JonBenet case

[burton2019]

who didnt see this coming?

[imported_elp6n]

BOULDER, Colorado (CNN) -- John Mark Karr believes he killed JonBenet Ramsey even though "he is not the killer," Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy said Tuesday.

In a news conference in Boulder, Lacy and staff members from the Boulder County district attorney's office addressed how DNA evidence released Monday showed Karr could not have committed the killing he confessed to when he was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand, earlier this month.

The district attorney's office is closing its case against Karr.

"John Karr sincerely believes he killed JonBenet Ramsey, there's no question in his mind about that," Lacy said.

She said Karr still believes, even now, that he killed the young girl even though evidence points to someone else.

"The way he told the story (of how JonBenet died), the DNA would have been his and it was not," Lacy said. "He is not the killer."

Lacy said she has little sympathy for Karr because he "inserted himself" into the case.

Lacy said that investigators took surreptitious DNA samples in Bangkok from Karr, who said he was present in JonBenet's Boulder home when she died in December 1996. He called her death an accident.

DNA samples were taken from items that Karr touched as investigators kept him under surveillance in Bangkok, Lacy said, including from his bicycle, a cup he drank from and a tissue with which he wiped his hands.

However, she explained, experts in the case said that the sample found in the young girl's underwear was a mixed sample, as were the samples taken from Karr without his knowledge.

The experts wanted a clean sample from Karr and didn't want to compare a mixed sample with a mixed sample, she told reporters in a news conference about the case.

To get such a sample, they would have needed Karr's permission, and they didn't want to tip him off that he was under investigation, she said.

Karr claimed in e-mails to a journalism professor at the University of Colorado that he was involved in JonBenet's death.

Lacy has been sharply criticized from for detaining and arresting Karr.

"The decisions were mine," Lacy said Tuesday. "The responsibility is mine and I should be held accountable for all decisions in this case."

[NotSoSilentBob]

Honestly, why should anyone even give a [censored] about this case?

You talking about this guy or the little girl's possible rape and murder.
I hope it's the guy.
After seeing what one child's murder did in Appy many years ago.
I would of wished then there would of never been another.
Wishful thinking i know. But it was heart breaking.
Even back in the day. Not a little girl who come from money. But just a little girl who was killed.
Yet one VA. State Trooper investigator was compelled to see her killer brought to justice and he did.

[NotSoSilentBob]

Both. Not like she's the only kid in the country who's been killed.

I get so sick of [censored] like this.

[imported_juggernaut28]

If you want to get sick, then get sick at the people who commit these horrible crimes against children. I for one have kids and care very much about the stories of these crimes. I think the public should be informed more about these sex predators prowling around OUR kids. It's people like you that don't give a (censored) when these crimes do take place.
You are right though about JonBenet not being the only child murdered. Many are and their story is never made public, that is sad and they shouldn't be forgotten. But goodness when a story does break out then show some compassion or just shut up cause your input is first immature and second very disrespectful.

[R0cketer]

Nope not the only child killed but definitely one of the most puzzling.

Call me crazy, but I'm guessing since there is no answers or no safety in knowing who did it, that means potentially there is a killer out there who kills small children. One who is very clever and thus far hasn't gotten caught. To me, that's something to be aware of.

I agree with that. And remember all the years with the milk cartons and missing children.

This case is bizarre. Yet it still has a bad stigma. Who ever did this is still out there and yet is very clever.

Are they still killing. That is what is scary.