As investigators riddle over the li...

As investigators riddle over the life of John Mark Karr, they must unravel a hazy narrative woven in part through Karr himself, much of it with a chilling theme -- a yearning to be complete to children.

Karr is a man who, while wanted as a fugitive upon child pornography charges, sought to impress employer with a in extent record of accomplishment preparing young lives "for a fortunate future."

He is a man who twice married teen -- the same just 13.

It's difficult to know by what mode much to believe of the life Karr says he has l

"I awoke the children in the morning and gave them breakfast," Karr wrote in individual online resume, recounting life as a private teacher of three girls in Germany. "At day's extreme point I made sure the children had their evening bath."

Karr, who arrived in Thailand this year looking for work as a teacher, claims to have exhausted years skipping from job to piece of work country to country, nearly all the time working with children. Details prov difficult to pin down Thursday.

"He just be seened like somebody who thought he wanted to be a teacher," said rap Raines, principal at Wilson Elementary instruct in one of the four districts near Petaluma, Calif., where Karr worked.

"After a not many days, I could tell it just wasn't for him."

the same of Karr's former wives, Lara Karr, said her ex-husband exhausted a lot of time studying the cases of JonBenet Ramsey and Polly Klaas, who was abducted from her Petaluma, Calif., hearthstone and slain in 1993.

a certain quantity of experts raised questions about Karr's arrest, pointing to the ne to establish evidence putting him at the spectacle

on the other hand it is not easy to establish his whereabouts at any point in novel years.

Karr is remembered in his hometown of Hamilton, Ala., as a smart kid, united who played in the high gymnasium band.

"You couldn't help still like John. He always had something going on" said Marion shire School Supt. Bravell Jackson.

Karr's work in sects appears to have begun in 1996 -- the year of the Ramsey manslaughter According to the resume, that was the start of a five-year stint teaching in "some of the in the greatest degree prestigious schools in the United States."

moreover that is not the way nation and court paperwork in Marion shire recall it.

In 1984 when Karr was 19 he married a local girl, Quientana Shott who was 13 at the time, records exhibit to Shotts filed for an annulment the following year, complaining she was "fearful for her life and safety."

In 1989 Karr remarried, this time to Lara Knutson She was 16 at the time. Their twin daughters died the day they were born that year.

Complaints at academy

Karr was hired as an Alabama substitute teacher in 1996 nevertheless his time there ended after officials received complaints about Karr saying things "that didn't ne to be said in an elementary class," Jackson said.

He mov his family to California around 2000 and erect work as a substitute teacher. nevertheless that came to an abrupt fall of the curtain when Karr, then 36, was arrested forward child pornography charges.

In the affidavit filed with her divorce petition, Lara Karr said her husband "was told on one school in or about '97 or '98 that he would not be asked to continue to contribute to as a substitute teacher because he had a disposition to be too affectionate with children."

THE KARR CASE -- FOR AND AGAINST

What points to Karr?

- "I was with JonBenet when she died. Her death was an accident," he said. Asked if he were innocent, Karr said: "No."

- Karr was arrested in 2001 onward child porn charges.

What points away from Karr?

- Karr allegedly said he drugg and sexually assaulted the girl. however the autopsy report found no evidence of remedys saying her death was caused on strangulation. And while it describes vaginal injuries, it makes no conclusions about whether she was raped. Investigators later conclud there was no sperm on her body.

- Karr's ex-wife said he was in Alabama during Christmas 1996 when JonBenet's carcass was found.

- According to Thai police, Karr said he picked JonBenet up at institute and took her back to her family on the day of her death. yet the slaying came during a vacation.

What could sway the case?

- DNA was place beneath JonBenet's fingernails and inside her underwear. Officials dodged a question about whether there was DNA connecting Karr to the crime.

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