Breaking News Archive - 20th - 26th Aug

John Mark Karr en route to U.S.
He is expected to land tonight at 10 p.m. Mountain time in Los Angeles.

John Mark Karr, center, surrounded by security personnel at the immigration detention center in Bangkok, Thailand, prior to departing for the airport on Sunday. (Post / RJ Sangosti)

Bangkok, Thailand - John Mark Karr may have entered Thailand quietly and anonymously, but on Sunday when he was kicked out of the country his every move was under scrutiny by a worldwide press corps.

Karr, 41, who's accused in the nearly 10-year-old homicide case of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, was driven to the airport by
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Thai officials and placed in a holding cell before being loaded on a jet for a 15 1/2-hour flight to Los Angeles. He said nothing as he was paraded before reporters.

The Thai Airways flight then departed about 30 minutes late, and is expected to arrive in Los Angeles about 10 p.m. Mountain time tonight.

It's unclear what will happen then. But U.S. immigration officials speculated that Karr will immediately be served with an arrest warrant by Boulder authorities as soon as he is on U.S. soil. At that point, he may be turned over to Los Angeles authorities, and proceedings will begin to extradite him to Colorado.

Earlier on Sunday in Asia, Karr's day began in a holding cell in the Thailand Immigration Detention Center, where he was served a traditional breakfast of rice and eggs.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4210510?source=rss

Some are saying now they think he has some plastic surgery, he called 12 different place in 9 months for his sex change. Also he had a knife with his meal on the plane, thats on Fox right now.

michelle said:

Some are saying now they think he has some plastic surgery, he called 12 different place in 9 months for his sex change. Also he had a knife with his meal on the plane, thats on Fox right now.

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HE got a MEAL on a plane these days????? What makes him so special? :snooty:

englishleigh said:

HE got a MEAL on a plane these days????? What makes him so special? :snooty:

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Who knows! Its crazy! I understand he needs to eat but why would they give him a knife, I would not want to sit next to this guy with a knife!

michelle said:

Who knows! Its crazy! I understand he needs to eat but why would they give him a knife, I would not want to sit next to this guy with a knife!

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I wouldn't want to sit within 10 feet of the guy, period.

ESPECIALLY if he killed JonBenet. :razz:

englishleigh said:

I wouldn't want to sit within 10 feet of the guy, period.

ESPECIALLY if he killed JonBenet. :razz:

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I know I would want to :slap: him the whole way back to the U.S.

Stakeout begins for Karr's return
Media attention angers JonBenet's father

BOULDER, Colo. — Reporters and camera crews crowded the local courthouse grounds Saturday in anticipation of the arrival of teacher John Mark Karr to face charges in the death of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey.

The intense media attention in the case that has fascinated the nation for almost 10 years has outraged JonBenet's father and driven him to consider moving out of the country, a family lawyer said Saturday.

Karr said in a televised statement after being arrested Wednesday in Thailand that he was with JonBenet when she was killed on the day after Christmas 1996 in the basement of the family's home in Boulder. He called the child's death "an accident."

Karr will face charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping and child sexual assault.

Authorities in Thailand said Karr, 41, would leave on a flight to the United States today. "The tickets for John Mark Karr's departure are ready," Thailand's immigration police chief, Lt. Gen. Suwat Tumrongsiskul, told reporters.

Suwat did not specify the route Karr would take. In the United States, neither federal nor local officials would confirm the timing.

Television crews had already pitched camp Saturday on the grounds of the Boulder County court building in this wealthy college town.

More than 30 journalists representing organizations as far away as Japan attended a meeting Friday to divvy up media seating for Karr's first court appearance — even though the hearing hadn't even been scheduled.

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twinc...5129.htm?source=rss&channel=twincities_nation

michelle said:

I know I would want to :slap: him the whole way back to the U.S.

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No kidding....or :croc:

englishleigh said:

No kidding....or :croc:

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Or we could :slap: , then :croc: and then I would be !

michelle said:

Or we could :slap: , then :croc: and then I would be !

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And I'd be :clap: :clap: :clap: and :dance: :dance: :dance: and :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

englishleigh said:

And I'd be :clap: :clap: :clap: and :dance: :dance: :dance: and :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

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LOL, We would definatly be taking pride in this smackdown! We could tag team him!

michelle said:

LOL, We would definatly be taking pride in this smackdown! We could tag team him!

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Yeah, I'm just over 5'1" and you're 5'...& we could beat his skinny little girl-bod to a pulp!!

englishleigh said:

Yeah, I'm just over 5'1" and you're 5'...& we could beat his skinny little girl-bod to a pulp!!

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That is so true!:woohoo:

You :laugh: guys are too funny.
Have such a bad headcold and trying not to laugh, it hurts...


michelle said;
Some are saying now they think he has some plastic surgery, he called 12 different place in 9 months for his sex change



And where did he get the money for this?

P.s. trying to copy and paste your message michelle, didn't turn out to good...:doh:
O well spit happens....hehe

Pharlap said:

You :laugh: guys are too funny.
Have such a bad headcold and trying not to laugh, it hurts...


michelle said;
Some are saying now they think he has some plastic surgery, he called 12 different place in 9 months for his sex change



And where did he get the money for this?

P.s. trying to copy and paste your message michelle, didn't turn out to good...:doh:
O well spit happens....hehe

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Oh thats ok, while I am on a roll take that :slap: . Hehehehe..... Yes I want to know how he was going to pay for that too...

Reposted for Reference

Timeline for John Mark Karr

1964: John Mark Karr is born in Conyers.

1976: Karr moves to Hamilton, Ala., where he is raised by his grandparents.

1983: Graduates from Hamilton High School.

1984: Karr, 19, marries 14-year-old Quientana Shotts in Hamilton, Ala.

