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2001 CHILD *advertiser censored* CHARGES: Sheriff officials mentioned possibility
(08-19) 04:00 PDT Washington -- Five years before John Mark Karr was arrested this week as a suspect in the killing of JonBenet Ramsey, Sonoma County authorities investigating him on child *advertiser censored* charges suspected he may have been involved in the death of the 6-year-old, according to a former attorney for the suspect.
Marie Case, who represented Karr on the 2001 misdemeanor charges, said Friday that members of the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department mentioned to her at the time that "there was possibly some involvement" in the Ramsey slaying 1,200 miles away in Boulder, Colo. -- "just saying, 'Hey, we're looking at this guy.' "
The old suspicions about Karr, 41, emerged Friday as one of his former wives combed through old family photos, mementos and financial records to establish whether Karr was with his family on Dec. 26, 1996, the day the girl's battered body was discovered. Karr told reporters this week that he was with JonBenet when she died.
Michael Rains, an attorney for Lara Knutson, who was married to Karr for a dozen years until late 2001, said Friday that she is looking for tangible evidence to reinforce -- or perhaps refute -- her memory that her then-husband spent that day after Christmas with her and their three sons in Alabama, where they lived at the time.
On Thursday, the Boulder district attorney said law enforcement officials are continuing to evaluate evidence.
Case said that she did not know the depth of the investigators' suspicion in 2001 that her client could have had a role in JonBenet's death. But she said it "seemed somebody dropped the ball." She said that she was not contacted by law enforcement officials from Boulder and that no one sought to test her client's DNA to determine whether it matched evidence from the Colorado crime. "It never went anywhere," she said.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/19/MNGICKLEUC1.DTL&feed=rss.news
2001 CHILD *advertiser censored* CHARGES: Sheriff officials mentioned possibility
(08-19) 04:00 PDT Washington -- Five years before John Mark Karr was arrested this week as a suspect in the killing of JonBenet Ramsey, Sonoma County authorities investigating him on child *advertiser censored* charges suspected he may have been involved in the death of the 6-year-old, according to a former attorney for the suspect.
Marie Case, who represented Karr on the 2001 misdemeanor charges, said Friday that members of the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department mentioned to her at the time that "there was possibly some involvement" in the Ramsey slaying 1,200 miles away in Boulder, Colo. -- "just saying, 'Hey, we're looking at this guy.' "
The old suspicions about Karr, 41, emerged Friday as one of his former wives combed through old family photos, mementos and financial records to establish whether Karr was with his family on Dec. 26, 1996, the day the girl's battered body was discovered. Karr told reporters this week that he was with JonBenet when she died.
Michael Rains, an attorney for Lara Knutson, who was married to Karr for a dozen years until late 2001, said Friday that she is looking for tangible evidence to reinforce -- or perhaps refute -- her memory that her then-husband spent that day after Christmas with her and their three sons in Alabama, where they lived at the time.
On Thursday, the Boulder district attorney said law enforcement officials are continuing to evaluate evidence.
Case said that she did not know the depth of the investigators' suspicion in 2001 that her client could have had a role in JonBenet's death. But she said it "seemed somebody dropped the ball." She said that she was not contacted by law enforcement officials from Boulder and that no one sought to test her client's DNA to determine whether it matched evidence from the Colorado crime. "It never went anywhere," she said.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/19/MNGICKLEUC1.DTL&feed=rss.news