more about Samantha

Media outlets are covering the threats made against Samantha Spiegel by the self-professed pedophile John Mark Karr and his quest to form a cult with young Samantha as his Manson-esque right hand. With much more on the table yet to be revealed, this is the first article I have seen that updates Samantha's well being after being manipulated and terrorized by Karr who is now trying to enhance confusion by using 2 other names he has legally transitioned to: Delia Alexis Reich and Alexis Valoran Reich - -

Woman Files For Restraining Order Against Karr
Published in the San Francisco News
By Tommy Garrett

"SAN FRANCISCO —A San Francisco area resident claims she’s being stalked and harassed by John Mark Karr, who is the man that was brought back to the U.S. in 2006 after he claimed he was the killer of Colorado child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey....

San Francisco News spoke with Spiegel’s attorney, famed children’s advocate Robin Sax this week. Sax stated, “Samantha is doing as well as can be expected. She feels so much better that the judge agreed that she is in danger from Karr and that so many people are finally listening to her and not blaming her, the victim. The judge has been great in understanding the danger my client is in. She’s doing much better than she was doing, I can say that.”

A spokesman for the San Francisco police said he could neither confirm nor deny that an investigation into the alleged criminal threats was being conducted. Also, a spokesperson with the district attorney’s office said it had not been presented with a case against Karr at the moment.

The national media outlets are taking this situation seriously and are leading a manhunt for Karr. “He does present a danger to my client and the community,” concluded Robin Sax." [read more]

oo-rah

"They defended us; now it is our turn."

Semper Fi

word from the wise

If I watched lots of TV, Keith Ablow, MD would be one on a top ten list for more specials or a series. I am more apt to read one of his books.

Keith is very kind and down to earth, not to overlook brilliant. Dr. Ablow is weiging in today on his experiences with self-professed pedophile John Mark Karr aka Delia Alexis Reich aka Alexis Valoran Reich --

Dr. Keith: The John Mark Karr I Know
Published on FOXnews

"John Mark Karr, who received worldwide attention in 2006 for confessing to the 1996 murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, is back in the news. Now, he is reportedly attempting to create a network of young girls with blonde hair and small feet, traits they share with the late JonBenet. He calls this network “The Immaculates.”

...When he knew he was being taped, Karr played it cool, insisting he had no sexual impulses toward children, only a desire to nurture them. Off camera, Karr confessed that he indeed desired sex with little girls, considered it normal to have sex with them, and thought our society’s sanctions against sexual intercourse with children deprived those children of their natural instincts to want sex with adults....

There is no question in my mind that Karr is indeed a pedophile and that he represents a risk to the community. While his writings and the news of him collecting JonBenet look-alikes may mostly reflect a flair for the dramatic, he is not pretending one bit when it comes to being willing to do almost anything in order to have a sexual relationship with a little girl...[read more]

Dr. Keith Ablow is a psychiatry correspondent for Fox News Channel and a New York Times bestselling author. His book, "Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty" has launched a new self-help movement including www.livingthetruth.com. Dr. Ablow can be reached at info@keithablow.com.

Third Impressions -- The Phony Investigation.

Third Impressions -- a/k/a Plausible Deniability.

During the protracted battle of wills between the Boulder authorities and the Defense Lawyers, it was clear the Boulder Authorities knew that time was on their side. The Defense Lawyers were being undermined by their own clients who were desperate to see progress made on the case no matter what the cost. The authorities were clearly the source of media leaks and had some grinning mouthpiece holding formal press conferences so the authorities knew they had the lawyers outgunned.

The Boulder Authorities did have available to them the concept of Plausible Deniability. The BPD in failing to test a blood spot on the panties knew that they could always avail themselves of that tired old standby excuse: we were awaiting further technological developments prior to submitting the sample for destructive testing. The BPD also knew that in sending investigators around to gather dirt on the Ramseys they need only demonstrate the depth and breadth of their efforts. Anecdotal statements from the various interviewees that the BPD were clearly fishing for dirt and ignoring any positive statements by the witness are simply never sufficient to overcome the public's belief that there was a neutral investigation.

