The Killers of JonBenet Ramsey
The monster who killed JonBenet Ramsey, John Mark Karr, has been caught and confessed to the murder, saying:
“I was with JonBenet when she died. Her death was an accident. 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.”
JonBenet, 6 years old at the time, was found beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled in the basement of the family’s home in Boulder, Colorado., on Dec. 26, 1996.
In the 10 years since JonBenet’s death, her mother, Patsy, who recently succumbed to cancer, was under an umbrella of suspicion. The fact that the girl had been sexually assaulted helped put Patsy in the legal periphery, but both police and the public wondered if she had some involvement in her daughter’s murder, and what that involvement might be.
Why was Pasty Ramsey under suspicion? Among other things, she was a beauty-pageant mom. She dressed her 6 year old daughter like a Las Vegas show girl and paraded her about on stage. After JonBenet’s death, Patsy seemed to enjoy the limelight, the interviews and the attention a little too much. We know now those uncomfortable reactions from Patsy were a part of her “pageant mother” syndrome rather than evidence of guilt to a crime.
Authorities who arrested the murderer, Karr, said this about him:
“He said he loved this child, that he was in love her. He said she was very pretty, a pageant queen. She was the school star, she was very cute and sweet.”
Karr was a school teacher who knew JonBenet and the family. He frequents pornography (child and adult) and has been living in Bangkok, Thailand, where he was arrested. Thailand has one of the worlds worst sex industries, which is arguably what attracted Karr to the area.
If there is a lesson to be learned about this case it is this: the bias most people have against child beauty pageants is a justified one. It sexualizes little girls and attracts sick perverts like Karr. It waves a red flag in the face of an allegorical bull, that being sick sexual predators. Mothers who neutralize their normal instincts to protect their daughters’ modesty and sexuality by exposing it in a grown up way connote clear ulterior motives. It is usually the case of a vain mother, a mother living vicariously through her daughter, or a mother using her daughter for some other superficial reason that results in the weird child beauty pageant industry. Karr is ultimately responsible for JonBenet Ramsey’s death, but there are certainly other accomplices: her mother, the pageant circuit and child pornography.
Cross-posted at Amy’s Blog
August 17th, 2006 at 11:54 am
There is considerable doubt now about if this is the person.
August 17th, 2006 at 11:57 am
I also noticed one thing. Miss USA Pageant I did not see aired on a major network this year, but they started to air the Miss Teen America Pageant. Seems the girls to be showcased keep getting younger. Not a good sign. Still not has bad as the Islamic Clerics issuing Fatwas Authorizing Sexual Abuse of Children
August 17th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
I think it’s going to turn out that this guy is just some obsessive sicko that falsely confessed to the crime to get attention.
August 17th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
AMY YOU ARE STUPID CALLING THAILAND LIKE THAT. LOOK AT YOURSELF AND YOUR FRICKING SEX FREE COUNTRY!
August 17th, 2006 at 7:06 pm
JKJ, Thailand has one of the world’s worst sex industries. There are very, very young girls forced into the sex trade frequented by grown men. Girls are sold like property against their will. Remember the Tsunami of 2005? A flood of sex managers traveled to the devastated areas and kidnapped young girls for sex slaves.
The US has its deplorable immorality to be sure, and I hate it, but we don’t steal and sell little girls for sex. Free sex is one thing, selling human beings as sex objects, particulary young girls (6,7,8…) against their will is unconsciounable.
August 28th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Oh, look. DNA evidence does not support that Karr was present when Ramsay was killed. Oh well. Good thing we didn’t gas him, or hang him, or give him the old lethal injection. Too bad Amy’s not interested in facts. Otherwise she might not buy into the whole ‘intelligent design’ (nee creationism) foolishness.
August 29th, 2006 at 3:51 am
BillyJoeJimBob,
How would he have been executed without a trial? Because of Judeo-Christian ethics he received proper representation and defense. Darwinism would have had him hung on the spot.
The article isn’t about Karr but the pageant circuit. The message about sexualization of children is just as true, if not more, after all the detail of this pediphile’s life has become clear.