Did He Kill JonBenet?

As the world knows by now, John Paul Karr, a schoolteacher, has been charged with the murder of JonBenet Ramsey. The little beauty queen was killed then years ago this Christmas, and her parents, Jon and his late wife Patsy, were for a time charged with killing her.

Karr confessed that he had "accidentally" killed JonBenet, and even sexually assaulted her. But a lot of questions are being raised on whether this rush to justice may have resulted in capturing the wrong person.

Like Christmas Day 1996, for example. As we know, JonBenet was killed the day after. Fingernail fragments were found, and obviously other evidence was found. Unless DNA evidence links Karr to the murder, and unless his semen was found in the area on JonBenet's underwear, then it looks like the case goes back to where it started- zilch. And another thing, Karr's then-wife said that he was in Alabama at the time of the killing.

Like everyone else, I too was caught up in the fervor that they have caught the killer of JonBenet Ramsey. But now, I'm sort of at a crossroads here. I must give Mr. Karr the benefit of the doubt here, yet I must also prepare for the possibility that they may have railroaded an innocent man. And another botch-up is not what Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy wants