Eyewitness in Ramsey Murder CaseWill there finally be justice for JonBenet Ramsey? If Karr's revelation leads to an eyewitness, only one person can answer that question.
INTERNATIONAL (Lei Sussurra) May 10, 2010 -- John Mark Karr's manuscript "DAXIS" revealed an important piece of information overlooked by authorities in 2006. Now Karr releases an excerpt from "DAXIS" in connection to his '09 Christmas message. Karr confirms that the excerpt revolves around the third stanza:
"you close your eyes so as not to see me; alas, you keep having that recurring nightmare and i promise it never to cease. But one saw me outside a nightmaRe - in the dead of night. draw out the shy one and all your nightmares will come true."
Karr's excerpt from "DAXIS" follows:
"Finally I have made it to the spiral stairway. I can do this. I can walk up these stairs and deliver this note. One step and now another. This will be over soon and I can be back with JonBenet. What is that noise? Damn it, someone is awake. That was a person’s voice. Oh damn! I’m trapped. I can’t move. I can’t go up any further. I have to get out of here. That was a voice. I’m certain of it. I have to get away. I can’t run. I have to be quiet. Oh God, I can’t return to JonBenet. I can’t return to the basement. I must run out the door. Damn it, my shoes. I left them at the top of the stairs in the basement. Now I must go back to the basement. God, I am going to get caught. I have to make it to that basement entrance before they catch me up here. I have to make an escape. I don’t know what I have to do. I only know that I have to get away. Finally back at the entrance of the basement. What if they are right behind me? What if they saw me reenter the basement?"*
Karr titled his '09 Christmas Message "Psalms 8:2" which is a verse from the bible that reads, "With praises from children and from tiny infants, you have built a fortress. It makes your enemies silent, and all who turn against you are left speechless." Karr revealed earlier, "Psalms 8:2 is about a person. Psalms 8:2 ponders what that person is now capable of doing. Psalms 8:2 is about those things that I am unsure of but must confirm or discount else I shall not be at peace with my freedom." Karr now reveals with the release of his third revelation that "Psalms 8:2" is about an eyewitness who saw him on the night of the Ramsey murder.
The "DAXIS" excerpt describes the failed delivery attempt of a ransom note that was later found scattered in various locations of the Ramsey home. In 2007, handwriting experts Don Lehew, Travis King, Curtis Baggett and Linda Arnold linked samples of Karr's handwriting to the ransom note. Some of the samples were written thirteen years prior to the night of the murder. The samples were found in Karr's Atlanta and Alabama homes by his then girlfriend, Brooke Simmons Dovgan, who he says encouraged him to turn them over to the experts who were convinced that Karr wrote the ransom note though their findings did not prove that Karr killed JonBenet Ramsey.
How could Karr have been seen by an eyewitness in the Ramsey home if he had such a strong alibi from his ex-wife in 2006? At the time of Karr's '06 arrest, the media widely reported that his wife in 1996, Lara Knutson, stated that she and Karr were at their Alabama home or his parents' Atlanta house that year, according to Knutson's attorney Michael Rains. But Knutson's alibi began to shake as Rains further stated, "But if you are to say to her, 'Are you absolutely certain?' she would say, "No," She has not said to the authorities that her memory is infallible."
Karr's only alibi continued to deteriorate when Boulder District Attorney Mary Lacy revealed more doubt from Knutson about her then husband's whereabouts on the night of December 25th, 1996. Lacy stated at a press conference, "The wife and he were to a great degree estranged at the time. So the former wife who we find to be very credible and very helpful and very cooperative, she did everything she could to dig up every document, photo she could find and she interviewed with officers for some 10-12 hours was unable to establish and when actually asked, "Can you state he was with you?", she had to say "No, I can't. That's not my best recollection," is what she said, "but I cannot state that.""
It was generally reported that Knutson was searching for evidence such as photos of Karr on Christmas 1996 that would prove his innocence. In reality, Knutson was being considered as a material witness for the prosecution and was also searching for such items as credit card receipts that would place Karr in Boulder in and around the date of the Ramsey murder. No such receipts were reported by the media to have been found but neither were any photos ever found of Karr taken on Christmas 1996 that would place him in Alabama or Atlanta on the night of the Ramsey murder.
Surely Karr can depend on the DNA evidence to protect himself against a potential eyewitness account. After all, Mary Lacy used this evidence to exonerate both Karr and the Ramsey's. Unfortunately for Karr, this DNA find has been linked to no one, making it the most famous "Dead End DNA" in criminal history.
An eyewitness is defined as one who sees another person commit a crime. In this case, Karr points to a person who saw him in the Ramsey home which is very different from a person who witnessed a murder. Eyewitness identification is powerful evidence against a possible perpetrator. Some consider eyewitness accounts to be second only to genetic evidence, if not more powerful, to convince a jury of the guilt of a defendant. It has also been established that eyewitness accounts can be highly flawed and sometimes so incorrect that innocent people have been convicted as a result.
