Just as I suspected...
PROSECUTORS DROP CASE IN RAMSEY SLAYING
By The Associated Press
BOULDER, Colo. -- Prosecutors abruptly dropped their case Monday against John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, saying DNA tests failed to put him at the crime scene despite his insistence he sexually assaulted and strangled the 6-year-old beauty queen.
Just a week and a half after Karr's arrest in Thailand was seen as a remarkable break in the sensational, decade-old case, prosecutors suggested in court papers that he was just a man with a twisted fascination with JonBenet who confessed to a crime he didn't commit.
"The people would not be able to establish that Mr. Karr committed this crime despite his repeated insistence that he did," District Attorney Mary Lacy said in court papers.
The 41-year-old schoolteacher will be kept in jail in Boulder until he can be sent to Sonoma County, Calif., to face child pornography charges dating to 2001.
The district attorney vowed to keep pursuing leads in JonBenet's death: "This case is not closed."
Karr was never formally charged in the slaying. In court papers, Lacy defended the decision to arrest him and bring him back to the United States for further investigation, saying he might have otherwise fled and may have been targeting children in Thailand as well.
This guy killed JonBenet? Yeah, riiiigghhhtt...
So, this man has `confessed' to killing JonBenet Ramsey. But he won't give us any real details, some of his claims are contradicted by evidence, and his ex-wife says he was with her in another state when JonBenet was killed.
I think this guy is just making it up to get attention. Yes, some people are desperate for even this kind of attention.
Have you seen how he eats up the media attention? He stood for like 1/2 hour today, posing in front of the news media! And it's been just 24 hours since he confessed, and he's already done an `exclusive' interview with the AP?? Come on - he wants this attention.
Another possiblity, besides wanting the attention, is that he was facing sex charges in Thailand, and `confessed' to JonBenet's killing so he would be transferred to U.S. authorities. After all, prison in the U.S. is much better than prison in Thailand.
I would still bet money that the father killed JonBenet.
Here's the AP story on it:
Karr says he loved JonBenet 'very much'
Associated Press
BANGKOK, Thailand - From inside his dingy hotel, the American suspect in the killing of JonBenet Ramsey told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview Thursday that he loved the 6-year-old and is "very sorry for what happened" in the basement of her Colorado home nearly a decade ago.
John Mark Karr, a 41-year-old teacher arrested Wednesday, was escorted back to his hotel room Thursday to collect his belongings. He appeared ashen and stuttered occasionally as he spoke in a quiet voice.
"It's very important for me that everyone knows that I love her very much, and that her death was unintentional, and that it was an accident," said Karr, a clean-cut, slight man with steely blue eyes and brown hair.
Earlier in the day, Karr spoke briefly to reporters after a news conference by American and Thai authorities that was mobbed by media, some of whom had camped out since sunrise waiting for him to emerge from Bangkok's Immigration Detention Center.
"I was with JonBenet when she died," he told reporters. Asked if he was innocent, he said: "No."
He declined to disclose the nature of his supposed relationship to the Ramsey family, or how he may have known JonBenet.
Asked to recount the details of how JonBenet died, Karr told the AP: "It would take several hours to describe - to describe that," he said haltingly.
"There's no way I could be brief about it. It's a very involved series of events," said Karr, who speaks with a thick Southern accent. "It's very painful for me to talk about."
JonBenet's body was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home the day after Christmas 1996 - a gruesome murder that became one of the highest-profile unsolved mysteries in the United States.
Karr will be taken within the week to Colorado, where he will face charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping and child sexual assault, said Ann Hurst of the Department of Homeland Security, one of several officials who accompanied the suspect to his hotel.
No evidence against Karr has been made public beyond his own admission. U.S. and Thai officials did not directly answer a question at the news conference about whether there was DNA evidence linking him to the crime.
Karr said he had written letters to JonBenet's mother, Patsy, before she died of cancer in June to express his remorse and it was his understanding that she had read them.
One of the officers who cleaned out Karr's room said he appeared to be an avid writer, and had several CDs on which he had saved his writings that were done on a computer.
The Blooms hotel, in a neighborhood filled with seedy massage parlors, rents rooms for as short as three hours - for $8 - and offers longer-term stays starting at $170 a month. Karr was staying on the top floor of the nine-story hotel in a small single room.
U.S. and Thai police moved into rooms down the hall from Karr about 10 days before the arrest to survey Karr's movements and await the arrival of a U.S. arrest warrant, said Thai police official Lt. Gen. Suwat Tumrongsiskul.
As Karr was bundled into a police vehicle, he said that JonBenet's death was "not what it seems to be," though he declined to elaborate.
"In every way," he added. "It's not at all what it seems to be."
Say it ain't so, Floyd!
Floyd Landis' `B' sample results came back today - positive. This just sucks... Now he'll probably be stripped of his Tour de France title. His team, Phonak, has already fired him.
I am seriously just soooo disappointed! I know, I know - like 90% of top cyclists dope, so why should I be surprised? But I just want to believe that Floyd was different. I talked to him in a conference call the day after he won the race, and he is just so affable, and likeable. I liked him even better than Lance Armstrong.
