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(From CNN News)
Byline: Nancy Grace
NANCY GRACE, HOST: Tonight, the confessed killer of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, John Mark Karr, may walk. No DNA match, no murder case. But as of tonight, Karr`s not off the hook. Tonight, we learn Sonoma sheriff is seeking a brand-new warrant to investigate Karr`s ongoing child porn and more. And Karr has a meltdown in court when the judge refuses to give back allegedly the very last photo of JonBenet with her mother and Karr`s personal computer. Tonight, the woman who turned Karr in to California authorities explains to us why she`s convinced Karr`s done much more than collect porn. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MARY LACY, BOULDER COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY: This has been, you know, a disappointment on the part of the entire community and law enforcement and our office, on the part of everyone. I don`t think there`s anyone here who doesn`t want to solve this crime with the right person who committed the crime. (END VIDEO CLIP)
GRACE: Good evening everybody. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. Out to Court TV`s Jean Casarez, standing by in Boulder, Colorado. Where is John Mark Karr right now?
JEAN CASAREZ, COURT TV: He is in his cell in the Boulder County jail. He had a very good dinner tonight, and jail officials tells us he`s not causing any problems. He`s very quiet. He just sort of sits and is to his self (ph). GRACE: Is he in isolation?
CASAREZ: Yes, he`s in isolation. He has an 8-by-10 cell, stainless steel bed, stainless steel toilet, stainless steel washbasin, but he`s comfortable. GRACE: Why is he in isolation?
CASAREZ: He`s in isolation to really protect himself. And you`re probably wondering why, at this point, is he in isolation? Because his name is a household word, and they don`t want to mix him with the other prisoners because they fear that there could be danger towards him, John Karr. GRACE: Yesterday, Jean, in court, John Mark Karr, the confessed killer, now cleared through DNA, had a meltdown in court. Why?
CASAREZ: It`s very interesting because the defense said, Judge, your honor, all of his personal belongings came with him from Thailand to here in Boulder, Colorado, and he wants them back. Well, the assistant district attorney stood up and said, Your honor, I understand that, but he cannot have the picture we sent him. And Karr was very distraught about that. You could tell he was just upset. What we found out is that that picture is a picture that the DA`s office sent to Karr in Thailand. It`s a picture of JonBenet Ramsey and her mother. The reason we understand they sent that picture was to try to locate and identify him and to make sure that the person Professor Tracey was e-mailing was the person that would receive that picture. And John Karr brought that back in his luggage from Thailand. GRACE: He brought that back all the way from Thailand, that perv! Here`s my question. The district sent it to him, or was it under the guise of that Professor Tracey?
CASAREZ: It was under the guise of Professor Tracey, but it was the DA. The DA was leading this investigation the whole way, and they were responsible for a lot of things that Professor Tracey said and did. GRACE: So this picture, the last purported picture of JonBenet Ramsey with her mother ever taken before her strangulation death, he kept with him? That is sick! CASAREZ: Well, he doesn`t have it any longer. But you`re right, it meant so much to him that he brought it back with all of the personal belongings, clothes and even that computer that he brought back from Thailand. GRACE: Which leads me to the computer. Apparently, as we speak, Sonoma sheriff`s deputies are trying to get another yet another warrant signed for another search of his computer. Explain. And how many computers does this guy have?
CASAREZ: I think he`s got two, at least we know about. Now, the warrant you`re talking about out of Sonoma County is the computer he had in 2001 because that`s the…