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JonBenet

After ten years of questions, suspicians, and accusing, an arrest has been made in the murder case of JonBenet Ramsey.
SOURCE Story from CNN A law enforcement source identified the suspect as 41-year-old John Mark Karr, a one-time schoolteacher and American citizen who has lived in Conyers, Georgia.

It is the first arrest in the decade-long investigation of the 6-year-old beauty pageant contestant's slaying. The case was the subject of suspicion and speculation and provided years of fodder for the news networks and the tabloids.

Karr had been communicating with someone in Boulder and that online communications played a key role in leading authorities to him, law enforcement sources said.


Greta from FOXNEWS had the suspects brother ( Nate Karr) on tonight- who seems to have come up with a "idea" on how this could have happened. He believes that a mistake has been made, as he says that Karr was actually writing a story on men who kill young children, and had been investigating the case for sometime. However, as of recently difficulty in obtaining police records and such had discouraged him from continuing to work on the book. Her page can be found here, and more than likely within the next few hours or so there will be a transcript up of the interview. *Link Added

I watched the entire report. And, it made me wonder. Now, I've never personally been one to desire to write a book (hey I can barely get ya'll to comment, let alone expect you to pay to read what I write :D), but I have however, taken more than one story a little personally, and investigated it more deeply than others may think is necessary. I know a few details of a few stories that I don't share. I've got suspicions on a few things that I don't share. And I know that other crime bloggers are in the same boat I am. We feel connected to certain stories, for whatever reasons, and go the extra mile to learn everything we can about it. That being said, I can't quite wrap my head around the fact that this arrest is the "mistake" the brother is claiming.

To be fair to the brother, I can't put myself in his shoes. I can't imagine hearing that my flesh and blood- the person I grew up with- could commit such a heinous crime. And, if given the choice between accepting it, and crossing my fingers and praying that it's a mistake- I'd be on my knees in a heartbeat. And, until I had undoubtable proof, I'd be standing strong beside my brother, insisting that he was innocent. I feel for Karr's bother, it's a difficult place that he is in right now. As we've seen in the past, family members often are blamed for their loved ones actions. And I hope that in this case, there isn't any of that going around.

That being said, it doesn't look good for John Karr:

John M. Karr taught in California until he was stripped of his teaching credentials following a 2001 arrest on child pornography charges, authorities said.

Sonoma County Chief Deputy District Attorney Joan Risse confirmed the pornography charges and an outstanding arrest warrant against Karr, though she cautioned she didn't know if he was the same person held in the Ramsey case. State records also show Karr lost his teaching credential in 2002.

A Petaluma woman who said she was Karr's ex-wife told KGO-TV in San Francisco that they got divorced after his arrest.

Laura Karr said her ex-husband spent a lot of time reading up on the cases of Ramsey and Polly Klaas, who was abducted from her Petaluma home and slain in 1993. She said she does not believe her former husband was involved in JonBenet's killing and said she was with him in Alabama at the time of the Christmas 1996 homicide.

Karr's brother, Nate Karr, said his brother's alleged involvement was a misunderstanding.

"It's ridiculous, without a doubt," Karr told WAGA-TV in Atlanta.

He declined further comment, saying that the family would have more to say Thursday. Karr said his brother had worked as a teacher in Alabama, and more recently in California. Continue reading FOx Story


For documents on the case, see the Smoking Gun

Hat Tip to Butch
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