[Vision2020] Doubts Linger in JonBenet Case

[Andreas Schou]

> DNA evidence brings its own set of questions.  One then is:  Was the DNA
> evidence sent to the test lab a plant?

In 999 cases out of 1000, this is idiotic conspiracy theorizing.

-- ACS

> W.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Campbell" <joekc at adelphia.net>
> To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
> Cc: "'Moscow Vision 2020'" <vision2020 at moscow.com>; "Joan Opyr"
> <joanopyr at moscow.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 7:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Doubts Linger in JonBenet Case
>
>
> >I have fears that they do not have the right guy in the JonBenet case.
> >
> > My only hope is that there is something that the authorities know about
> > which we don't. Otherwise it seems that the actions of the authorities are
> > pretty irresponsible. Last night on CNN it was reported that no one has
> > even talked with Karr's ex-wife about any of this, not before Karr's
> > arrest and not after his arrest when she put in a call to the police in
> > Colorado telling them that Karr was with her in Atlanta at the time of
> > JonBenet's murder. Again, hopefully they know something we don't know. In
> > any event, the DNA evidence should clear things up soon.
> >
> > --
> > Joe Campbell
> >
> > ---- Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> >
> > =============
> >>From today's (August 18, 2006) Spokesman Review -
> >
> >>From the article:
> >
> > "If John Mark Karr is telling the truth, he picked up 6-year-old JonBenet
> > Ramsey at school, took her home to drug and rape her, and then
> > accidentally
> > killed her nearly 10 years ago.
> >
> > But schools were closed for the Christmas break when JonBenet died . . . "
> >
> > As the article suggests, it will all come down to DNA.  If there is a DNA
> > match, it becomes a slam dunk.  If the DNA does not match . . .
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Doubts linger in JonBenet case
> > Despite confession, questions remain
> >
> > Catherine Tsai and Jon Sarche
> > Associated Press
> > August 18, 2006
> >
> > BOULDER, Colo. - If John Mark Karr is telling the truth, he picked up
> > 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey at school, took her home to drug and rape her,
> > and then accidentally killed her nearly 10 years ago.
> >
> > But schools were closed for the Christmas break when JonBenet died and the
> > coroner found no evidence of drugs or sexual assault on the little girl's
> > body. And few experts believe that a girl who was slowly strangled with a
> > garrote was killed by accident. There are even questions whether Karr was
> > in
> > Colorado at the time of the slaying.
> >
> > The doubts have led some to wonder whether the 41-year-old Karr is the
> > answer to the long-unsolved slaying of the child beauty queen or a
> > disturbed
> > wannabe trying to insert himself into a high-profile case.
> >
> > "We should all heed the poignant advice of John Ramsey," said Boulder
> > County
> > District Attorney Mary Lacy, quoting the girl's father. "Do not jump to
> > conclusions, do not rush to judgment, do not speculate. Let the justice
> > system take its course."
> >
> > Experts said the questions surrounding Karr's story put more pressure on
> > corroborating evidence such as DNA.
> >
> > "They either have a miss or a match on the DNA," former Denver prosecutor
> > Craig Silverman said. "If it's a miss, the prosecution has serious
> > problems.
> > If it's a match, then it's game, set and match for this case. Couple the
> > DNA
> > with the kooky confession and it's enough for most people to convict."
> >
> >
> > That confession came Thursday when the sullen Karr was paraded before a
> > raucous crush of reporters in Bangkok, Thailand. Karr told how he loved
> > JonBenet, was with her when she died but that her death was an accident.
> > And
> > while vague on the details - "it would take several hours" - he answered
> > flatly when asked if he was innocent: "No."
> >
> > "The bottom line is that they now have a confession and until and unless
> > they can corroborate that confession with either physical evidence or
> > strong
> > circumstantial evidence, that's all they have," said Scott Robinson, a
> > Denver attorney who has followed the case from the beginning.
> >
> > Karr told investigators he drugged and sexually assaulted the little girl
> > before accidentally killing her in her Boulder home, according to a senior
> > Thai police officer who was briefed about the interview with U.S.
> > authorities.
> >
> > Yet JonBenet's autopsy report found no evidence of drugs, saying her death
> > was caused by strangulation after a beating that included a fractured
> > skull.
> > And while it describes vaginal injuries, it makes no conclusions about
> > whether she was raped. Investigators later concluded there was no semen on
> > JonBenet's body.
