
  • Karr's father, Wexford Karr, has an undated photograph that places his son's three children in Atlanta, Georgia, on Christmas day, 1996. Karr's father states that the sons never travelled to Atlanta for Christmas without their father.[79]
  • Karr was not well-off financially, and would have been hard-pressed to pay for a flight to Colorado. Neither his wife at the time, nor his father or brother, recall Karr taking a long trip around the Christmas season.[79]
  • Some U.S. legal experts are puzzled by Karr's statements and behavior.[80] There is concern that the Thai police may have helped shape his comments while in custody. According to Richard Ofshe, a foremost expert on false confessions, the kind of language used by Karr during a press conference was a classic example of the type heard after a police interrogation. Police are trained to use language that softens the severity of the crime; they often suggest that the crime was an accident in order to obtain a confession. To Ofshe, Karr's use of the words "accident" and "unintentional" are not consistent with the murder, which he believes was not accidental. Further, most criminals that eventually confess do so voluntarily, by first turning themselves into authorities. Karr, on the other hand, had traveled across the world, requiring authorities to go to further lengths to bring him into custody.[81]

Defense attorney Larry Posner said, "Is this just an obsessive guy craving his 15 minutes of fame? There are those people who confess under circumstances where we immediately know, this is real. This isn't one of them."[71] Craig Silverman, another Denver attorney and former prosecutor said, "This confession is nonsensical, and it appears to be delusional. To claim this was an accident is ridiculous."[71]

Notes

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