Something scary - John Mark Karr in Atlanta

Discussion in 'Justice for JonBenet Discussion - Public Forum' started by Greenleaf, Oct 20, 2006.

  1. Greenleaf

    Greenleaf FFJ Senior Member

    My daughter lives in Atlanta. She, and all of her neighbors, received this in the mail today:

    Subject: Chastain Park Civic Association Notice

    Importance: High

    Dear Neighbors:

    This is to let you know that John Mark Karr has moved into his father's home on Merlendale Drive NW just south of Mount Paran Road in North Chastain Park. Also, Merlendale Drive is approximately three blocks north of the Chastain Park playground. As you may recall there have been many published reports in newspapers on Mr. Karr relating to incidents in Colorado, California, and Thailand. If you would like to learn more about Mr. Karr, please visit the following link:



    ..or go to Google.com and type in "John Mark Karr" to learn more.This email is being sent in response to many emails and phone calls from fellow neighbors that I have received concerning Mr. Karr's arrival in our community. Thank you.

    Yours truly, Jim King

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mark_Karr


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  2. Watching You

    Watching You Superior Bee Admin

    If some good ole boy doesn't take Karr out, I'd be holding my babies real close with this nutcase around, Greenie. I don't think Karr will be welcome anywhere in the States - especially in neighborhoods with a lot of kids.
     
  3. JustChillun

    JustChillun Member

    I figured the d!psh!ts in colorado owed him a return ticket to Asia since they brought him over here in the first place. It might be cheaper in the long run, you know.
     
  4. 1000 Sparks

    1000 Sparks Active Member

    Oh My...

    Twitch lives there too...

    Maybe he wants to be close to the cemetary.....
     
  5. BluesStrat

    BluesStrat BANNED !!!!!

    He belongs in Boulder. Living in a tent--pitched in Mary Lacy's back yard!
     
  6. Elle

    Elle Member

    <TABLE class=tborder cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=6 width="100%" align=center border=0><TBODY><TR title="Post 126660" vAlign=top><TD class=alt1 align=middle width=125>Greenleaf</TD><TD class=alt2>My daughter lives in Atlanta. She, and all of her neighbors, received this in the mail today:</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

    Oh, Greenleaf, I am sorry to hear this. I personally believe, that some enraged crazy person might solve the problem, and shoot the bastard.
     
  7. heymom

    heymom Member

    I'll buy the tent, and the plane ticket. Dead serious.

    Heymom
     
  8. wombat

    wombat Member

    OK, this op-ed piece was in yesterday's NY Times. I didn't post it because I thought it has a kind of "NY slamming Atlanta" tone, but here it is. Why do you think Karr really wants to go to Atlanta?

     
  9. RiverRat

    RiverRat FFJ Sr. Member Extraordinaire (Pictured at Lef

    What about Pam? Is she still in the Atlanta area?
     
  10. koldkase

    koldkase FFJ Senior Member

    We saw an article in the news a few years back. I wish I could find it now, but I'm sure it's in archives. It was not only ABOUT a PIMP who was convicted of prostituting children in Atlanta, but it had a picture of him all decked out like the common stereotype, standing by his PIMPMOBILE. He was all grin.

    I was so happy when I read he'd been convicted. Bet he didn't spend a year in prison, though.

    That article went into great detail about the horror of those children's lives. Just heartbreaking.

    I've seen documentaries on TV about Asian women and young girls who are brought here under false pretenses and then virtually enslaved in prostitution. Whenever I see one of the "massage parlors" I always think about them.

    But what about the source of the business? If not for him, there would be no children selling sex nor pimps profiting from it. What kind of man buys an underage prostitute? What kind of man wants to have sex with a child?

    Sadly the real answer to that would shock us all. That man is everywhere.
     
  11. koldkase

    koldkase FFJ Senior Member

    When the Karr thing broke, she was interviewed sitting in front of her father's house in Marietta, I believe. She said she "found out" at her teaching job, so I guess she is teaching in the area.
     
  12. LurkerXIV

    LurkerXIV Moderator

    Greenleaf

    That is very scary! Hopefully there are some well-prepared and alert vigilantes who wouldn't mind doing some extra neighborhood patrols.

    If it were Tennessee, I'd sic my big strong grandsons on him.

    I have a feeling that real Southern men know exactly how to protect their womenfolk from this demented creature.

    John Mark Karr won't be in Atlanta for long.
     
  13. Tez

    Tez Member


    I think he should reside in her house. Forget the backyard, let him lounge on her couch in his boxers. Gawd, that is a nasty visual. Personally, Mary Lacy should buy him a plane ticket back to Asia, he was just fine there. He can still eMail Tracey from there.

    Hey Mom, you crack me up! How about we take a road trip complete with Oreos and drive him to Boulder and deliver him to Mary Lacy?

    Edited to add: I will not be responsible for his safety if he touches the oreos.
     
    Last edited: Oct 20, 2006
  14. RiverRat

    RiverRat FFJ Sr. Member Extraordinaire (Pictured at Lef

    Cleared JonBenet suspect back in Atlanta
    John Mark Karr moves into father's home

    By CYNTHIA DANIELS
    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
    Published on: 10/20/06
    The man brought back from Thailand as a suspect in the murder of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey is back in Atlanta, and his new neighbors are uneasy about his presence.