Sending a team to the Vietnamese underwear factory or testing endless numbers of unsold packages until some human dna is finally found demonstrates the lengths to which the BPD would stoop in order to maintain their anti-Ramsey stance. Having a legitimate belief that the dna found at the crime scene came from the sneeze of a Vietnamese factory worker is absurd. As to how such a sneeze could cause dna to fall only on those minute portions of the panties on which Jonbenet's blood would later fall makes even the contemplation of such an absurd possibility an almost criminal waste of investigative resources and constitutes clear proof that there was no investigation going on. Clearly the BPD were conducting an enterprise that was closer to a legal witch hunt than an investigation.

Yet the police can always fall back on their plausible deniability stance. They control access to the investigative files and the allocation of resources. They know how the resources were deployed and they know what the real agenda was but they also control the speechwriters and public information spokesmen. So there is really no way to force the police to move in any direction than that which they choose.

There are notable cases wherein police forces have carried this to an extreme. Rapid LAPD were repeatedly urged by relatives of the victim to look at one female officer but this was resisted until dna tests were performed almost two decades later. Lothian and Borders police had even announced the magic phrase of "no other suspects" and "not a sex crime" despite the dead 14 year old girl having the dna from several men associated with her corpse and clothing. Only the boyfriend whose dna was not found at the crime scene was ever a suspect. The police are simply without proper oversight. One police force was able to properly deal with twelve separate homicide scenes during a one-day killing spree. A nearby police force found one corpse in a wooded area and simply left it unattended and uncovered in a rain storm until the next morning. Yet nothing happens to these incompetent police officers who are skilled mainly at finding excuses for themselves. After all, if two fourteen year old teenagers can make it over a low wall and half the drug buyers in the village can routinely make it over a low wall, don't you think a police officer should be able to make it over that wall so as to preserve the crime scene?

While the police are careful to maintain a facade of Plausible Deniability sometimes its just clear that the situation is simply "We Don't Want To Do Anything That Is Contrary To Our Whims"!

navigator offers reward for finding alleged cult leader

Looks like the hunt is heating up. A leading data research company owned by a law enforcement officer has put up a reward for Karr, er, Alexis' whereabouts - -

Visit www.alexisvaloranreich.com

Contact:

info@alexisvaloranreich.com

or victim's attorney

Robin Sax

Office: 310-470-9955
Fax: 310-477-5930
email: robin@robinsax.com
Web: www.robinsax.com

More on the front page FOXnews today:

John Mark Karr Re-Emerges to Form a JonBenet Cult

John Mark Karr, known and reviled for his false confession in the 1996 murder of 6-year-old beauty princess JonBenet Ramsey, has re-emerged on the Internet in a bizarre and much more terrifying role. And a manhunt is under way. He’s baaaaack . . . And he’s stranger than ever.

Read the breaking news on FOXnews.com

Second Impressions

Second Impressions.

After the series of errors at the crime scene and the series of errors involving the collection of forensic evidence and the interactions with other agencies, the case more or less settled down to a contest between the stubborn and arrogant BPD and the rest of the world.

The Boulder police were willing to do battle with the Denver homicide experts, with the Boulder District Attorney (even though he thought the parents were guilty), with a variety of experienced public defenders in Colorado and with a variety of Colorado sheriffs and prosecutors. Much of the battle took place behind the scenes, some of it was rather public. The parents may or may not have been ill-advised to go on CNN, but the BPD were already so stubborn that it seems greater consideration of the BPD's miffed egos would have made little difference.

The investigation soon deteriorated to a contest involving an embarrassed police department who felt it was their turf and they would call the shots versus defense counsel who had to battle not only bruised egos of the police but also their overly naive clients whose desires to have the investigation move forward betrayed their clients inability to realize that there was not and would not be an investigation, only a witch hunt.

This is the stage wherein greater tact, diplomacy or experience might have avoided a disgraceful lack of progress. Had the police been more skillful in asking the Ramseys to come to police headquarters that afternoon it might have been a totally different investigation. It takes skill to deal with people in extreme emotional situations and its clear that the BPD was never skillful in anything they said or did at the crime scene. Had some of the other agencies expertise been utilized, progress might have been made. Cops are very territorial and no street gang is more defensive of its turf than a police department is. Denver's experienced homicide detectives would have been an asset, but the Boulder police chief was not going to permit anyone to come into his turf wearing some other gang's colors. The lack of a neighborhood canvass is something that is universally condemned by other departments albeit usually in a private manner. The comments by witnesses concerning obvious bias in police questioning is from a class of persons not normally prone to complain of police methodology.

