TV station reports John Mark Karr has gone to Alabama

Associated Press

ATLANTA - An Atlanta television station reported Friday night that John Mark Karr, the man who briefly was a suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey murder, has been taken out of state by his father because of threatening telephone calls.

WSB-TV said Wex Karr, who lives in Atlanta, told the station he drove his son to Alabama last weekend.

An unidentified neighbor told the station that young Karr was in fear of his life and that his father was getting a lot of the same heat.

A telephone call to Wex Karr's home got no answer.

A neighborhood association began alerting its members that John Mark Karr was living in the community.

Jim King, president of the Chastain Park Civic Association, sent out an e-mail to the group's 2,000 homeowner-members announcing that John Mark Karr had moved into his father's home in the upscale north Atlanta neighborhood where houses are on the market for more than $600,000.

The e-mail pointed out that Wex Karr's home is about three blocks north of a playground and stated, "as you may recall there have been many published reports in newspapers on Mr. Karr relating to incidents in Colorado, California, and Thailand," followed by an Internet link to media reports about Karr.

King said he was unaware that Karr may have been taken out of the state.

"I have no relationship with the family so I have no way to know what is going on there," King said.

Wonder if his attorneys can keep his hands off that keyboard (for more purposes than for writing a book).

By ADRIANNE MURCHISON
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 10/28/06

John Mark Karr has apparently left his father's Sandy Springs home, driven away by pressure from neighbors, his father said Friday.

His departure came about a week after an e-mail announcing the arrival of Karr — the man brought back from Thailand as a suspect in the slaying of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey — circulated through several neighborhoods in north Atlanta and Sandy Springs.

"I don't know nothing. I'm not hiding anything. ... He's not here," said his 85-year-old father, Wexford Karr.

During the monthly Chastain Park Civic Association meeting last Monday, 35 residents spoke out and said they were concerned that Karr had moved into their neighborhood, said Jim King, the association's president.

"To say that they were concerned would be an understatement," King said.

Since that meeting, Wexford Karr has received harassing telephone calls, he said.

During a reporter's visit in Karr's home Friday, he received two calls from callers who appeared to remain silent on the other end of the line.

"Hello? Hello? Nobody here but me," Karr said into the receiver.

He reported the harassing phone calls to the Sandy Springs Police Department, but an official report was not filed, said Lt. Steve Rose, a police spokesman.

The department may add an extra patrol to Wexford Karr's neighborhood, Rose said.

During the past week, Karr and his son visited Hamilton, Ala., where they have relatives, to see whether John Mark Karr would be more welcome there. But after John Mark Karr stopped at a local Wal-Mart, word got out around town about his arrival, the father said. The two returned to Atlanta.

"Then his attorney called and the next thing I knew, John Mark Karr was on the road into oblivion," the father said.

Sandy Springs residents at a local Caribou Coffee were relieved upon learning that Karr had left the area.

"We keep a close tab on our kids," said Hubert Pereira, "but it's awesome that he's gone."

Added Rob Robinson, another resident. "His presence in the area was kind of disturbing."

In August, Karr, 41, was cleared by DNA tests as a suspect in JonBenet's 1996 slaying in Boulder, Colo.

Earlier this month, he was released from a California jail after a judge dismissed child pornography charges, saying prosecutors didn't have enough evidence to take the case to trial.

"I knew he didn't do it," said Wexford Karr, who'd been estranged from his son for nearly six years. "John Mark Karr couldn't kill a flea. ... I'd love my son no matter what ... whether he was a murderer or not."

The Karr family home in Hamilton, Alabama.

Shoppers in this plaza weren't expecting to see John Mark Karr back in town.

John Mark Karr

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Some residents of Hamilton, Ala. were a bit uneasy Friday when they found out that one of the city’s most infamous residents was back in town. John Mark Karr, the man once suspected of murdering six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, has returned to Hamilton.

News travels fast in small towns like Hamilton, and when Karr was spotted at a local store, word spread.

“I have a friend who knew him in high school,” said Carol Barrow, who lives in Hamilton.

“She IMd me and said, ‘guess who’s back in town.’ I didn’t know, and she said, ‘John Karr.’ I was like, ‘oh my gosh!’”

Police Chief Billy Own said Karr was seen at a Wal-Mart in Hamilton as early as Monday. He understands that people are concerned, but said there was nothing the police department could do because Karr hadn’t been convicted of anything.

No one answered the door when CNN’s reporter knocked on the Karr family home, though lights were on in the house.

One woman who lives nearby said she was angry when she found out Karr was back in Hamilton.

“We have looked at this house,” she said on condition of anonymity. “I’ve pulled up to this house, and it has a dark shadow over it.”

Others said they’ll just keep to themselves so long as Karr does the same.

Remember Nancy? The woman who said she is the one who physically wrote the ransom note? She said she and a friend, Mary, were writing a book and they wrote that ransomnote intending to scan it into the book....

I heard from Nancy. She wantedme to remember that Mary and she were .... a stone's throw from Hamilton, Alabama.

Just sharing...

That was a given, IMO

No, this is a different "Nancy". Nancy is the name Jameson gave her for forum use; it's not her real name. When you have time, do a search for posts by "I know" (these were written by "Nancy"). Apparently Jameson had corresponded with her long before she posted here (this year) as "I know". A poster named "Mint Julep" eventually did get in touch with Nancy and she has some posts also. I don't really know too many of the details, except that she has said she "wrote - not composed" the ransom note for someone who was going to write a book. She also lives in Alabama.