Is John Mark Karr Guilty?
ANNOUNCER: This portion of Glenn Beck is brought to you by John Mark Karr P.R. Public relations for fans of prepubescent relations. Just claim blame for the crime and go from back alley to front page in no time. John Mark Karr P.R., P.R. for the perverted.</s>GLENN BECK, HOST: All right, I know what you were thinking here. You`re thinking this JonBenet story is incredible. But it`s just not weird enough for my taste, right? Well, buckle up, brother, because here we go. Last night, I told you that after John Mark Karr confessed, I really felt guilty for mentally convicting JonBenet`s parents all these years. Today, I get up and I start reading the paper and I realize, "Geez, I think I feel guilty again today, but this time for another reason." I think I may have rushed to exoneration here. I don`t believe this guy at all. My turning point last night, I got home and I watched the press conference, if you will, this video, I mean, this, this is a freak show, isn`t it? I mean, this looks more like an appearance by a rock star than, you know -- or maybe appearance by a chess champion than the press conference with a murderer. And he`s also walking around unrestrained. I mean, is there anybody outside, you know, of the sex district in Thailand that has a pair of handcuffs we can throw on this guy? But more importantly, this is the video that turned me. His answers and his reactions tell the story. Watch this video.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Are you an innocent man?</s>JOHN MARK KARR, MURDER SUSPECT: No.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can you the tell us your connection to the Ramsey family?</s>KARR: No comment on that.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How did -- how did you get into the basement?</s>KARR: No comment on that.</s>BECK: I mean, that, that says it all. It was that second answer, that "no comment." I don`t think he even knows. You`ll confess to killing her, but you feel uncomfortable saying how you know the Ramseys from Tuesday night pinochle? He doesn`t seem credible. Despite the reports that, you know, he knows details that weren`t made public. And you know what that tells me? I haven`t learned a damn thing from this case. Now, I`m making another rash judgment in a murder investigation based on nothing but 17 seconds of video. It`s the same thing I did with the Ramseys. Somebody stop me. Most importantly, guilty or innocent, this guy creeps me out. Now, legally, that may not be enough to throw away the key on the guy, but let me lay out a case for you. Here`s John Mark Karr`s freak resume. Cops say he frequents Bangkok`s sex bars. He lived in a beautiful 0.3-star hotel that charges by the hour for easy access to these sex clubs. He married a 14-year-old. His wife says she was scared of him. It wasn`t because he was violent, just pushy. His second marriage just as weird, but this time, you know, he decided to go for the older woman. She was all of 16 this time. Plus, he named one of his kids Seven Exodus. Isn`t that enough to put him on trial? I mean, seriously? He was also arrested for child porn in 2001. He fired multiple times -- he was fired multiple times as a teacher, one time for being, quote, "too affectionate," end quote, with children. I am guessing that this resume was posted -- I don`t know, I mean it belongs on Monster.com, honestly. But to turn the weirdness factor up just one more notch here, reports say that he was apparently obsessed with celebrities, especially Sonny and Cher. I mean, of all the celebrities to be obsessed with, you pick Sonny and Cher? I can see it coming now. He`s going to confess very soon that he was posing as a tree on a ski slope some place. Look, here`s the deal. My gut tells me this guy wants to rap himself in that JonBenet case. I told you that last night, and I`m telling you, that`s what`s happening. But if Karr is lying about this confession, why? Why? I mean, need I remind you how unpleasant jail is for child molesters? I mean, how bad does your life have to suck that you think spending eternity in that situation is an improvement? What has this world come to, you know, if you can`t trust a man who married a 14-year-old arrested for child porn, moved to Thailand, confessed to drugging, having sex and murdering a 5-year-old, who can you trust, America? So, here is what I know tonight. I believe this guy should be locked up. I don`t, you know, exactly know for what, yet, and I don`t know how we do it, but I do know for how long. Eternity. I`m no constitutional scholar, but I am a thinker. I also know that if he didn`t do it and he gets out, he`s going to be humiliated and I think that puts everybody in danger of being the victim in his sick mission to prove he is a real child killer and not some non-child-killing poser. What I don`t know in this PC world of ours where we all are, "Hey, let`s just understand the molester" is how long it will take for people to start making excuses for this guy. I mean, you know it`s coming. Has it happened yet? I also don`t know how exactly to keep him behind bars. Sure, misleading the cops will get him into trouble, but I don`t want this guy walking the streets ever. Dr. Robert Berger, he`s a forensic psychiatrist. Dr. Berger, you think this guy is a danger regardless of his guilt in this crime?