Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Frankenstein's Monster--an e-mail I sent to Mary Lacy
Every time I think of JonBenet for the rest of my life, I will see Karr's perverted, smirking face. I will hear his words, hear his insane, cruel voice. I will see, in oh-so-graphic detail, every murderous thing he said he did to her in that moldy basement room. I will never again be able to see just JonBenet's innocence, without Karr's sickening descriptions entering my mind. He has forever tainted JonBenet, marked her as his own as surely as if he had been convicted of her slaying.
And you, Mary Lacy--you, who are not embarrassed; you, who are only embarrassed on behalf of us morons who dared to believe your lies--you had a hand in this. Every person who has followed this case, every person who has ever felt pain at the death of this sweet child, will forever link her name with Karr's. Because of you. Because you decided that his e-mails, unlike every other e-mail confession (Lin Wood said there have been many e-mail confessions, did you know that?), deserved your attention. Because you decided that the safety of a Thai child mattered more--oh, so much more--than the safety of every child in America.
John Mark Karr will get out of jail within months. He will be free to roam this country at will, thanks to you and you alone. He won't roam, though, Mary Lacy, be sure of that. John Mark Karr will come back. His obsession with JonBenet guarantees that much. He will come back to you, Mary Lacy. And by the time he does, can you guarantee that he will not, by then, have escalated beyond all hope? Can you guarantee that your own personal Frankenstein's Monster will not return to you with genuine blood on his hands?
Blood on his hands...Blood on your head. Congratulations, Mary Lacy, on maintaining the sort of Boulder justice that Alex Hunter would be proud of. The DNA didn't match, and may even have had nothing to do with the murder, but you let Karr go. You cannot account for his whereabouts from December 23 1996 to January 2 1997, but you let Karr go. His accounts are mixed, contradictory (did you even once think he may be confusing several crimes into one?), and so you let Karr go. A trained professional warned you that he was on an escalating road to God-knows-where, so you brought him in to keep one Thai child safe...and then you let Karr go.
And you, Mary Lacy--you, who are not embarrassed; you, who are only embarrassed on behalf of us morons who dared to believe your lies--you had a hand in this. Every person who has followed this case, every person who has ever felt pain at the death of this sweet child, will forever link her name with Karr's. Because of you. Because you decided that his e-mails, unlike every other e-mail confession (Lin Wood said there have been many e-mail confessions, did you know that?), deserved your attention. Because you decided that the safety of a Thai child mattered more--oh, so much more--than the safety of every child in America.
John Mark Karr will get out of jail within months. He will be free to roam this country at will, thanks to you and you alone. He won't roam, though, Mary Lacy, be sure of that. John Mark Karr will come back. His obsession with JonBenet guarantees that much. He will come back to you, Mary Lacy. And by the time he does, can you guarantee that he will not, by then, have escalated beyond all hope? Can you guarantee that your own personal Frankenstein's Monster will not return to you with genuine blood on his hands?
Blood on his hands...Blood on your head. Congratulations, Mary Lacy, on maintaining the sort of Boulder justice that Alex Hunter would be proud of. The DNA didn't match, and may even have had nothing to do with the murder, but you let Karr go. You cannot account for his whereabouts from December 23 1996 to January 2 1997, but you let Karr go. His accounts are mixed, contradictory (did you even once think he may be confusing several crimes into one?), and so you let Karr go. A trained professional warned you that he was on an escalating road to God-knows-where, so you brought him in to keep one Thai child safe...and then you let Karr go.
