Arrest in JonBenet case: More about pedophile obsession than murder…

PSA: Please do not believe anything you read or hear (especially on Cable TV) about this case, until (DNA) evidence is presented in a court of law which implicates the defendant on trial.

Almost a decade ago, when the bizarre circumstances of JonBenet Ramsey’s death dominated all the news that was fit to print (and all the gossip enquiring minds wanted to know), I developed the reasonable suspicion that her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, were jointly and severally responsible. And, regretfully, the spectacle surrounding yesterday’s arrest of the reputed pedophile John Mark Karr has done nothing to alter my suspicion.

It’s pointless, however, for me to proffer a prima facie case for their guilt. Instead, I shall suffice to remind or inform you of the following incriminating details, which placed them under “an umbrella of suspicion”:

Expert analysis of the ransom note, which the prosecutor’s expert said implicated the mother (may she RIP), their refusal to speak to the police without the other spouse being present, their refusal to submit to an FBI-administered polygraph test and the flight out of state within 24 hours after reporting JonBenet’s death were only some of the dubious circumstances that led to my firm suspicions. (And, their claims of passing polygraph tests administered by a battery of experts-for-hire were hardly persuasive.)

Now comes the perverted, publicity-seeking psycho, John Mark Karr, claiming that his love for JonBenet led him to her home where, in the act of making tender love to her, he killed her, accidentally (by bashing her head in and stangling her with a noose).

But here’s a little informed speculation for you:

John Karr intends to drive his patently concocted confession for much longer than the 15 minutes of fame he’s due. He exhibits the passive-aggressive confidence of knowing that he has set in motion the global legal and media inertia that will guarantee his infamy for at least 15 months or the rest of his life, whichever comes first.

After all, in addition to a clearly disturbed mind, Karr presented yesterday with the classic symptoms of a man withering away from the ravages of HIV/AIDS. And it requires only elementary deduction to conclude that he must have contracted the virus from one of the girls (or boys) he rented during one of his sex tours in Thailand – the pedophile capital of the world. But, given his reported obsession with JonBonet since her death, he probably fantasized about her everytime he assaulted one of those kids. And, from these experiences, one can see how it became a fiendishly fortuitous opportunity for Karr to declare himself her Romeo, who killed her in a crime of passion, to ensure that he goes out with a bang, not a whimper.…

How’s that!

Of course, some analysts suggest that Karr has to be the right man because he knows so much, including “undisclosed details”, about the case. Whilst others counter that he’s just a weird crime-stalker who spent 10 years researching the case.

But if Karr has this purported first-person knowledge of the crime, why would he claim that he drugged and had sex with JonBenet, when the pathologist found no drugs or evidence of sexual intercourse (beyond possible “digital penetration”)? Why would he claim that he picked her up from school, when she was assaulted over the Christmas Holidays? And, why would he claim to be the killer, when his ex-wife (who divorced him in 2001 because she suspected him of having an unnatural attraction to little children, including their own) says that he was at home with her in Alabama when the crime occurred?

Moreover, he claims to have corresponded with the Ramseys and has reason to believe that Patsy knew of his longing to confess before she died 2 months ago; yet John told Barbara Walters he’d never heard of Karr and had no idea what correspondence he was talking about. (And, what’s with Karr’s eerily formal reference to Patsy as “Patricia”?)

Enough?