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Ramsey Suspect Won’t Be Charged in Killing
BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 28 — The district attorney’s office in Boulder, Colo., decided today not to file criminal charges against John Mark Karr in the killing of the child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey because his DNA did not match the evidence found at the scene of her death 10 years ago.
Mr. Karr had been to make his first court appearance in Boulder this afternoon after he was arrested in Thailand on Aug. 16 and extradited last week to Colorado, by way of Los Angeles. He had not been charged in the killing.
That hearing was canceled, and the Boulder County district attorney, Mary Lacy, said this afternoon that the case against Mr. Karr had been dropped “because no evidence has developed other than his own repeated admission to place Mr. Karr at the scene of the crime and in particular because his DNA does not match that found in the victim’s blood in her underwear.”
As such, she said, “the people would not be able to establish that Mr. Karr committed this crime, despite his repeated insistence that he did.’’
Shortly before Ms. Lacy issued her statement, Mr. Karr’s lawyer at the Boulder County public defender’s office, Seth Temin, emerged from the jail where his client was being held and said t no charges would be filed.
"They are not proceeding with this case,’’ Mr. Temin said. “We are deeply distressed by the fact that they took this man and dragged him here from Bangkok, Thailand, with no forensic evidence confirming the allegations against him and no supporting factors leading to a presumption that he did anything wrong.’’
. . . Mr. Karr is a former school teacher whose family has said he was obsessed with the murders of several young girls, including JonBenet and Polly Klass, who was abducted in 1993 by a man named Richard Allen Davis, who later killed her . . . Several of Mr. Karr’s family members, including his ex-wife, said he was with them that Christmas when JonBenet was killed.
. . . Even the district attorney . . . cautioned . . .
“Do not jump to judgment. Do not speculate. Let the justice system take its course.’’ [/quote]
nytimes.com/2006/08/28/us/28 … r=homepage
Oh, well. It was fun while it lasted.
Actually, though, I KNOW who the real killer is. It happens to be a regular poster on forumosa, but forum rules prevent me from outing her/him, so I’ll have to keep it confidential.