The focus was on the parents for emotional and irrational reasons but that focus stayed fixed on the parents due to police stubbornness. No one would budge and the BPD made it clear that their focus would remain on the parents. The leaks to the media were designed to create a psychological pressure on the parents not as some investigative function but solely as a retribution for having had the audacity to retain counsel,appear on CNN and generally fail to kow tow to the local police.

First Impressions.

I've wondered recently about first impressions and the JonBenet Ramsey case. We invest a great deal of discretion in our police and be they patrol officers or detectives they are pretty much on their own. Oh there can be budget constraints and a variety of other constraints such as a hot pursuit policy, but in reality the beat cop is pretty much on his own.

So in the very early stages of the investigation when information is filtering in and its all pretty much jumbled, contradictory, vague, ambiguous and confusing we have to have some action being taken despite all the uncertainty involved.

Someone contacted the FBI profiling types. Oh, okay so the unit has a fancy name and it doesn't use the title profiling but that's what they do, nevertheless. So what was given to the profilers? I don't know. What was available to be given to them? Well, such gems as "No Footprints in the Snow". Not exactly a true statement to begin with because one of the invited guests left his footprints in the snow. Also of great relevancy to the question of footprints is the corrollary: there was no snow on the paved approach paths that surrounded the house. There was never any reason to suspect that an intruder would have had some reason to cut across the snow covered grass and leave footprints.

What else was available? Okay, so we got a ransom note. Its long and its weird. That's about it. The profiler might have had nothing more specific than "there is something hinky about the note". We know that the FBI agents at a conference in Denver who were "beeped" to be on standby status for possible travel to Boulder felt the ransom demand was strange though they made no precise analysis of it.

What else: How about demographic information. The profilers might have been told that the parents are rich, the home seems neat and fairly presentable, there is no obvious drug use, the parents support their church and school. However, its unlikely that any of this information was really made available to the profilers. Probably the main thing that was said is that the kid's corpse was found inside the home ... by the parents! We surely know that the BPD didn't fess up right away to those profilers that the cops had bungled the initial searches and that having an ineffective detective on-scene sure didn't help matters any. Do we really expect the profilers to stop and recall that all their expert interviewing of perpetrators had involved low-class common vulgar drug addicts who live a life of constant strife, inescapable poverty and prior involvement with police and social service agencies? No. The profilers shoot from the hip and provide their "expert guidance" which basically is "look to the parents". This guidance from the FBI profilers then is used to re-inforce the opinions already held by the those luminaries at the BPD who have trouble with opening simple wooden latches.

Is it really any wonder the case got derailed right from the start? Stubborness aside, the performance of the first responders was so bad that the case went askew right away. No real case management. No control over the crime scene. Cops sent to search the basement but not knowing just how thorough to be or what they are really looking for. Cops certainly not reporting back what they have done and not done in that basement. On-scene detective never once went to the basement. Fouled up case right from the start!

Go Away!! Don't Bother Me!!

Go Away!

No, I do not know who this mononymous Beyonce is.

No, I have not ever before heard of a musical work entitled Single Ladies.

No, I have not ever seen anything that might be described as a Beyonce video associated with a song known as Single Ladies.

No, I've never heard of some eight hour competition known as World of Dance. Eight solid hours of anything boggles my mind. Eight hours of dancing would be an ordeal for me to watch. Eight minutes of dancing would be more than I could perform and anyone interested in watching me dance is hereby advised instead to simply use google to find a video of a beached whale.

No, I'm not sure exactly what a Precision Dance Team is, but I hope its fun, particularly if it has to be done for eight hours!

No, I've not watched that darned viral video everyone has been emailing me about.

Yes, After getting all those emails I did eventually click on a link and watch a few moments of the darned thing.

No, I did not find it the least bit interesting.

No, I don't think there is anything wrong about the costumes.

No, I don't think there is anything wrong about the dance routine.

No, I don't think those girls are victims of anything. They appear to be rather too happy for anyone to be even thinking of the word victim much less using it.

No, I have no idea at all about whether 8 or 9 year old girls should be doing this. I actually have no idea at all what 8 or 9 year old girls should be doing. They are dancing, They are not shooting heroin. It seems that they are happy doing so. It appears as if the dancing requires great preparation and practice as well as good nutrition and exercise. They are learning to focus their energy and achieve a goal. They seem happy and at ease with themselves during a public performance. I see nothing wrong with any of this and I most assuredly see nothing evil about it.