Floyd still says he's going to prove that he's innocent of doping. He says that he has naturally high levels of testosterone. At first I thought maybe this really was a false positive, but then I found out that the ratio in the sample was 11:1. Eesh. And now the carbon test says it's synthetic testosterone. Hmmm, can't really believe he's innocent anymore.
Maybe the saddest part is, if Floyd gets stripped of the Tour title, it will go to another rider who probably doped, but just didn't get caught. Doping is so prevalent in cycling that the top ten Tour finishers are probably guilty of it. How else are you going to compete with doped athletes, unless you dope too?
Mel Gibson: Drunk, Racist and Sexist
Mel Gibson tries to claim that his horrid remarks during his arrest and processing for drunk driving were due to the alcohol.
So when he blamed Jews for "all the wars in the world'' and told the deputy who arrested him that "I OWN Malibu", and called the female deputy "sugar tits", he didn't really mean all of those things. Uh, yeah, riggghhhhtttt, Mel.
Mel, you've been exposed as a fraud, and a hypocrite. Alcohol just lowers your inhibitions - making you a lot more likely to say what's ALREADY on your mind. During filming of "The Passion of the Christ" he was accused of being anti-Semitic (anti-Jew). and now we can all see that those accusations were accurate.
Will this incident affect his career? Will the major movie studios avoid him now? It will be interesting to see. I hope so - his behavior in this incident makes me view him in a new light, and I wouldn't be able to get past that if I was watching a film he starred in.
I've been thinking deep thoughts about...
SUPERMAN!
My friend Sheri and I went to watch the new movie `Superman Returns' on Friday night. At first I hadn't wanted to go, because to me, Christopher Reeve will ALWAYS be Superman.
But Sheri talked me into it. The movie was bland, and the guy who plays Superman - Brandon something-or-other - should have called himself SuperBOY. I was right - Christopher Reeve was the GREATEST, and he'll NEVER be replaced as the movie hero.
Here is Christopher Reeve:
The movies Reeve starred in, `Superman' and `Superman II', are IMO two of the most entertaining films ever made. I have both movies on DVD, and I watched them like five times each this weekend. (Well, sometimes I skipped to my favorite parts).
Christopher Reeve was SO under-rated as an actor. His performance as Superman was so subtley perfect - he was both strong and yet vulnerable at times too. And he had a great comic touch as well. It's like someone else said - that Reeve was so good in the role, "He made the fairy tale seem real".
Reeve's accident in 1995, in which he was paralyzed after falling from his horse, was a tragedy. When he died in 2004, at age 52, the world lost a great actor, and a great humanitarian too. His work for spinal cord research has resulted in millions of dollars being donated to the cause. I will always miss the way Reeve made the screen light up.
Could this be greatness emerging?
On Saturday was the most important thoroughbred horse race in the U.S. - the Kentucky Derby! I love horse racing - I've followed it religiously since I was a little kid.
And now, finally, I think I've seen something that American horse racing has been waiting over a decade for. Barbaro, the 3-year-old colt that won the Derby, could be a super-horse! His photo is above.
Barbaro DOMINATED in the race! He pulled away from the field in the stretch, under a HAND RIDE! It made my jaw drop. He won by over six lengths! (That's a huge margin in the Derby). He looked so impressive that I think we might well have a Triple Crown winner this year.
To win the Triple Crown, Barbaro will need to win the Preakness in two weeks, and then the Belmont Stakes two weeks after that. If he wins the Preakness, I am going to New York City to watch the Belmont in person! I have a friend who lives in NYC, and we've already made plans! LOL
There hasn't been a Triple Crown winner since 1978, when Affirmed won it. That's how hard it is to win all three races. The 11 horses that have won it are considered among the all-time greats in the sport.
I think Barbaro can make it 12.
Immigrant Controversy
One of the big issues in the U.S. right now is that of immigration. Why? Because basically, our idiot president proposed giving `amnesty' to the people who are in this country illegally (because they snuck in by swimming across a river, being smuggled in, etc.). Then they would be on track for citizenship.
His proposal did not sit well with most of our legislators, or most citizens, and now an immigration reform bill is stuck in limbo. So that made illegal immigrants - and their relatives who are here legally - start whining about the way illegal immigrants are treated in the U.S., and claim that they're the backbone of the U.S.. They literally boycotted work on Monday, saying they would bring the U.S. economy to its knees.
Now, before I state my opinion on this, keep in mind that I have many friends who came here from different countries, including those who came here with their families ILLEGALLY when they were little, and have since become very productive citizens.
I am in favor of immigration - LEGAL immigration. I have NO SYMPATHY for illegal immigrants, or how they're treated in the U.S..
Yes, they do contribute in some ways to the U.S. ecomony, by taking menial jobs that many Americans don't want, but they also DRAIN billions from the ecomony too. They don't pay taxes, and yet their children go to U.S. schools, and they use U.S. medical care, which the government then has to pay for. Legal Americans don't have their healthcare paid for by the government.
So they need to quit crying, for Christ's sake. You want respect? You want good treatment? Then go home and come back LEGALLY. Like my relatives did when they immigrated to the U.S. in the late 1800s. You have no right to expect to be granted legal status when you committed a crime in coming here by sneaking in.
How would France feel if half of America moved there - after sneaking in to that country - and then demanded they be made citizens? Would you think that was right? I thought not.
