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[ghost]

[thrifty]

This is hardly worthy of mentioning on the Thailand forum let alone the Turkey forum.

A lise where I worked along with another teacher who was well known to be partial to young girls was reported to the principal for fraternising inappropriately and the principal's response was to tell the teacher in question to stay at least a metre away from any girl.

[Henry_Cowell]

The lise was reported???

How did that go exactly?

[ghost]

Karr had worked only two weeks at the exclusive "Christian College Elementary school" in Bangkok, Thailand, before being fired from that school, for reasons given that he (Karr) was 'too strict' with the students.

Karr had made a good impression at the interview for the job (Bangkok Christian Elementary school) and his previous experience and references helped him obtain that job....his last before being arrested a few days ago.

A foreign teacher on CNN reported that Karr came accross as a loner who preferred to do things his own way. The Principal of the school mentioned that Karr preferred to have a class of grade 1-3 students, and insisted on working without an Assistant (a rare occurence in Asia). A traveller at the guest house where Karr stayed at in Bangkok reported that Karr was a loner and kept to himself.

Karr, a slight, rather frail, but young looking 41 years old, appeared with Bangkok law officials and the F.B.I. in a televised interview, with Karr expressing his regret at losing the child he ''loved so much."

Karr told law officials that his relationship with the 6 year old was a 'love affair' and that her death was 'accidental.' His statements about his relationship with a 6 year old were bizarre, to say the least.

In other reports, Karr professed his understanding and admiration for Michael Jackson.

Karr will be flown back to the U.S. for justice to take its' course, and only time will tell whether his claims are true, and whether he really is the killer of the unfortunate child in question.

Ghost is not convinced that Karr actually killed the girl, and believes that Karr suffers from a kind of delusional fantasy.


Ghost

[ghost]

The more one learns about Karr, the more one is puzzled and baffled by his behaviour and attitude.

Karr left Bangkok today (August 20, 2006) accompanied by a huge crew of Thai police, F.B.I. agents, reporters and onlookers. Despite all this, Karr appeared to be in good spirits, and even held a toast to his 'hosts' (the F.B.I. agents) on board the Bangkok to Los Angeles flight - strange behaviour for someone (Karr) who faces very serious charges (murder and abduction of a child) which might see him face a life sentence.....

All this gives one (ghost) the impression that Karr might not be the man who actually killed the unfortunate child.

The fact that Karr made a good impression as a teacher in many of the places he taught at, also suggests that 'outward appearance/mask' that teachers give to others often does not reveal the true inner self. But then again, the best teachers, one often thinks, are merely 'actors' and this is what makes them successful in their chosen profession.

Ghost

[ghost]

[Henry_Cowell]

He's a fraud and an attention seeker.

His father told The Denver Post that while Karr was in college as an adult, a professor encouraged him to write a book about the Ramsey case after being impressed with a school paper.

"He researched everything he could about her," Wexford Karr said.

One of Karr's former wives, Lara Karr, told KGO-TV in California that her ex-husband spent a lot of time studying the cases of Ramsey and Polly Klaas, who was abducted from her Petaluma, California, home and slain in 1993.

Lara Karr said she was with her former husband in Alabama at the time of JonBenet's killing and she does not believe he was involved in the homicide.

He moved his family to California and in 2001, Karr found work as substitute teacher. But that came to an abrupt end when Karr, then 36, was arrested on five misdemeanor counts of possession of child pornography, according to the Sonoma County sheriff's office.

Two days after Karr was arrested on the pornography charges, his wife filed for divorce.

That is not the story Karr's father, Wexford Karr, says he was told at the time.

In an interview Wednesday with The Denver Post from his home in Atlanta, he said his son, told him he was being held in California as part of the investigation of the Ramsey case.

Wexford Karr said his son's intrigue with the Ramsey murder was the start of his troubles. That fascination began with voracious research for a college paper that so impressed a professor that the man suggested he write a book, Wexford Karr said.

[ghost]

Karr is innocent of the crime of killing JonBenet, according to reports which state that none of his (Karr`s) DNA matched the DNA found at the crime scene.

Karr is now facing the justice system on charges of possession of child pornography and related things.

One has to feel sorry for Karr, but one is mystified why anyone would confess to a crime they did not commit. There has to be a screw loose in Karr somewhere.

If you go by appearance and demeanour, Karr never looked like a killer from day one, but his strange obsession with the case will be recorded forever, but ironically this whole case might benefit him (Karr) in the long run, with possibilities of further press coverage, books and documentaries in the pipeline for the future, with monetary gain for Karr if he sells himself to the media. Certainly one of the most bizarre cases....

Ghost

[Henry_Cowell]

[newtefler]

tee hee... typical @ss covering speak.. alleged = we think he did it.... you think he did it... but we will use "alleged" to avoid any litigation for slander/defamation.

Another is... "Our current intention is.."... good for politicians.. if you don't deliver you haven't failed you've just had a rethink :0)

[Henry_Cowell]

[newtefler]

now to put the cat amongst the pigeons.. if the consensus thought he was innocent it would not be newsworthy.. unless on a gross miscarriage of justice point of view... and introducing alleged into the sentence makes no difference to the average Joe Bloggs.. newspaper inches = no smoke without fire. On the original post subject i thought he looked like a sad loner and wouldn't have put it past him.. but that's media for you. The same individual could have been described as a cold calculating killer... and many people would have believed what they read.. based on appearance... regardless of whether the subject is clearly nuts or not. One thing to consider.. he said he did it, the authorities claimed he did it - so technically what is to be alleged... both accounts had the same conclusion?

[Henry_Cowell]

tee hee

[newtefler]

Come on Mr C... all I was saying was that it wasn't fair to have a pop at Ghost.. He was just regurgitating news articles. I agree with your point about innocent until proven guilty. I was just saying that had an article used "alleged" it would be to cover the journalist's backside rather than for any altruistic reason.. and even if they did, the reader would draw their own conclusions from a shifty looking picture of the accused published alongside the article... oh and the fact the accused went to great lengths to set himself up as a suspect and claimed it was him that did it!

[dmb]

Do you reckon Karr could get a job in Istanbul?