When's the last time you thought about JonBenet Ramsey? Me, not for years. It was a shock to hear her name again yesterday when that skin-crawlingly creepy John Mark Karr was arrested in -- of course -- Bangkok. Despite his fairly incriminating statements on camera, don't be so sure Karr is guilty. His ex-wife, who divorced him after he was convicted on child porn charges a few years back, says he was with her in Alabama on the night JonBenet was killed. And if he's a wack job, he might be confessing to something he didn't do just for the notoriety. I'm just saying.
I have to confess to feeling a bit ashamed of how quick I was to have thought the worst of Patsy Ramsey over the years. I wouldn't say that I thought she did it, or had something to do with it, but I did think there might be something to that idea. Why? Mostly because I think there's something deeply perverse about the whole child beauty pageant thing, and ... well, I figured that any mom who would subject her child to that sicko scene must be capable of worse. Unfair? Yeah. But that was what I thought.
Patsy Ramsey apparently deepened her Christian faith throughout the ordeal, which I'm sure is the thing that allowed her to get through it. I hope this Karr is the killer, because if so, Mrs. Ramsey, even in death, deserves to be set free of all suspicion. But if this Karr really was in Alabama on the night of JonBenet's death in Colorado ... what then? And then there's the matter of the ransom note, which is just ... weird. I hope that Karr can clear all this up. I guess we'll know for sure if the DNA found under JonBenet's fingers matches his.
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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When this story broke almost 10 years ago - it really doesn't seem that long - I thought it was tragic - but I confess like all sensational news - and that's all we hear these days - I kind of drop off the radar with it. Now it seems we have to go through all of it again. Not only this story - which is strange, but Mel Gibson, celebrity break-ups, the war, and everything else the media deems we need to be over saturated with, I haven't followed this story too much. I have no opinion one way or the other - maybe he did it, maybe he didn't.
I would like to say - ten years ago, I thought it was perverse to see a child that young dressed up like that. And ten years later, I still feel the same way. It is tragic all the way around. But the news media needs to stop with their "developing stories" and news "breaks" and their over analyzing - it's like seeing instead of reading "The National Inquirer">
DREHER! YOU IGNORANT SLUT!!!!!!!
DECEPTIVE!!!!! DUPLICITOUS!!!!! GUNKYHEAD!!!!! You . . . yoooou . . . SATANIC COMMUNISS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DREHER! FWEE . . . RASHUM . . . FRASHIN . . . COMMUNISS!!!!!!!!!!
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Thud.>
Man, that's too bad. Will someone please volunteer to sing "Over the Rainbow" at the memorial service?>
Hmmm. I don't know if Karr is a kook, but this post has sure generated its fair share of them. :o)>
~A NOTE TO THE REAL KILLER~
Why don't you come forward and confess that you did it.Or could it be that you know John Mark Karr and told him to many things that you should not have.You are nothing but a COWARD who ever you are, and to go for almost ten years after killing a little Child, and letting the Mother take the blame..There is something wrong with you, you Monster..I hope you have many sleepless haunting nights for what you done..The Devil sure is laughing at you right now..I only hope that you ask the Lord for forgiveness, but in order for him to forgive you, you will have to expose your Dark secret to the public and tell them what you done..You are one sick Person to be able to kill a little innocent child..You and the News Media owe the Ramsey Family an opology for what you done and what they said..May God have Mercy on us all for Blaming the Family, even JonBenets Brother..Why don't you be a Man and come forward and tell what you done..>
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