

In an interview with US news show 20/20, expert Cina Wong said there were more than 200 similarities in the writing of the ransom note and 100 samples of Patsy’s penmanship.

Penned on pages torn from the pad Patsy Ramsey kept by the telephone, it was handwritten and one expert has claimed it is ‘highly probable’ Patsy wrote the note herself. The issue of the ransom note remains under scrutiny. Karr – who later made headlines after identifying as a female – also claimed the kidnap letter found at the Ramsey house was fake and simply there to make her death look like a ‘botched kidnapping’. Nobody came in there and did a paedoerotic thing to that little girl, but it was made to look as though it was done that way.' ‘Something happened to her had to take care of it,’ he told the program. Karr also said JonBenet’s body was ‘tampered with in a bid to cover up who the killer was’. Where she was found in that basement is not where she died,’ he added. ‘How she was found, that’s not how she died. But I was not the person who caused it,’ he said, explaining ‘panic’ had ensued after her death. ‘Nobody wanted that little girl to die that night – nobody.
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Most compellingly, DNA evidence did not connect Karr to the crime scene, and so he wasn’t charged.īut in a bizarre interview that aired on the 2016 US TV show Investigation Discovery’s series JonBenet: An American Murder Mystery, Karr, then 51, stuck to his story. He also couldn’t explain how he had managed to gain access to the Ramsey family home.

Karr claimed to have drugged JonBenet, but an autopsy failed to find any drugs in her system. JonBenet’s parents always maintained a stranger had killed their little girl, and in 2006 it seemed they may be proved right when a man confessed.Ī 41-year-old teacher named John Mark Karr was arrested in Thailand after saying he loved JonBenet, was with her the night she died, and that her death was accidental.īut quickly his ‘confession’ failed to ring true.