No, I see absolutely no basis for any of these endless allegations about sexually suggestive activities. Quite frankly, the comments about those dance moves or costumes being sexually suggestive made me think of the days of old wherein Abbie Hoffman would run alongside the tour buses that took suburban gawkers around the East Village. Abbie Hoffman was right. In running alongside the bus holding up a large mirror he was indeed allowing those tour guides to provide views of weird people who engage in strange activities. To those who see that dance routine as sexually stimulating, I can only roll my eyes in amazement at such thoughts and remind you that if beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then so too is filth! May I suggest that all those who are looking askance at the dance routine look instead into Abbie Hoffman's mirror.



No, I see no rational basis for invoking the name of JonBenet Ramsey as some sort of mantra in this situation.

No, I see very little potential for a viewer of the dance routine to somehow track down the participants and creep into their homes during the night to kill them.

No, I still do not see any evidence at all that JonBenet's pageant activities had the slightest thing to do with her murder.

No, I do not see anything wrong with her choosing to be participating in pageants or with her parents supporting her choice and making it fun for her. It was their daughter, their time and their money.

No, all this palaver and nonsense about some California dance troupe will not in any way solve the murder case!

So go away and leave me alone. I'm working on a homicide case and can't be bothered dealing with some busybody who wants to tell other parents what their young daughters should be wearing and what their young daughters should be doing.

Turning to a new page.

1. In the JonBenet case, the DNA was so small and could have came from the manufacturer of her underwear instead of an intruder..

2. Touch DNA aint gonna convince me JonBenet wasn't murdered by John or Patsy. I know damn well it was an inside job..

3. I think people can use DNA and hype it up like in the JonBenet Ramsey case..

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Sometimes it gets tiresome. These particular gems of wisdom happen to come from Levi Page, some sort of youthful internet Media Darling who is often on TV news shows.

I mean consider that underwear theory of his. Someone sneezes in a Vietnamese factory and the dna winds up in the panties but only in the locations that later had blood spots but not in any of the test swatches, yet that dna also somehow migrates to other garments, but only in the locations where an attacker would have placed his hands to undress her.

Consider his evaluation of the quality of evidence: DNA is the most reliable forensic tool we have but that is of no concern to him. He somehow knows that it was an inside job which of course is some sort of code phrase. A shorthand way of saying that the parents decided to kill their daughter, cause the husband to lose his job and the wife to lose her health insurance, spend all their money on lawyers and become the most hated couple in America. He somehow knows this and considers this knowledge that somehow came to him to be sufficient for us to ignore the highly reliable scientific results that are available as evidence.

Hype it up? You should know, pal!! Pure, utter hype.

I think I will turn the page!

rockin' robin

Great post by Robin Sax today about the often times unrecognized selfless efforts made by those in the media for good causes, like Diane Dimond's recent article about the search for the pedophile who lies about his association to the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, depicted here on a milk carton - -

The Value of Advocacy and Journalism
Published in Women in Crime Ink
By Robin Sax

"When it's used in relation to crime, the word “media” is often paired with such words as “sensation,” “frenzy," or even “tabloid media.”...Why do some cases draw media attention and others fall by the wayside? For example, why was the case of Amber Dubois highlighted less than that of Chelsea King (both were missing/murdered teens in San Diego)? Or why did Natalee Holloway and Jon Benet Ramsey make constant headlines while the names of Mitrice Richardson and Mickey Guidry barely registered? We can certainly draw our own conclusions about these questions from politics, timing, socio-economics or just basic psychology.

But sometimes, it's to the media that we owe thanks for spotlighting an issue, a cause, or a case that needs some attention.

A particular case near and dear to my heart is the most recent involving John Mark Karr (also known as Alexis Valoran Reich)...Diane Dimond’s article of May 10, 2010, “Help Stop this Man,” shows the true value of investigative journalism, as well as the power of using one’s voice to make change and seek justice. John Mark Karr, also known as Daxis, is now transgendered and assuming the name Alexis Valoran Reich (yes, as in the Third Reich!). He is reportedly living in a woman's homeless shelter in Seattle and seeking a teaching or nanny job. And he has a new victim.

On her site, Dimond shares her opinions, praise or criticism on urgent stories. As she says, she “holds a mirror up to our society and asks you to form your own opinion. It’s a complicated world out there, full of situations of good versus evil, right versus wrong. My job is point them out.” But this time she took it to another level. She wrote on May 10: “Today I want to ignite a nationwide manhunt. John Mark Karr has got to be located and stopped!”...[read more]

Learn more about the efforts to locate John Mark Karr aka Alexis Valoran Reich here

happy mother's day

Some things you may have learned from your mother, courtesy of BrainCandy. Have a great day!

