JonBenet killer arrested - psychics not involved

Starthinker said:
I think my rendering looks much more like him. Do I get a hit? I drew this not 10, but 11 years ago!!!
[qimg]http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/LAW/08/17/ramsey.arrest/story.john.mark.karr.jpg[/qimg][qimg]http://home.mchsi.com/~starthinker/images/jbrk.jpg[/qimg]
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Although I'm sure you're joking about it, no, your rendering looks much less like him than the psychics' did. It doesn't take anything away from criticizing psychics to acknowledge that this psychic's sketch looks improbably like the current suspect. That can happen due to pure chance.
 
These last two sketches were made by psychics.

For those who believe in the paranormal, how do they look when compared to Karr?
 
Another sketch made by a psychic. I think this one is the closest in resemblance to Karr yet. What say you?

[qimg]http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/images/08/17/newt1.video.karr.jpg[/qimg]
 

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You know, the question shouldn't be how much the sketch looks like Karr. That basically begs for confirmation bias. A better question would be: How much does this sketch look like anybody? If you took the sketch and six pictures of relatively similar men (including Karr) out in the street, would the average person match the sketch to Karr?

Here's another question to which we know the answer: How much did the sketch help in aprehending this suspect? Did you guess "Not at all"?

And here's yet another question that's popping up today: Did Karr really do it? His ex-wife says he was with her in a different state the entire time. Maybe this guy is just nuts, wracked with guilt over his pedophelia and excited to confess to a famous crime.
 
So who wrote the ransom note that was found in the house? ALways found that part of the scenario odd,seeing as the murdered kid was always in the house.
 
[qimg]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2006/08/17/ujonbenet.jpg[/qimg]

Say, this one's really close to a psychic sketch. Look! They are both looking to the right!
 

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Another factor is that there are several psychic sketches of the same suspect. If enough sketches are made, eventually one of them is going to be close. By the way, why don't all of the psychic sketches look the same?
 
nightwind said:
Another case that has always bothered me was the Scott Peterson case. This guy was sent down, but really without any evidence. This guy was a real ass, but there is no real evidence that he did this crime, and I have a strong feeling that the killer in this case is still out there, and because the case was "solved" it will never really be solved.

But I hope that justice is finally served in the Ramsey case.
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I know this is off-topic, but they found Laci's blood and hair freaking everywhere. Not to mention the blood and the mop. Plus the receipt from parking at the dock. This is only a portion of the evidence, and it's pretty damning in and of itself.

Back on topic, the sketch really does sort of look like him. I find that really bizarre. And if you're going to pick six people off the street to compare it to, they would have to be six random people entirely (not six people of similar appearance) because we are working under the assumption that the psychic built the sketch from nothing, not from a loose description of someone.
 
bjb said:
Another factor is that there are several psychic sketches of the same suspect. If enough sketches are made, eventually one of them is going to be close. By the way, why don't all of the psychic sketches look the same?
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As far as I know, there was only one psychic sketch ever made of JonBenet's killer.

The other sketches I have posted here were for other cases. :D :D :p :p

http://website.lineone.net/~enlightenment/coral_polge.htm

http://www.elizabethbaron.com/stories_rapist.htm

http://www.everetthealthcare.com/ce-crime.htm
 
RichardR Of course said:
sketch of the "killer"[/URL] given by psychic Dorothy Allison:

[qimg]http://www.crimelibrary.com/graphics/photos/notorious_murders/famous/ramsey/12a.jpg[/qimg]

Will be interesting to see how this pans out.
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So the psychics got their man (okie dokie smokey). He really blabbed about it but there seems to be something about the guy wanting to get caught. He will be the most reviled man in America. Really feel for the family now and how this has played out on them. Any more psychic crime solutions out there?

WD
 
I'll wait for the DNA tests before jumping to conclusions. This guy might just be one of those that confess to crimes without doing it.

Didn't Sylvia Browne "predict" that the case would never be solved and the killer was a women? I seem to remember her saying that some time ago.
 
Harlequin said:
Here's another view of him, which looks much more like the psychic picture, but very little like the one linked to above. Odd. There's a new way for a psychic to be more sure of a "hit": draw a weird picture and then just find some angle from which the killer resembles your picture.

It appears to me that most of the resemblence is in the eyes, seeing that he has the same expression on his face here.
[qimg]http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/LAW/08/17/ramsey.arrest/story.john.mark.karr.jpg[/qimg][qimg]http://www.crimelibrary.com/graphics/photos/notorious_murders/famous/ramsey/12a.jpg[/qimg]
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Few people detest psychics more than I. But however she did it, I have to admit the psychic's drawing is actually pretty close to the suspect, at least to my untrained eye. Then again, both have a pretty generic, white-bread look.
 
Dave1001 said:
Let's give this one to the psychic. It may have been random chance, but she got his likeness in a statistically improbable way.
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Not improbable at all. She simply described a thin, caucasian male. That sketch could be likened to millions of men.
 
FFed said:
I'll wait for the DNA tests before jumping to conclusions. This guy might just be one of those that confess to crimes without doing it.

Didn't Sylvia Browne "predict" that the case would never be solved and the killer was a women? I seem to remember her saying that some time ago.
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She did??

Sorry folks, nothing to see here. This is not our man!

;)
 
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