Saturday, August 19, 2006

Did John Karr write in code?

Forgive my fascination with the Karr case -- but the mystery has become something of a national pastime, hasn't it? I have a feeling that, in the end, the guy is going to turn out to be nothing more than a sick fantasist. But even so, some of the clues are unnerving...

For example, check out this usenet posting from 1997 (and yes, this really is the same Karr):
To the Treasured ones. Eak, Ache, somber.

-------------==== Posted via Sexzilla News ====------------------
http://www.sexzilla.com
Code. It's gotta be code. But for what, I wonder? Sounds to me like the guy was networking with three contacts...one with a name beginning with E, another whose name begins with A, and another whose name begins with S.

Why hasn't the media tried to contact anyone else involved with Powerwurks?

And why hasn't anyone asked Lara what she knew about Powerwurks? I am limited in what I can say, since she is not a public figure. But if Karr was using Powerwurks in 1996 to troll for the underaged...and if she knew about it...well, there are implications.

Some have speculated that the horror novel Dark Resurrection was written by the John Karr linked to the Ramsey case. In fact, that author is a different Karr.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Home break case ?


Miss P.

Milo Johnson said...

Eep, opp, ork, ah-ah...

Anonymous said...

I think the 'test' posts are significant. Quite a few end with a name: Teresa, Doyle, Suresh, Chiko Patel, etc. Interestingly enough a google search shows up a Chiko Patel and a Suresh, both from Hamilton who appear to lived there at the same time as Karr. Both would have been young boys at the time....

Anonymous said...

What about the 1998 psychic's sketch of Jon Benet's killer?

Psychic Dorothy Allison believed she knew what JonBenet's killer looked like and provided a sketch to the Ramsey family, based on her visions.

The Ramsey family Web site published the sketch, asking the public, "Have you seen this man? This man may have been in the Boulder area in December 1996."

The sketch was also given to Boulder police, who continued to insist that nobody outside the family was likely involved in the crime.

A comparison of the sketch side-by-side with that of a picture of suspect John Karr appears to show remarkable resemblance.

Allison originally came up with the sketch during a 1998 appearance on the nationally syndicated Leeza Gibbons Show. Allison died a year later.


The sketch looks a lot like Karr.

Anonymous said...

Possible link from Karr to the JonBenet ransom note - just offered for your thoughts ... I believe Karr is a whack-job, and while initially I felt he wasn't involved in the actual murder; now I'm not so sure. The link also helps explain motive: religious nut + obsessive pedophile = "sacrifice" of child.

I was curious about the "SBTC - Victory!" signature at the end of the ransom note... felt it is possible Southern-Baptist inspired, and sure enough there's this: a well-known and still-much-read Baptist writer/evangelist, Octavius Winslow - often quoted by Billy Graham - with many writings about "Be the Conqueror" and "Victory" (over death)... see http://www.radiomissions.org/gleanings/conquerors.shtml

By itself, not much of a link... but when you add also "To the Treasured Ones" ... Curious about the phrase "the treasured ones" I resorted to Google... it turns out to be a very, very rare phrase. If you exclude examples where people are writing about mundane things (like "in my jar collection I keep the treasured ones on a shelf"), then there's actually only one use of it - sure enough, our friend Octavius Winslow again, talking about "The Treasured Ones," children and loved ones who are snatched by death away from us, and using Abraham's "necessary" sacrifice of his son as a positive example. Check out

http://www.biblebb.com/quotes/death.htm

Creepy excerpt: From Octavius Winslow's, "A Good Man's Misinterpretation of a Dark Providence"

We are born to die.
The treasured ones around us have within them
the seeds, and upon them the sentence, of death.
The brilliant eye, the roseate cheek, the vermilion
lip, the tall, graceful form shooting up, as in a night,
like a cedar, are often to a skillful and discerning
glance, but as flowers blooming for the tomb.
Our home circles, with all the powerful barriers
which affection and influence can cast around them;
guarded as by angel sentinels of love; are not a
security against the entrance of 'the king of terrors'.

Youth cannot resist him.
Beauty cannot awe him.
Wealth cannot bribe him.
Eloquence cannot persuade him.
Learning cannot confound him.
Skill cannot baffle him.
Tears cannot move him.
Religion cannot evade his icy touch.
To all this, his uplifted dart is inexorable!

He takes….
the prince from the throne,
the ruler from the state,
the orator from the senate,
the judge from the bench,
the minister from the pulpit,
the head from the family,
the mother from the home,
the babe from its mother's arms.
None, none are spared!

(end of excerpt)

These two clues seem to tie (in a different way) the Ransom Note to Karr's Yearbook to a pseudo-religious-sacrifice motive ("victory" + "conqueror" + sacrifice).
BPD should check to see if he ever read/owned any books by (or books quoting) Octavius Winslow (according to an online encyclopedia, "one of the best Baptist preachers in the 19th century…born in New York, but ministered largely in England…more than forty books")

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