A followup:
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It wasn’t really a press conference. The cops were walking him through a crowd of reporters and the last advice he seemed to be following was STFU!
Yeah, Finagain, stiff whiff is one reason I didn’t pursue the forensic anthropology that at the same time intrigued and horrified me. That, and they were just inventing it when I got my bachelors and who knew you could get a job doing it? Well, not my counsellor, for one, though one prof went on to fame and fortune in it.
A bit dark, but I thought this was funny.
(Scroll down to the august 17th strip.)
There are a lot of inconsistencies so far. I’m still bugged by the ransom note.
However, a guy has a warrant for here, I’m not sure how freely you can enter the states if that is the case. Looking at a few pics of him on Google image search shows him previously looking much healthier and “normal.” He has a receding hairline that doesn’t seem to have changed much from the prior pictures, which, given the dramatic change in his appearance, suggest to me that not a significant amount of time passed between photos. That being said, he looks sick to me. He looks unhealthy. Not just because he looks odd, but he looks sick. I’m curious if he has a health issue such as AIDS, especially given his penchant for hotel choices and extensive travel. If so, I would think medical care here would be much better than say, Thailand.
So, my hair-brained theory is he is a pedophilic nutbar, seeking the limelight and an easy way to get back to a home he isn’t allowed to come back to.
Am I the only one that thinks he looks physically sick? And that has noticed a pretty prominent deterioration?
My stand-up comic friend has a little bit about McDonald. Part of it is: “Have you heard Jeffery McDonalds latest excuse? He says he cut his family shaving.”
You can enter the States very easily when you have a warrent here for your arrest. You can either get arrested for another crime committed in the USA, or you can surrender to the police for the existing warrent, or you can attempt to enter the USA surrepticiously, and then proceed to be arrested at the airport after they scan your passport.
Whichever method you pick, you get in no problem. Karr chose the first option.
Or did you mean “enter freely” literally?
First, as since I desire you to join and my desires are LAW around here ;), are you a “Jean” or a “Jean?” I mean, M or F? Not that it really matters, though I’m nicer to women thanks to my upbringing…
This belongs in another thread and requires a final DNA analysis, which isn’t forthcoming as far as I can find.
I’m stealing that, despite its limited audience. 
You posted almost exactly five hours after I posted a link to an article with the same information, see post 115.
Let’s face it–we just don’t know enough, here.
The 7 year long investigation by local cops/prosecutors was bungled from the get-go, & all our info comes from that, & a few recent press releases.
Current investigators are playing this close to their chests, & telling us little.
We don’t have enough good info to tell what’s what.
I’ve crossed over. He’s guilty. The clincher for me is the initials “SBTC” at the bottom of the ransom note. Apparently it stands for “Shall Be The Conqueror”, and someone has produced a high school yearbook where he wrote ISBTC (For I Shall Be…) under his signature.
That ransom note makes interesting reading.
I know a little about how those things can be misanalyzed.
When I was about 13, I got hold of a really ancient typewriter, and a friend and I wrote an ‘extortion letter’, to a local worthy, purporting to be some Syndico-Anarchist bunch, and demanding cash, otherwise he would be assassinated on a specific day.
‘Assassinated’ was in red, but because the typewriter was old and shaky, it came out one third black, with red above. We were very pleased with the effect.
We got the front page of the local newspaper, and even a mention in the Nationals. They went on about how good the grammar and spelling were, we were rather pleased.
Unfortunately we got grassed up.
Now about that letter analysis.
It is obvious that someone knew about the $118,000 bonus.
What is really interesting is that they knew the volume of $118,000 in $100 and $20 bills - now that is really unusual.
How was his bonus paid ?
Who would see his account - and who would be familiar with the volume of a sum of cash that very few people see ?
Possibly someone whose g/f works in a bank, or big sister, or mother ?
The spelling changes don’t strike me as at all significant, people make mistakes all the time, anyone reading the SDMB can see that.
The ‘foreign faction’ stuff is obviously a pathetic attempt to suggest that the writer is /not/ right next door. However it has the ring of a young male to me, certainly one over 9 years old. The detail reminds me of a ‘Just William’ type letter, but from an older version - William Brown at 17 yrs.
Given three pages of handwriting, it would be unlikely that there would not be noticable similarities between that of either of the parents, if one of them had written it. They could not rule out the wife - or the hand was slightly girlish ?
One can be certain that someone was trying to make it look like a kidnapping, but somehow they forgot to remove the body, my guess is that they never got around to it.
I would be looking for a male, under 20 yrs, probably not very strong, with a bite wound that bled, received while struggling with a sharp toothed six year old.
- You and your family are under constant scrutiny as well as the
- authorities. Don’t try to grow a brain John. You are not the only
- fat cat around so don’t think that killing will be difficult. Don’t
- underestimate us John. Use that good southern common sense of yours.
- It is up to you now John!
Now that reeks of material envy, and considerable familiarity.
All that ‘hence’ stuff means nothing, the Ramseys know the letter by heart.
- Any deviation of my instructions will result in the immediate
- execution of your daughter. You will also be denied her remains
- for proper burial. The two gentlemen watching over your daughter
- do not particularly like you so I advise you not to provoke them.
|The sentence “The two gentlemen watching over your daughter do not particularly like you so I advise you not to provoke them” is not very aggressive language. This would indicate that a woman wrote this note. Other statements in the ransom note such as “I advise you to be rested” also show a feminine touch. |
Nothing there makes me think that it was written by a woman, a slightly wimpish male who has invented a pair of heavies.
The Karr guy sounds like a total fruitcake.
dropzone, sorry I am male 
MacDonald’s minor injury, admittedly curious and slightly damning, coupled with other proof, would maybe have swayed me, but there is nothing else. Sort of like in the “West Memphis 3” case- are they guilty- possibly. Is there any evidence linking them to the killings? No.
And I also agree Karr looks like he’s suffering from AIDS.
Can you translate these terms into American Englsh?
Good lord, what kind of punishment did you get?
Sure, a woman called Richmal Crompton started a series of books about a young lad (about 12) with a fertile imagination and ability to get into trouble.
I am surprized to see that her first work was in 1919.
Thinking about it, in USA terms he would be a variation of Huckleberry Finn, possibly more than Tom Sawyer, since his inventions (lies) were pragmatic
- but his imagination was … a bit wild
- anyway the stories are amusing reading, they have a timeless quality
(actually there is quite a lot in them, they look at things with a different slant)
In that ‘ransom’ letter, I recognized a young male mind
- it was made up as it went along, a form of cascade.
Digressing, since I’ve been thinking about it
- why the head injuries, the tape and the garrotte ?
A mature female would be able to strangle an infant with bare hands, a small but mature female could have used a bare nylon rope - making a garrotte indicates a lack of relative strength (weak hands) but a degree of mechanical knowledge.
I have revised my view, or rather refined it, I would be looking for a slightly wimpish male between approx 14 and 17 years, who had a mother/sister/father that worked in the bank that Ramsey used for his account.
That letter sounded to me like a fairly well educated adolescent male.
Improvisation is what I see - adolescent improvisation.
All right. Now, what does “Unfortunately we got grassed up” mean?
They got caught, & possibly were fingered by a stoolie.
The very first view of him said to me that he had AIDS. He also had an extremely eerie way of walking, which I (sort of) remembered being the AIDS shuffle, of the few victims that I had seen in the 80s.
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