Brooke Simmons is the 22 year old woman who is dating John Mark Karr. Brooke Simmons and John Karr got into a domestic dispute in early July 2007 and Karr was arrested.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- It is one of the most notorious cold cases in recent memory. A 6-year-old girl, a child of beauty and privilege, was found dead in the basement of her home in Boulder, Colorado, on the day after Christmas 1996. JonBenet Ramsey was found dead in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado. Story Highlights False suspicions, unsecured crime scene plague investigation from start Ramsey family spends years under "cloud of suspicion" New touch DNA test cleared all... Read Full Story
CNN : It is one of the most notorious cold cases in recent memory. A 6-year-old girl, a child of beauty and privilege, was found dead in the basement of her home in Boulder, Colorado, on the day after Christmas 1996.
The strangulation of JonBenet Ramsey is also among the coldest of cases. Twelve years have passed, and again it is Christmastime, the season of JonBenet's death.
The investigation has taken many heartbreaking twists and turns, including a false confession and baseless... Read Full Story
I was enjoying my morning coffee yesterday when (play nails on a chalkboard sound in your mind here) Uber Fiend John Mark Karr's whispery voice floated from the TV. That unmistakable, unsettling sound got me running from the kitchen to the TV, only to catch the last second of the teaser, "Next up, we talk with John Mark Karr!" CNN, for whatever reason, engaged this slippery perv in yet another meaningless interview. I thought after the repeated uncomfortable pauses with Greta Van Susteren... Read Full Story
"Thanks to Brooke, she brought me back to life," Karr, 42, said at his home. "If it wasn't for her, I'd still be inside my apartment, not leaving." Yeah, nice quote buddy, but you're a crazy man and you should be in jail not out and about. You wanted fame and you chased it by falsely claiming that you murdered an innocent girl. You played the press and preyed on the fears of everyone. And now you're preying on Brooke Simmons. Brooke, if you read this: wake up! He's a nut case. Get away... Read Full Story
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Annette Witheridge Last updated at 10:04 PM on 06th February 2009
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Child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was murdered on December 24, 1996 When this six-year-old beauty queen was murdered, police were sure her parents were guilty - only to see them cleared. Now, 12 years and 100 suspects later, disturbing doubts remain... and the family face new questions. As a veteran of the child beauty pageant circuit, the precocious six-year-old had... Read Full Story
She claims that the domestic dispute was minor and that John Karr wasn't going to really hurt anyone. However, when the police arrived they decided to take him into custody because they noticed signs of physical violence. The phone was shattered and Karr's father had cuts and scrapes.
Both Karr's father and Simmons said they don't think he would've been taken into custody if not for his infamous name. Zgonc said it is routine for an arrest to be made in domestic violence cases when a... Read Full Story
WASHINGTON _ Citing an unprecedented window of public closure, U.S. Justice Department officials today tied now-dead 62-year-old Army scientist Bruce Ivins to the murders of Chandra Levy, JonBenet Ramsey, Tupac Shakur and victims of the infamous Zodiak Killer of the 1960s. "Fuck it, we're going for broke here," FBI Director Robert Mueller told reporters, after adding to Ivins' deathlist the Green River Killer and Notorious B.I.G. "An opportunity like this only comes along once in a lifetime... Read Full Story
Brooke Simmons said they discuss the Ramsey case, but she insists she doesn't want to know whether he had any involvement in the killing. "I want to separate our relationship from that," she said. "I tell him I don't want to hear anything about it. But no, I don't believe he's a violent person." Read Full Story
I was enjoying my morning coffee yesterday when (play nails on a chalkboard sound in your mind here) Uber Fiend John Mark Karr's whispery voice floated from the TV. That unmistakable, unsettling sound got me running from the kitchen to the TV, only to catch the last second of the teaser, "Next up, we talk with John Mark Karr!" CNN, for whatever reason, engaged this slippery perv in yet another meaningless interview. I thought after the repeated uncomfortable pauses with Greta Van Susteren... Read Full Story
US prosecutors say new DNA tests have cleared the family of JonBenet Ramsey of involvement in the six-year-old beauty queen's death in 1996. Tests point to an "unexplained third party", said Boulder county district attorney Mary Lacy. She says prosecutors don't consider any member of the Ramsey family to be a suspect. In 1997, Lacy's predecessor as district attorney, Alex Hunter, said that JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, were under an "umbrella of suspicion". Lacy apologised to the... Read Full Story
