DENVER -- The suspect in the slayin...

DENVER -- The suspect in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey called the 6-year-old girl "my have a passionate affection for my life" and prayed that the little beauty queen could hear his voice "calling out" from the darkness separating them, according to e-mails he sent to a Colorado professor.

"Sometimes little girls are closer to me than with their parents or any other someone in their lives," wrote John Mark Karr. "When I belong to myself as JonBenet's closest maybe now you understand."

takes of the e-mails were published Friday in the stubborn Mountain News. The exchange took place between Karr and Michael Tracey, a University of Colorado journalism professor.

Tracey said the e-mail correspondence began four years ago. He contacted prosecutors in May, yet has not explained why or disclosed details of the messages.

The newspaper said it obtained the e-mails from a source end to the investigation that it did not identify. Tracey has said the correspondence was voluminous, and he was sought public by Karr because he has produc documentaries upon the case.

'JONBENET, MY regard with affection MY LIFE'

The e-mails reviewed by way of the newspaper did not disclose any possible character in JonBenet's death. But they provide a glimpse into the thinking of a 41-year-old man who showed a difficult interest in young girls.

"JonBenet, my have a passionate affection for my life. I love you and shall forever like you," according to an e-mail Karr sent Dec 23 2005 "I pray that you can hear my voice calling on the outside to you from my darkness -- this darkness that now separates us."

The e-mail asked Tracey to visit JonBenet's antique home in Boulder and read aloud the lyric poem which he called "JonBenet, My Love"

In single in kind message titled "Pretty Little Boy" Karr claimed he was the bring under rule of "a four-state federal investigation for child kill and child molestation."

In Washington, federal law enforcement officials said Friday that Karr's notes since his arrest have piqued their interest and they want to question him. on the contrary one official said "there is no four-state federal case" in which Karr is wanted or plane suspected. The official spoke in succession condition of anonymity because the case is being handled according to local prosecutors in Colorado.

'FASCINATION' WITH YOUNG GIRLS

At common point, Tracey wrote, "You told me formerly that your mother tended to raise you as a girl. This must have had a powerful weight on your developing sexuality -- confusion maybe?"

"Michael, I will not discuss my sexuality as if it is a psychological disorder," Karr corresponded "On the other hand, if you would like to learn something about my sexuality forward an intellectual, non-judgmental, non-traditional and non-psychological way, I would be pleased with to share. It would help you understand a parcel about my connection with JonBenet and possibly about the case."

Karr said his father was a "strong influence on the other hand rarely around," and responded to Tracey's question about whether his "fascination with little girls -- which clearly has a efficient erotic component -- is a way of going back."

"Maybe I am not going back however have simply stayed consistent," Karr replyed "My peer group has not changed since I was a little lad and girls were the clan I was with always."

SYMPATHY FOR burst SINGER

In united e-mail, Karr brought up the legal travails of report singer Michael Jackson, long subject to scrutiny for what seemed to his critics to be unusually stop relationships with young boys. "I will rehearse you that I can understand folks like Michael Jackson and have feeling sympathy when he suffers as he has," Karr wrote

Karr also said he was "tortured" because of his at hand situation, which he did not disclose. At common point, Karr also referred to the movie "Finding Neverland," about the author of Peter Pan.

"I can no other than say that I can relate same well to children and the way they think and feel" he wrote "I think you are asking if I am earnestly a 'Peter Pan.' In many ways, the answer is ye In other ways, I deem it is no because I am trapped in a world that does not understand."

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