JonBenetography

Interviews or case information about the tragedies of crimes against children are generally not revenue buckets for the victims' families. Then there are some potential profiteers and opportunists--


Nov. 13, 2008 Orlando Sentinel
Grandparents' spokesman profits from Caylee case

Grieving grandparents George and Cindy Anthony have learned a lesson in TV exploitation.

After insisting for months that they haven't made any money from the disappearance of their grandchild, the Anthonys' lawyer released documents Wednesday indicating that a family spokesman pocketed $6,500 from NBC without the couple's knowledge.

On Wednesday, George and Cindy Anthony's attorney, Mark NeJame, accused Larry Garrison, a California man who offered the couple public-relations advice, of "pimping" his clients out.

He [Garrison] also represented the family of John Mark Karr, who falsely admitted to killing Colorado 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey.

Although he denied being paid in the Anthony case, Garrison said he sees nothing wrong with getting paid for negotiating with news agencies to arrange interviews with his clients.

Leonard Padilla, the California bounty hunter who thrust himself into the case and helped orchestrate Anthony's initial release from jail, said he has been offered money for interviews and photos.

On Wednesday, Padilla said he turned the deals down, saying it was bad "karma." But Padilla is associated with a Web site that charges viewers $9.95 for a year of information about the Anthony case, including theories on what happened to Caylee.

Now back to JonBenet. Maybe aside from the book The Death of Innocence, it's well known the Ramseys and their legal team, Tracey or the case investigators have not directly profitted off the case in this way. Period. Contrary to the less informed or hysterics, mainstream media traditionally doesn't compensate for interviews and or information for stories produced. If not those close to or a part of the case, makes one wonder who all may have profitted, all 'leaks', videos and photos peddled to the tabloids for over a decade considered.

And that begs the next question -- if Garrison was representing the Karr famly, who if anyone was compensated for Karr's interviews, videos and photos promoted by the non-mainstream media outlets that pay for such things?