> >
> > According to Thai police, Karr also said he picked JonBenet up at school
> > and
> > took her back to her home. But the slaying came during the holiday
> > vacation
> > season.
> >
> > Karr's ex-wife told TV reporters she cannot defend him, then insisted he
> > was
> > with her in Alabama during Christmas 1996, when JonBenet's battered body
> > was
> > found in the basement of her home. And authorities have not said whether
> > Karr could have written the detailed ransom note found in the Ramsey home,
> > with its demand for $118,000 (the bonus that had recently been awarded to
> > the girl's father, John Ramsey).
> >
> > Even the Colorado professor who swapped four years' worth of e-mails with
> > Karr and brought him to the attention of prosecutors in May refused to
> > characterize the suspect either as killer or kook.
> >
> > "I don't know that he's guilty," said Michael Tracey, who teaches
> > journalism
> > at the University of Colorado. "Obviously, I went to the district attorney
> > for a reason, but let him have his day in court, and let JonBenet have her
> > day in court, and let's see how it plays out."
> >
> > Karr himself added to the mystery, telling the Associated Press in Bangkok
> > that JonBenet's death was "not what it seems to be."
> >
> > Asked what happened when JonBenet died, he said: "It would take several
> > hours to describe that. It's a very involved series of events that would
> > involve a lot of time. It's very painful for me to talk about it."
> >
> > Also unclear is whether Karr - whose record includes a 2001 arrest on
> > misdemeanor counts of possession of child pornography - had any previous
> > relationship with the Ramsey family, though both have ties to suburban
> > Atlanta.
> >
> > District Attorney Lacy refused to discuss the case during a brief news
> > conference and suggested Karr's arrest may have been forced by concern
> > over
> > public safety and fears the suspect might flee.
> >
> > "There are circumstances that exist in any case that mandate an arrest
> > before an investigation is complete," Lacy said.
> >
> > Karr was arrested at a Bangkok apartment Wednesday, a day after he began
> > teaching second grade at an international school, Lacy said.
> >
> > Hours later, Thai authorities sat him before a crowded room of news crews.
> > Karr stunned reporters by admitting: "I was with JonBenet when she died.
> > Her
> > death was an accident."
> >
> > "I am so very sorry for what happened to JonBenet," Karr told the AP.
> >
> > DNA was found beneath JonBenet's fingernails and inside her underwear, and
> > authorities have never said whether it matches anyone in an FBI database.
> > U.S. and Thai officials did not directly answer a question at a news
> > conference about whether there was DNA evidence connecting Karr to the
> > crime.
> >
> > Karr was given a mouth-swab DNA test in Bangkok, according to a law
> > enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the
> > ongoing investigation. The results of that test were not immediately
> > known.
> > Karr will be given another DNA test when he returns to the United States
> > in
> > the next several days, the official said.
> >
> > Lin Wood, the Ramsey family's longtime attorney in Atlanta, said Karr went
> > to great lengths to conceal his identity in e-mails to the university
> > professor, going so far as to use a computer server in Canada.
> >
> > Asked if authorities could tell whether Karr had firsthand knowledge of
> > the
> > murder or had just picked up information from news accounts, Wood said:
> > "There is information about the murder that has never been publicly
> > disclosed." He did not elaborate.
> >
> > Karr's ex-wife, Lara Karr, was quoted by San Francisco television station
> > KGO saying she does not believe he was involved in the homicide.
> >
> > Denver attorney Larry Pozner, past president of the National Association
> > of
> > Criminal Defense Lawyers, said there were "serious questions" about the
> > case.
> >
> > "I hope we have found the murderer of JonBenet, but I have not heard the
> > evidence that compels that conclusion," he said.
> >
> > Karr's description of the case as an accident also rang false to experts.
> >
> > "It's hard to imagine a more intentional, deliberate murder than hitting a
> > little girl in the head so hard that she had almost a foot-long fracture
> > in
> > her skull and then deliberately fashioning a garrote to twist until it
> > buries in her neck and slowly stops her breathing," said Silverman, the
> > former Denver prosecutor. "This has always been a case of deliberate
> > murder."
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Seeya round town, Moscow.
> >
> > Tom Hansen
> > Moscow, Idaho
> >
> >
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> >
> > "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism"
> >
> > - Thomas Jefferson
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