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Saturday, May 08, 2010
Help Locate and Lock Up This Predator
By Diane Dimond
Today I want to ignite a nationwide manhunt. This guy has got to be located and stopped!
I'm sure you remember him: John Mark Karr, the slight, feminine-looking man with the receding hairline who was extradited from Thailand to Colorado after he very publically confessed to killing JonBenet Ramsey.
Back in the fall of 2006, police in Boulder, Colo., declared Karr's confession was phony when his DNA did not match what was recovered from the murdered beauty queen's underwear. His handwriting didn't match the ransom note.
They realized he hadn't even been in Boulder at the time of the murder.
They sent Karr packing — despite the fact that his laptop was full of child pornography — and wrote him off as a delusional loon who'd confessed for the attention.
Well, John Mark Karr hasn't stopped his weirdness, and he's now back on law enforcement's radar.
This time he's come to the attention of the San Francisco police department. He's apparently been roaming the Pacific Northwest, Seattle specifically, continuing to e-mail an unknown number of faithful minions and reportedly asking them to help form a cult of JonBenet look-alikes. He demands girls as young as 4, with small feet, and he prefers blondes. He calls this would-be child harem "The Immaculates."
I have seen Skype screen captures of him and e-mails communicating these desires.
Now, one of Karr's followers is turning on him.
Her name is Samantha Spiegel, and she says she's had enough of the madness.
Now 19, this beautiful brunette college student says she first met Karr at 9 years old as a student at San Francisco's Convent of the Sacred Heart School. He was the teacher every child "could hardly wait to see every day," she told me. "He's just so good with children."
Karr didn't last long in that job. He was mysteriously fired. But Samantha never forgot him.
After seeing Karr on television during the extradition proceeding, Samantha, who was struggling with drug abuse at the time, decided to reach out to him.
Although Karr was engaged to a woman (who had a 4-year-old daughter) he began an obsessive telephone and e-mail campaign for control of Samantha.
I've read his convoluted e-mails and could see how he attempted to brainwash her, to make her believe she was specially chosen to recruit Immaculates. Receiving thousands of e-mails a month from the unrelenting Karr, the vulnerable Samantha became consumed with pleasing him.
"It's scary looking back now. I would have sheltered him, or killed for him, to be completely honest," she says, as her voice trails off in a sheepish tone.
Samantha's parents saw the danger and put her in a treatment center for 16 months — away from Karr's influence.
In the meantime, in Seattle, Karr legally changed his name to Alexis Valoran Reich (as in the Third Reich). Upon Samantha's return home from treatment, in December 2009, another bombardment of e-mails came from Karr, according to a restraining order filed with the San Francisco police.
In graphic detail he continued his sex talk, especially about lusting after young girls and forming a cult. Karr also vividly described his recent sex change operation and sent his new Facebook picture of him looking like a woman. Who knows if this chronic liar is telling the truth about the operation. Karr also writes terroristic e-mails to Samantha under the names Drk Prnz (Dark Prince) and Daxis the Conqueror. Here are some examples:
"I still want that little (girl) cult!" — March 29, 2010 at 12:51 pm
"I can help you, (with drugs) Samantha. But if I find you have been deceiving me I will kill you and laugh as you die. Do you understand me?" — April 10, 2010 at 2:53 pm
"Give me your house phone number. If you cost me my little girls I will hunt you down and kill you." — April 10, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Samantha has done everything right as she struggles to rid her life of this predator. She's filed police reports, gotten a restraining order, hired a veteran former sex crimes prosecutor named Robin Sax as her attorney.
But Karr knows where she lives, goes to school and what kind of car she drives.
Posing as Alexis, Karr was last tracked by people who are following his activities to a homeless women's shelter in Seattle but told people there he was headed to "the Bay area" where Samantha lives.
No law enforcement official I've spoken to can understand why a man who constantly talks about sex cults and children and murder is still running loose. Sax hints darkly that she knows of other Karr victims out there who are just not as brave as Samantha.
"He is the worst kind of crazy. He's convinced not only the public but also many officials that he is just delusional but I think that's calculated . This makes him especially dangerous," she says.
With his penchant for running when he gets trapped, Karr could be anywhere. Keep an eye out for him, will you? If you see him contact police in San Francisco's Northern Division.
I hope they'll have more than just Samantha's restraining order waiting for him.
www.DianeDimond.net — e-mail to Diane@DianeDimond.net
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