Karr’s Ex-Wife: He’s Not Guilty
Posted August 17, 2006 12:00 pm.
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He’s provided details authorities claim only the killer could know.
But is John Mark Karr really guilty of the heinous crime?
A court in the U.S. will likely make that determination at sometime in the future, after the suspect is extradited to face murder charges.
But at least one person believes the main suspect is innocent – his ex-wife.
Lara Karr lives in Petaluma, California where her former husband taught school. She claims he was with her on Christmas night in 1996 and that they weren’t even in the state when the killing took place. She recalls that they were in Alabama and she’s adamant that, despite his confession, the father of her three children did not commit the crime.
She can’t account for how he allegedly possesses knowledge only the murderer might know. But she recounts that he was always obsessed with the case and that he did constant research into the infamous incident. Her inference: that could be the source of his inside information.
Karr also can’t explain why her husband would confess to a crime she’s sure he didn’t commit and she doesn’t know what he may have told detectives to convince them he did it.
Neighbours who remember Karr don’t recall him as the kind of man capable of committing such an act. Yet a few remember a man they never quite felt comfortable with.
“Personality-wise, I think there was a little kink that I saw,” claims Sylvia Ross, who remembers him as “too friendly, too talkative, too inquisitive.”
“It is shocking,” she admits. “I don’t know if I hope it is true or not. I just feel sorry for his children.”
Karr and his wife split up in 2001, the year he was charged with possessing child pornography. He fled the country soon after.