1. My mother taught me to APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE. "If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning."

2. My mother taught me about RELIGION.
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"

4. My mother taught me about LOGIC.
"Because I said so, that's why."

5. My mother taught me about FORESIGHT.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."

6. My mother taught me about IRONY.
"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."

7. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."

8. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
"This room of yours looks like a tornado went through it."

9. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
"If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"

10. My mother taught me about the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."

11. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
"Stop acting like your father!"

12. My mother taught me about ENVY.
"There are millions of children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do."

13. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
"Just wait until we get home."

14. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
"You are going to get it when you get home!"

15. My mother taught me about MEDICAL SCIENCE.
"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way."

16. My mother taught me about ESP.
"Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you'll be cold?"

17. My mother taught me about HUMOR.
"When that lawnmower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."

18. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

19. My mother taught me about GENETICS.
"You're just like your father."

20. My mother taught me about WISDOM.
"When you get to be my age, you'll understand.

21. My mother taught me about SHARING.
" I’m going to give you a piece of my mind!"

22. My mother taught me about FEAR.
"One day you'll have a child who'll do the same things to you."

Georgia Innocence Project

The Georgia Innocence project is an arm of the original Innocence Project that at last count has helped free 251 wrongfully convicted individuals through DNA evidence. One of 50 such organizations nationwide, the Georgia Innocence Project is calling for scientist's and law enforcement alike to expand investigation to forms of evidence that includes searching for potential "touch DNA" left at crime scenes as in the case of JonBenet Ramsey - -

Law Day event spotlights DNA project, honors 2 standouts
Published in the Gainesville Times
By Stephen Gurr

"More than 4,000 people have asked a small Atlanta-based legal advocacy group to take a look at their criminal convictions with hopes of proving their innocence through DNA evidence.

Aimee Maxwell, director of the Georgia Innocence Project, told Friday's Law Day luncheon crowd at the Gainesville Civic Center that her tiny two-person office is currently reviewing 200 cases, including one from Hall County. Since 2004, the office has accepted 28 cases and exonerated five men.

"These people are innocent — there's not a ‘not guilty' aspect to it," Maxwell said. "The great thing about this data is it's encouraging criminal justice professionals and scientists to look at other forms of evidence that we use in criminal cases."

Just a few years ago, so-called "touch DNA" was not widely considered a viable form of evidence, Maxwell said. Use of the method in the JonBenet Ramsey case helped change those attitudes, she said. Last year, Maxwell's office used the analysis of skin cells left behind on a cell phone and article of clothing to clear a Georgia man in a carjacking case...[read more]

Rest In Peace.

The Daily Camera has reported that a college sophomore died of a drug overdose. It appears that alcohol intoxication is often overlooked by today's youth. The official determination regarding the possible presence of more potent drugs will await further toxicology testing.


Son of former Boulder County DA Alex Hunter dies of apparent overdose
By Erica Meltzer Camera Staff Writer

The son of former Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter, who was in office during the initial investigation into the death of JonBenet Ramsey, has died of an apparent overdose.

John Hunter Hauck, 20, was found by his roommates around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in an off-campus home in northwest Fort Collins. The death is not considered suspicious.

Excerpted from the following link.

Edit: BAC was .212 which is more than twice the legal limit for operating an automobile in Colorado. Toxicology tests for the presence of Oxycontin or other opiodlike sedatives have not been completed as of 21 May 2010.

the gang's all here

Samantha Spiegel and her attorney, legal analyst and former LA sex crimes prosecutor Robin Sax are featured guests this evening on The Dana Prezter Show over at Scared Monkeys Radio along with ET Correspondent Diane Dimond and investigator Logan Clarke on the breaking story of John Mark Karr’s latest victim.

Listen live at 6PM PT - 9PM ET

karr quest

All sorts of resources and personell are being put around Samantha Speigel and the quest to find John Mark Karr aka Alexis Valoran Reich. There is even a new website featuring the wanted flyer already circulating around the internet that you can email or print and distribute to help us find this dangerous pedophile transgender.

As nationally recognized attorney and NBC legal analyst Robin Sax wrote, read and follow what she has to say before you chalk him off as the nutbag that lied about killing JonBenet Ramsey....