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John Mark Karr is a free man. The judge in Sonoma county threw out all the charges against him. Karr is the man who about a month ago confessed to killing Jon Benet Ramsey. He was in Thailand doing only God knows what (though I do have my fair share of assumptions) when he confessed in front of cameras that he in fact was the killer in the Ramsey case.
The US government on little or no evidence flew him in Business Class from Thailand back to the United States on our (tax-payer) dime. They then dropped the charges (in Colorado) and sent him to California to face child pornography charges. Again that was on our dime. And now he is a free man.
First of all, he is a sick man. Anyone who would confess to a heinous crime that they (allegedly) have not committed is sick. Second, the government needs to recoop all of its costs. It seems to me that Karr got in trouble in Thailand doing something (only God knows I’m sure) and needed to split. Why purchase the ticket himself when the Uncle Sam can do the work and front the cost for him? It cost him a month of media attention and some traveling requirements, but he got his ticket paid for with benefits (I doubt he had to wait the long lines to get his bag and go through customs).
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