</s>ROBERT BERGER, FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIST: Yes, I mean, obviously, I didn`t examine him.</s>BECK: Right.</s>BERGER: But based on people I did examine who have similar profiles, yes, he`s dangerous to the welfare and safety of the community to a certain degree. Perhaps not the level of violence he`s confessed to, but certainly, to harming children from a psychological perspective and that`s sometimes equally as damaging to them.</s>BECK: Would you feel comfortable with him living next to your family?</s>BERGER: No. And this is a man who has actually apparently been a tutor to young children overseas.</s>BECK: Right.</s>BERGER: And just posing as an individual who can take care of children, represents a hazard as far as I feel, and a risk to the public.</s>BECK: OK. He apparently knew some gruesome details that police say only the killer knew, but he`s also got some other things wrong. I mean, how do you explain that, if he didn`t do it?</s>BERGER: Apparently, he had been obsessed with JonBenet Ramsey and others in the past. To the point that he studied almost every detail that was available, every book that was written, everything that was posted on the Internet. And the Internet is a large source of information now. And, of course, these comments from law enforcement are preliminary.</s>BECK: OK.</s>BERGER: We don`t know whether they`re matched up against the real information from the medical examiner or not.</s>BECK: Well, you were involved in another case of a 12-year-old girl, Polly Klaas, and he had the death certificate of Polly with him or had a copy of it. What does that tell you about the guy?</s>BERGER: It tells me that this is a man who becomes so immersed in his fantasy that it overcomes what his external reality is. And he assimilates more and more information that reinforces his fantasy more and more. Then you take some type of psychosocial stressor, something that happens in his world, where his some reality is unpleasant. And he becomes more and more immersed in his fantasy.</s>BECK: Oh, wait, wait, wait.</s>BERGER: And I think that he becomes -- he believes that he`s part of this.</s>BECK: Oh, wait, oh, no, I think it just happened. Wait a minute. I think it`s just...</s>BERGER: It`s not an excuse, no.</s>BECK: It just happened on my show.</s>BERGER: No, I`m not offering an abuse excuse, not at all.</s>BECK: You`re not saying that?</s>BERGER: No.</s>BECK: Because I mean, I -- I`ve got to tell you, I mean, it sounded to me a little like you were saying, "Hey, his reality is shattered. He doesn`t know what`s real and what`s not anymore."</s>BERGER: No, explanation is very different than excuse. And we can explain anyone`s conduct if we know enough about them. But that doesn`t excuse it.</s>BECK: What does this tell you? There`s two -- let me give you these two e-mails. He said, the first one was in the "Rocky Mountain News" today. It`s an excerpt of several of the e-mails and you should read the whole thing. It`s frightening. He said to the documentary filmmaker, "Go and stand in front of her house and read this to her." And it was "JonBenet, my love, my life. I love you and I shall forever. I pray that you can hear my voice calling to you from my darkness, this darkness that how separates us." What`s that?</s>BERGER: That creeps you out, doesn`t it?</s>BECK: Oh, oh...</s>BERGER: Scary. I mean, clearly, he has some sort of eroto-manic obsession at minimum. He`s just so clearly immersed in this individual, and it`s frightening. But it also tells you how -- how odd he is that he doesn`t appreciate or understand that somebody else is going to think that that`s pretty peculiar.</s>BECK: Yes.</s>BERGER: And he thinks that somebody`s just going to go out there and read his poem for him.</s>BECK: Right.</s>BERGER: And that`s somewhat scary.</s>BECK: Doctor, I appreciate your time. I`ve got to -- I have to tell you, what I fear is that we`re giving him exactly what he wants, a media circus. Thank you very much. Whether John Mark Karr is guilty or just plain nuts, or both, remains to be seen, but what I do know is when all is said at done, this guy has just gotten a free flight back to the U.S. out of the deal. And I do have a hunch I know what airline he will be flying.</s>ANNOUNCER: Are you convinced you were the second gunman in the Kennedy assassination? Are voices in your head telling you Tupac, Biggie and Jimmy Hoffa all died thanks to your murderous tendencies? Then fly free on Extradition Airlines. How easy is it? Just pick a great unsolved crime. Then simply report your crime to the local authorities and then leave the flying to us, Extradition Airlines. We love to fly homicidal maniacs, and it shows.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You`re now free to confess your crime.