Ramsey family members are major stakeholders. Add Boulder law enforcement authorities, who had been criticized for bungling the original case 10 years previously, and now for spending $23,656, including two business-class airfares, to bring a delusional man back to face dubious charges. There are many stakeholders in this case, including the media, Tracey and, of course, Karr himself. The Question: Do you break a confidence with your source if you think it can solve a murder or protect children half a world away? In JonBenets home town of Boulder, the Daily Camera ran 120 stories during the same period. Could you resist this story, especially if you were in Colorado? In the first three weeks after Karrs confession, the Rocky Mountain News ran 150 stories about him, including this first-day lead: The decade-long search for JonBenet Ramseys killer came to a startling end in Thailand on Wednesday. The Denver Post probably ran a similar number, but its web site list cuts off after 10 hits. WHO: Put yourself in the shoes of a news director or managing editor. But he wasnt freed he also faced misdemeanor child pornography charges in California. Karr was returned to Boulder for DNA testing and ultimately cleared. Karr had initiated the correspondence, apparently intrigued by Traceys argument, in documentaries and elsewhere, that John and Patsy Ramsey had been unfairly implicated in their daughters death. Karr was arrested after Michael Tracey, a journalism professor at the University of Colorado, alerted authorities to information he had drawn from e-mails Karr had sent him over the past four years. (The murder was a media obsession for much of 1997, and video clips of the young beauty contestant competing in various costumes ran, it seems, every few hours.) During questioning, he confessed to the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, who had been beaten and strangled to death in the basement of her Boulder, Colorado, home sometime during Christmas night 1996.
WHAT: John Mark Karr, 41, was arrested in mid-August in Bangkok, Thailand, at the request of Colorado and U.S.
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