Will an eyewitness finally speak and lay to rest a thirteen year old murder case? It might be compulsory for a potential eyewitness to at least comply to questioning by law enforcement according to Colorado state law.
*DAXIS, by John Mark Karr, Copyright 2006, All Rights Reserved
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"you close your eyes so as not to see me; alas, you keep having that recurring nightmare and i promise it never to cease. But one saw me outside a nightmaRe - in the dead of night. draw out the shy one and all your nightmares will come true."
Karr's excerpt from "DAXIS" follows:
"Finally I have made it to the spiral stairway. I can do this. I can walk up these stairs and deliver this note. One step and now another. This will be over soon and I can be back with JonBenet. What is that noise? Damn it, someone is awake. That was a person’s voice. Oh damn! I’m trapped. I can’t move. I can’t go up any further. I have to get out of here. That was a voice. I’m certain of it. I have to get away. I can’t run. I have to be quiet. Oh God, I can’t return to JonBenet. I can’t return to the basement. I must run out the door. Damn it, my shoes. I left them at the top of the stairs in the basement. Now I must go back to the basement. God, I am going to get caught. I have to make it to that basement entrance before they catch me up here. I have to make an escape. I don’t know what I have to do. I only know that I have to get away. Finally back at the entrance of the basement. What if they are right behind me? What if they saw me reenter the basement?"*
Karr titled his '09 Christmas Message "Psalms 8:2" which is a verse from the bible that reads, "With praises from children and from tiny infants, you have built a fortress. It makes your enemies silent, and all who turn against you are left speechless." Karr revealed earlier, "Psalms 8:2 is about a person. Psalms 8:2 ponders what that person is now capable of doing. Psalms 8:2 is about those things that I am unsure of but must confirm or discount else I shall not be at peace with my freedom." Karr now reveals with the release of his third revelation that "Psalms 8:2" is about an eyewitness who saw him on the night of the Ramsey murder.
The "DAXIS" excerpt describes the failed delivery attempt of a ransom note that was later found scattered in various locations of the Ramsey home. In 2007, handwriting experts Don Lehew, Travis King, Curtis Baggett and Linda Arnold linked samples of Karr's handwriting to the ransom note. Some of the samples were written thirteen years prior to the night of the murder. The samples were found in Karr's Atlanta and Alabama homes by his then girlfriend, Brooke Simmons Dovgan, who he says encouraged him to turn them over to the experts who were convinced that Karr wrote the ransom note though their findings did not prove that Karr killed JonBenet Ramsey.
How could Karr have been seen by an eyewitness in the Ramsey home if he had such a strong alibi from his ex-wife in 2006? At the time of Karr's '06 arrest, the media widely reported that his wife in 1996, Lara Knutson, stated that she and Karr were at their Alabama home or his parents' Atlanta house that year, according to Knutson's attorney Michael Rains. But Knutson's alibi began to shake as Rains further stated, "But if you are to say to her, 'Are you absolutely certain?' she would say, "No," She has not said to the authorities that her memory is infallible."
Karr's only alibi continued to deteriorate when Boulder District Attorney Mary Lacy revealed more doubt from Knutson about her then husband's whereabouts on the night of December 25th, 1996. Lacy stated at a press conference, "The wife and he were to a great degree estranged at the time. So the former wife who we find to be very credible and very helpful and very cooperative, she did everything she could to dig up every document, photo she could find and she interviewed with officers for some 10-12 hours was unable to establish and when actually asked, "Can you state he was with you?", she had to say "No, I can't. That's not my best recollection," is what she said, "but I cannot state that.""
It was generally reported that Knutson was searching for evidence such as photos of Karr on Christmas 1996 that would prove his innocence. In reality, Knutson was being considered as a material witness for the prosecution and was also searching for such items as credit card receipts that would place Karr in Boulder in and around the date of the Ramsey murder. No such receipts were reported by the media to have been found but neither were any photos ever found of Karr taken on Christmas 1996 that would place him in Alabama or Atlanta on the night of the Ramsey murder.
Surely Karr can depend on the DNA evidence to protect himself against a potential eyewitness account. After all, Mary Lacy used this evidence to exonerate both Karr and the Ramsey's. Unfortunately for Karr, this DNA find has been linked to no one, making it the most famous "Dead End DNA" in criminal history.
An eyewitness is defined as one who sees another person commit a crime. In this case, Karr points to a person who saw him in the Ramsey home which is very different from a person who witnessed a murder. Eyewitness identification is powerful evidence against a possible perpetrator. Some consider eyewitness accounts to be second only to genetic evidence, if not more powerful, to convince a jury of the guilt of a defendant. It has also been established that eyewitness accounts can be highly flawed and sometimes so incorrect that innocent people have been convicted as a result.
Will an eyewitness finally speak and lay to rest a thirteen year old murder case? It might be compulsory for a potential eyewitness to at least comply to questioning by law enforcement according to Colorado state law.
*DAXIS, by John Mark Karr, Copyright 2006, All Rights Reserved
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Copyright 2010
All Rights Reserved
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