by Sepka » Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:12 pm
According to the UPI, at least one source claims that Karr's motherr tried to burn him alive as a child:<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060822-114012-8079r">www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060822-114012-8079r</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Ramsey suspect's mother tried to kill him</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>ATLANTA, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- The mother of a man who claims to have killed JonBenet Ramsey tried to kill him when he was very young, a friend of the family said in Georgia.<br><br>George McCrary, who says he has known Wexford Karr, father of suspect John Karr, for 40 years, said the suspect's mother, Patricia Elaine Adcock, "made a big round donut (of kindling) and put him in the middle of it" when he was a baby, ABC News reported Tuesday.<br><br>"She just boxed the little baby in and tried to light it," McCrary said, but John's older brother Michael "came running in just before she got the flame to the flammable material."<br><br>Adcock was committed to a mental institution and the marriage broke up. She died in 2000.<br><br>McCray told ABC the event had lasting effects on John Karr.<br><br>"From the time his mother tried to kill him -- he's been out-and-out paranoid that someone's going to try and kill him or take advantage of him," McCrary told ABC News. "He needs a psychiatrist worse than anyone I've ever met in my life."<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>-Sepka the Space Weasel <p></p><i></i>
