Do you think John Mark Karr is guilty?

Answer 1

I don't believe so.

Things just don't add up. He says that he picked up JBR from school that day however, the children were on christmas break and they had no school.

JBR's father says he does not know Karr, so how would he know the layout of the house and where JBR's room was. As well as the basement. How was he able to sneak around and write the ransom note and all that jazz without being caught.

He claims it was an accident and that he loved her, but hitting her on the head with something and strangling her is no accident.


A lot of people feel he admitted to the crime knowing he would be immediately forced to return to the U.S which means he wouldn't have to spend time in Thai prisons.

There is speculation that he was up to some illegal activity over there and would eventually be prosecuted. We all know prisons oversea aren't all that "good" compared to prisons in the states.

Answer 2

I'm waiting for the DNA evidence before I jump to any conclusions. There are just too many unanswered questions. He says he raped and drugged her, but the autopsy showed no evidence of drugs or rape. He watched the case obsessively, but according to the experts on child molestors that I saw, that wouldn't fit the profile at all. They are supposed to be the ones who try to hide what they've done, and who would be the first to pull their jackets over their heads and say "no comment." He's granting interviews, for goodness sake! The experts were saying it's more likely that he's almost like an obsessed fan who just wants to be identified with the case. He has witnesses that he was halfway across the country that night. But there are a lot of strange things going on with him. A student had a picture of him with a picture of a teddy bear just like the one they found that mysteriously appeared in her bedroom. I don't think he's guilty regarding her, but I don't think he's quite right in the head, either. How many grown men do you know that would spend their time in jail reading "The Secret Garden"?

Answer 3

How can one answer this when they know nothing of the evidence that was used to obtain a probable cause warrant?

I'll wait to hear what the Boulder DA has on this guy.

Keep in mind what JonBenet's father stated -- which was, "I feel it is extremely important to not only let the justice system operate to its conclusion in an orderly manner, but also to avoid feeding the type of media speculation that my wife and I were subjected to for so many years."

Perhaps in this case assuming things without evidence actually made an (_!_) out of a good portion of the Boulder Police, the media and many individuals following this case and playing "arm chair detective."

Answer 4

It's too early to tell for sure. There certainly are a lot of holes in his story, but the authorities aren't telling the whole truth either. The DNA evidence will swing things one way or another, & meanwhile the media will milk this for all this is worth.
If he's lying I wish that he could have shown a little more compassion for the Ramsey family, rather than to stir this up only to satisfy his own selfish needs.

Answer 5

There's no way we can know. Making up one's mind on such superficial evidence is one of the huge problems Americans face these days. We get a front-page story or a few sound bites on TV, and we think we know the answers, or that we ought to know the answers. So we make up our minds too soon on evidence that is much, much too flimsy.

So we should all listen to Jon-Benet's father: "Do not jump to conclusions, do not rush to judgment, do not speculate. Let the justice system take its course."

And we should all give poor John Ramsey his privacy.

And we should not let the sensationalism of this story detract us from the world-shattering events that should occupy our minds at this time: how to achieve peace in Iraq in spite of the obvious errors and deceptions of the past three years; how to achieve a lasting, negotiated settlement between Israelis and Palestinians, between Israel and Lebanon, between the West and the Middle East, between "Christians" and "Muslims" (both of whom, regrettably, have fundamentalist warmongers as well as sensible peacemakers and innocent civilians among their number).

As sad and mysterious as the Jon-Benet case has been from the beginning, it grabs headline because it appeals to our morbid curiosity, NOT because the future of our planet and the avoidance of World War III depend on its outcome.

Even so, we should not be making up our minds about a man's guilt or innocence, his sanity or insanity, on the basis of a few headline news stories. Even more important, we should not be supporting or defying the Bush regime now on the basis of flimsy headline stories either. In this case, much of the data is available, but it takes some careful analysis of this data to see how we got in this mess and what might be done to extricate us.

"Do not jump to conclusions, do not rush to judgment, do not speculate." Insist on being given all the data; spend some time reading and analyzing it; try to understand reasoned arguments of unbiased investigators. Only then should we make up our minds, and let "justice take its course."

Answer 6

It looks sketchy...

Truthfully, I think he is guilty of doing "something" in Thailand and wanted a free ride back to the US jails instead of doing time overseas where they'd probably cut it off...bobbit style.

If this is the truth it will be interesting to see him fight extradition back to Thailand....

Answer 7

It's all a bit too sudden and out of the blue plus some of the facts don't add up.

Answer 8

He's guilty of being deranged, and should be put away just for that fact alone.

Answer 9

Doubtful. He's definitely deranged but the details don't add up.

Answer 10

No. He's crazy. I'm just sorry he's gotten the families hopes of finding the killer up.