    John Mark Karr, cleared by DNA tests as a suspect in JonBenet's 1996 death and freed of child pornography charges in a California case earlier this month, is at his father's house in the Chastain Park neighborhood, not too far from Chastain Park.

    At the park on Friday morning, parents watching their children play were discussing e-mails about Karr that are circulating through the neighborhood.

    "I can't believe he's not in jail or under an indictment, which is frightening," said Beth Marshall, 34, who lives about three miles south of Chastain Park. "I don't want him here."

    On Thursday, the president of the Chastain Park Civic Association sent an email to association members about Karr's presence in the neighborhood.

    "This is to let you know that John Mark Karr has moved into his father's home on Merlendale Drive NW just south of Mount Paran Road in North Chastain Park. Also, Merlendale Drive is approximately three blocks north of the Chastain Park playground. As you may recall there have been many published reports in newspapers on Mr. Karr relating to incidents in Colorado, California, and Thailand."

    Association president Jim King confirmed Friday that he had sent the email. He said he did it after two days of overwhelming calls and e-mails from neighbors who had seen Karr walking on his father's property and around the neighborhood.

    "It is not our role to have a say in who lives or does not live in our neighborhood," King said. "Our sole goal is to create citizen awareness in our community and that's exactly what we did."

    Michelle Collins, 34, who lives within walking distance of the park, said Friday that she would call 911 if she saw Karr. She also said, "It makes me angry he's not in jail. America needs to get stiffer on child predators. If there's evidence for even one child, he should be in jail for a long time."

    She speculated the 41-year-old Karr would probably not stay in the community very long.

    "This is a very strong community," Collins said. "Parents are very involved. I think somehow it will be uncomfortable for him to stay. His quality of life will not be so good."

    Karr and his father, Wexford Karr, declined to comment Friday when a reporter knocked on their door.

    About 10 minutes later, as Wexford Carr emerged to check his mailbox, he told a television news reporter, "I've been here 55 years, and I got a right to stay here."

    When the reporter asked whether he would let his son stay, he said, "Of course, I will."

    Karr was released from a California jail on Oct. 5 after a judge dismissed child pornography charges, saying prosecutors didn't have enough evidence to take the case to trial.

    The case fell apart as investigators admitted losing vital computer evidence seized from Karr in 2001, when he was working as a substitute teacher in California.


    Find this article at:
    http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2006/10/20/1020karr.html
     
  15. Paradox

    Paradox Banned for Stupidity by RiverRat

    JMK may not have ever harmed a child. He may just be a creepy wanna be, in several catagories, who just mouthed off about his fantasies. Now he may be a pariah wherever he goes. Whereas Patsy actually abused and killed a child and was accepted and welcomed by numerous christian congregations and a few neighborhoods. Go figure.
     
  16. tylin

    tylin Banned

    Yep I agree. I don't think Karr should take his newly found self-induced fame as anything his neighbors will view as positive. :x :snake:
     
  17. tylin

    tylin Banned

    Absolutely. Great post Paradox. :jumpie: :star3d: :toast:
     
  18. Greenleaf

    Greenleaf FFJ Senior Member

    From the Boston Herald

    Atlanta neighborhood association warns residents about former suspect in Ramsey slaying

    By Associated Press
    Friday, October 20, 2006 - Updated: 07:11 PM EST

    ATLANTA - A neighborhood group is warning members that the man who was briefly a suspect in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey is now living in the community with his father.

    The Chastain Park Civic Association sent an e-mail Thursday to its 2,000 member homeowners announcing that John Mark Karr had moved into his father’s home in the well-to-do Atlanta neighborhood, where houses sell for more than $600,000.

    The e-mail noted that Wex Karr’s house is about three blocks from a playground.

    John Mark Karr has “brought a lot of attention upon himself in the media, which is really ... frightening neighbors,†said Jim King, president of the neighborhood association.

    The elder Karr’s home has a small “No Trespassing†sign in the front yard. The younger Karr has been spotted outside the house and walking down the street, King said. A man who answered the phone at the Karr home declined to comment and refused to identify himself.

    After John Mark Karr was released from a California jail on Oct. 5, he said he intended to live with his father in Atlanta and possibly return to teaching.

    Karr has not been convicted of any crime that would require him to register as a sex offender or restrict where he can live or work.

    “I understand he is a free man, but everything I’ve read about him seems a little unbalanced,†said Kim Berry, a mother of three teenagers who lives several houses away from the elder Karr. “It’s not a good situation.â€

    Soon after taking a teaching job in Thailand, Karr was arrested in August and brought to the United States after he claimed to have killed JonBenet, the child beauty queen found strangled in her home in Boulder, Colo., in 1996.

    Authorities later said DNA evidence showed Karr confessed to a crime he did not commit.

    After being cleared in the slaying, Karr was sent to California to face charges of possessing child pornography. But the case was dropped and he was released Oct. 5 because investigators had lost crucial evidence.
     
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  19. Elle

    Elle Member

    Oh, this is very sad. shocking and frightening to read this, Wombat. When is this nightmare of young girls being used like this going to end? It seems to be well established, and that's the frightening part. I wonder why LE doesn't arrest these Pimps (?).

    Karr's father's house is there, of course, so no one can argue with that one. I'm sure the police will have him watched.
     
  20. Elle

    Elle Member



    If they don't already have a special guard in this playground, Greenleaf, the mothers themselves will need to be with them, I'm thinking. Can you imagine having this creep JMK living a few houses away? Frightening!
     
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