March 1985: Karr's marriage is annulled.

May 1989: Karr marries 16-year-old Lara Knutson of Lilburn, Ga., in the Gwinnett County Courthours in Lawrenceville, Ga.

Sept. 1989: The Karr's twins — Angel and Innocence — die in childbirth and are buried in the New Cooper Cemetery outside Hamilton.

1991–2000: The Karrs have three sons (as of 2006, aged 13, 14, and 15) while living in Hamilton.

August–September 1996: Karr served as a substitute teacher at Hamilton Elementary School.

2000: Karr and his wife move to Petaluma, Calif.

December 2000–April 2001: Karr works in the Petaluma School District as a substitute schoolteacher.

April 2001: Karr is arrested and jailed in Sonoma County, Calif., on five counts of possessing child *advertiser censored*.

October 2001: Karr is released on his own recognizance but later fails to show up in court. He and his wife get divorced.

April 2002: The California Commission on Teacher Credentialling suspends Karr's teaching credentials for allegedly committing an offense "involving aiding and abetting the unlawful sale, use or exchange to minors of controlled substances," according to the minutes of the commission's meeting.

2001-2005: According to a resume posted online, Karr taught in Asia in 2001 and 2002 and lists additional teaching work in 2004 and '05 in Honduras. It also says Karr taught English to executives in Costa Rica. The posting says Karr worked as a private teacher and care-giver in Germany and the Netherlands.

2006: University of Colorado journalism professor Michael Tracey contacts police about his e-mail communication with Karr after the e-mails take an allegedly bizarre turn. Tracey was the producer of a controversial documentary in 1998 that challenges the presumption of the Ramseys' guilt and takes the media to task for coverage of the case. He and Karr had been communicating by e-mail for several years.

June 6, 2006: Karr arrives in Bangkok from Malaysia to look for a teaching job.

Aug. 17, 2006: Karr is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand, in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey.

Aug. 18, 2006: Karr tells reporters: "I am so very sorry for what happened to JonBenet. It's very important for me that everyone knows that I love her very much, that her death was unintentional, that it was an accident."

http://www.western-star.com/sports/content/shared/news/stories/JONBENET_TIMELINE_0818_COX.html

Stone-faced Karr begins long journey to judgment

John Mark Karr is escorted to a plane that will bring him to the United States. The JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect left Thailand Sunday morning and is due to arrive in Los Angeles tonight.STORY TOOLS

BANGKOK, Thailand - Unhappy with media who said he murdered child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsay when he says her death was accidental, John Mark Karr stayed silent and stone-faced as he walked past an army of questioning reporters Sunday on the start of his journey home to face judgment.
Shortly before that moment, Karr "said he doesn’t want to talk to reporters, because they want to portray him as a murderer," according to Lt. Gen. Suwat Tumrongsiskul, head of the Thai immigration police.

The autopsy said JonBenet's skull was fractured before she was strangled with a garrote.

Karr’s silence was a reversal from his stunning willingness to talk three days earlier. Then, just after his arrest, he told a press conference that he’d been present at the death of the blond 6-year-old in her parents’ basement in 1996, but it was an accident.

Thailand revoked Karr’s visa on Thursday and jailed him pending deportation, after Boulder issued a warrant for him for first-degree murder, kidnapping and sexual assault on a child.

Neatly dressed in a dark red dress shirt and grey tie, Karr had ignored the crowd of 100 reporters from around the world who had gathered to watch him walk from the Thai Immigration Detention Center to a van that would take him to the Bangkok airport and a flight back to the United States. He was surrounded by 20 Thai police, who allowed no one close, but gave photographers ample room to record Karr’s departure.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4931272,00.html

Karr flies to U.S. in style, chatting to officials
John Mark Karr, the suspect in the murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, sipped champagne and ate king fried prawns in business class Sunday after being put aboard a flight to Los Angeles to face charges in the United

ABOARD THAI AIRWAY TO LOS ANGELES — John Mark Karr, the suspect in the murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, sipped champagne and ate king fried prawns in business class Sunday after being put aboard a flight to Los Angeles to face charges in the United States.

As Karr dined like a tycoon and chatted with the U.S. officials escorting him, Thailand was abuzz with reports that Karr sought treatment at a Thai sex-change clinic.

Karr, who was not charged with any crime in Thailand, was being expelled because he is regarded as an undesirable person. He was not being extradited.

He and three U.S. officials boarded a Thai Airways International flight that took off about 8 p.m. (9 a.m. EDT) for the 15-hour flight to Los Angeles. Karr's journey will eventually end in Boulder, Colo., where he is expected to face charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping and child sexual assault in connection with the young beauty queen's 1996 killing.

http://www.startribune.com/484/story/625021.html

On the plane, the 41-year-old teacher sat in a business class window seat next to Mark Spray, an investigator with the Boulder District Attorney's office. He was not handcuffed. A U.S. Embassy official and an agent with "Homeland Security" emblazoned on his T-shirt were also part of the escort party.

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Dinner was served on a starched white tablecloth. Karr started with a pate, then had a green salad with walnut dressing. The main course was fried king prawn with steamed rice and broccoli. Karr drank a beer, crushing the can with his hands when it was empty, then moved on to a glass of French chardonnay with his main course.

Karr was relaxed, smiling and chatting nonstop with the U.S. officials next to him - until television news crews on the flight turned their cameras on. Then he stopped smiling, clutched the armrests of his seat and stared at his lap.[/font]

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Karr was relaxed, smiling and chatting nonstop with the U.S. officials next to him - until television news crews on the flight turned their cameras on. Then he stopped smiling, clutched the armrests of his seat and stared at his lap.[/size]

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Strange that now he doesn't want to speak in front of the cameras. I wonder what has changed his mind.