farasebo.blogg.se - Lessons from the jonbenet ramsey case

It's no wonder that Lacy, before going into her rope-a-dope routine with journalists, quoted a man who knows a bit about premature judgments.

Is there a scientific or physical link between Karr and the murder scene? And if that unmatched DNA from JonBenet's body does not match Karr, what are the prosecutors going to do then?.

What specifically is the incriminating information contained in those e-mails between Karr and college professor Michael Tracey, the Ramsey partisan who seems to have a Forrest Gump-like presence in this investigation?.

How will they explain away the testimony of, for example, Karr's ex-wife, who says she was with him that Christmas in Alabama?.

What did the authorities know before Karr's stunning admissions that made them think he murdered the little girl in her Boulder home in late 1996?.

In the meantime, there are these questions: We could be weeks and more likely even months away from knowing why Boulder authorities believe Karr - among all the kooks of the world - really could have killed JonBenet.

The problem with the timing of that happy event is that both prosecutors and Karr's attorneys, whomever they turn out to be, won't be so eager to allow that document to make it into the public domain - especially if, as Lacy strongly suggested Thursday, the Ramsey murder investigation is an ongoing, even burgeoning concern. Silence is going to be the norm in this case until the arrest affidavit, which presumably offers some details that aren't yet publicly known, is unsealed. What we don't know about that involvement couldn't fit into Lake Ontario. What we know today about Karr's involvement in the murder couldn't fit into the eye of a needle. Unfortunately for Lacy - and for any other person who would rather wait to see the fight unfold before its winner is declared - the silence of Boulder County officials already has created a media vacuum of speculation and rumor, of presumption and implication, that swirled around Karr on Thursday even as the details of his transfer from Thailand to America were being hammered out.

That's precisely what Colorado's ethical rules require, of course, but it was so shocking to see a prosecutor take the podium in front of live, wall-to-wall media coverage and not declare a defendant guilty on sight that some of the bolder and self-righteous television-types suggested she was somehow letting us all down by her discretion. Or, more precisely, Lacy didn't say anything specific or insightful or profound at all about the arrest or the case. And, sure, he's already on record as saying he loved the little girl both before and after he brutally killed her (by accident, he says).īut, honestly: How many people out there truly believe his story - in the absence of any independent proof that he was even at the Ramsey home on the night of the murder? Right now, John Mark Karr seems as much a suicide-by-infamy candidate as he does an earnest confessor to a horrible crime.īoulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy said all the right things Thursday morning from the very spot where seven years ago one of her predecessors, Alex Hunter, had to concede defeat in the case.

Sure, we know now that we have a chatty murder suspect who apparently will be winging his way to America soon to face the music.