Is John Mark Karr Really JonBenet Ramseys Killer?
John Mark Karr’s confessed killing of JonBenet Ramsey has made for sensational headlines and reopened a case long thought unsolvable, but the main question yet to be fully explored is whether the JonBenet obsessed Karr actually had the means, motive, and opportunity to commit the crime. The evidence – as is stands now – is decidedly less definitive than Karr’s Thai jailhouse confession. First, some of Karr’s claims (as reported) about the murder do not match even the most rudimentary facts known about the case. Karr claims that JonBenet was drugged, but no drugs were noted in any of the autopsy reports. Karr claims to have picked up (or kidnapped) JonBenet from school and taken her to the basement, but it’s inconceivable that JonBenet was in school on Christmas day – the day of the murder. The most vexing question is whether Karr was in Boulder in 1996. John Mark Karr’s ex-wife says he was home in Alabama on December 25, 1996. Karr’s brother has said that Karr spent Christmas with the
