It's Waste of Space Monday. I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that everyone else is probably doing the same person that I am. I don't care. I've been reading about this case since before they caught this guy and I'm using him no matter what. And what a weird, freaky, gay little man he is, too.
Waste of Space - John Mark Karr
Jon Benet Ramsey was found to be missing from her home at 5:30 in the morning by her mother, Patsy Ramsey. The Ramsey family was scheduled to fly out of Colorado that morning and were getting up early. Patsy, after finding her daughter not in her bed, ran down the stairs to look for her. Downstairs she found a ransom note, claiming a foreign faction had kidnapped Jon Benet and wanted $118,000 for her return. Patsy and her husband, John, called the police. For hours the police and several others ran around the house, wreaking havoc on the crime scene, but finding no trace of Jon Benet.
At some point, John Ramsey and a friend decided to search the house from top to bottom. Actually, they searched bottom to top, beginning in the dark basement. In the basement was a pitch black room the Ramseys used as a wine cellar. It was almost impossible to see in the room and in the initial search of the house no one had thought to bring a light. John and his companion had a light, though. And so it was that Jon Benet's own father found her body, with her wrists tied over her head and a garrot tied around her throat.
The case was explosive and highly controversial. Many people suspected the Ramseys themselves of having committed the crime. For 10 years it has been unsolved. But now a man named John Mark Karr has indicated that he killed Jon Benet as he was attempting to kidnap her.
John Mark's story is odd because Jon Benet was raped, then strangled, and then her head was bashed with enough force to have killed her had she not already been strangled. Her death does not seem to match up with John Mark's claim that her death was any sort of accident.
As for how anyone could have gotten inside the Ramsey's house, John Ramsey himself had broken in a month previous to the murder through a basement window when he accidently locked himself out. He had not replaced the broken window and so it was still wide open on the night of Jon Benet's death. Whether the killer used this broken window hasn't been indicated in news stories yet, but it is a high probability.
Some years prior to the murder of Jon Benet, John and Patsy's oldest daughter was killed in a car accident. Shortly after, Patsy, a former Miss America contestant, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and given a virtual death-sentence. She miraculously managed to survive it and appeared to have beaten it completely. Following the death of her oldest daughter and her own near-death, Patsy's youngest daughter Jon Benet was murdered. For 10 years people have accused the Ramseys themselves of the crime. Recently, John Mark Karr began writing letters to Patsy Ramsey, identifying himself as the killer. Prior to his capture and arrest, Patsy died of ovarian cancer.
John Mark Karr is a weird little gay man, found in Bangkok where he was getting treatments to remove all his facial hair in preparation for a sex-change operation. He has spent his career around very small children, both as a teacher and apparently, as a nanny of sorts. His ex-wife says there is no way he could have killed Jon Benet because he was with her in Alabama on the day of her death. She also says he had a fascination with the cases of both Jon Benet Ramsey and Polly Klaas.
Whether John Mark Karr is guilty or not I don't know. But he says he is and he tormented Patsy Ramsey with the claim that he is up until the day she died. Because of the manner in which Jon Benet was killed I consider this man to be a waste of space. If he wants to be identified as a man who rapes and murders a six-year-old child and then torments a woman who has lost both of her daughters and is on the verge of dying herself then let him pay the price.
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