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Is John Mark Karr guilty or innocent?

 
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Is John Mark Karr guilty or innocent?
guilty
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 16%  [ 2 ]
innocent
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 50%  [ 6 ]
not sure
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 33%  [ 4 ]
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tomato



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.

PostPosted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:13 pm    Post subject: Is John Mark Karr guilty or innocent? Reply with quote

What do you think?
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Rteacher



Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA

PostPosted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm not sure...

I haven't followed it all that closely, but it's hard to believe that they would extradite him all the way from Thailand and formally charge him with murder without at least some proof beyond a few suspicious emails and his vague confession...

If all they have additionally is a possible handwriting match to the letter found at the scene it might not be enough to counter family members' testamony that he was always at home for Christmases...

So, I think that they need convincing DNA evidence (or someone like Mark Furman willing to plant some...)

Absent hard evidence, it seems likely that he's just a somewhat deranged guy looking for notoriety - and maybe publicity for his book. But, then again, he just may have been able to inconspicously slip away from home (ten years ago...) long enough to fly to Denver and back. And, he does have a murderous look to his eyes...
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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And, he does have a murderous look to his eyes...


To me his gaze looks more "disconnected" than anything else..... although undoubtedly there has to be a good measure of "disconnectedness" needed to do what he's confessed to.
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Milwaukiedave



Joined: 02 Oct 2004
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have to think his confession doesn't hold water. He's in it for the attention it is bringing him. The guy has some serious mental health issues as well as an unhealthy attraction to children, that doesn't make him a killer though.

My guess is that the DA and police are going to have more egg on their faces when he's either aquitted or the charges are dropped.
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tomato



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It turns out that he is innocent.
Why do you suppose he made up the story?
Probably because he wishes he was a girl, wishes he was a beauty queen when he was a girl, and would like to closely associated with a child beauty queen.
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jinju



Joined: 22 Jan 2006

PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why bother analyzing the retard? He's a sick attention *beep*. Thats all. Not a killer but a pedophile.
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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 7:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

tomato wrote:
It turns out that he is innocent.
Why do you suppose he made up the story?
Probably because he wishes he was a girl, wishes he was a beauty queen when he was a girl, and would like to closely associated with a child beauty queen.


He was an attention whor e.
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okokok



Joined: 27 Aug 2006

PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wonder, does he still think he did it?
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daskalos



Joined: 19 May 2006
Location: The Road to Ithaca

PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I guess it depends on the further question, "Innocent of what?" Of killing JonBenet Ramsey? I guess that's what the DNA says. My guess, though, is that there's a lot he isn't innocent of, legally actionable or otherwise.
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Julius



Joined: 27 Jul 2006

PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 10:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Guilty.

Of being an idiot.

Kill him.

Give his life savings to the family involved, whos time he wasted.
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