I just can’t get behind this! A. John Mark Karr was into little girls, not boys. These guys don’t bother with the gender they aren’t interested in so he wouldn’t waste his time shipping little boys into a pedophile ring. B. I don’t think he was mentally stable enough to organize this kind of thing. It’s not an easy…

Would it be possible for you to post a link to that AMA? I’ve never been on reddit and have no idea how to navigate the site. If it’s too much trouble, no worries.

Oh jeeze I think that’s the person who’s comment I just flat out dismissed the other day. It was such obvious, really offensive trolling, and I’m almost 65. I don’t have enough years left to deal with shit like that. So buh-bye.

Yeah that’s mostly what I’ve heard about the brother too. Apparently both the kids were in therapy and the brother had an issue with bed wetting and doing things with feces I guess?

“Slasher films might have perfected the murdered sorority girl, writing on her body the fetish of destruction. But they didn’t invent the fantasy, they just used it to suit their own purposes. Bundy and Rodger might have said the same.”

Hi St. E; Only outside people thought that. No one who actually worked on the case did except the idiot local police for about a day or so (my dad was a missing child expert and was brought in to help after the local police fucked everything up. he said there is no way in hell the mother didn’t write the ransom…

It really is. Powerful, thought provoking and beautifully written.

Ah, good ol’ Snopes!

Most people think it was her brother. If you go check out unresolved mysteries on reddit (I KNOW I know but they have some good spooky stuff) there's a ton of entries on jonbenet and there was an AMA with the chief investigator

My best friend on kinja is Unrepentant Punk. We have tons of laughs together, but a nice side benefit is she knows damn near every troll in the Gawkerverse. Her radar is impeccable. If you are ever curious about someone in particular, just ask her.

There are lots of serial killers that avoided being caught because they picked victims less likely to be missed, or victims with lifestyles where sudden disappareances were common. Bundy himself might have gone on killing in Florida longer except his last victim was kidnapped from her middle school and virtually every…

I just listened to a pretty good conspiracy theory about this. Apparentally, John Mark Carr, the man who falsely confessed to killing Jonbonet Ramsey, used to provide Thai children to VIP pedophiles like Dennis Hastert at the Thai embassy. Anyway, the Thai authorities were going to arrest him, so in order to cover up…

I always thought those rules were to protect the image of the institution (also thinking of early airline “stewardesses” who weren’t allowed to drink in uniform and other examples). I hadn’t considered the idea that it’s to protect the other women from men who’d follow you back to them, which leads me to consider the…

She’s a hell of a writer.

Yeah, pay him no mind. I had to be reminded that he was the prolific troll “Tomatoface” once driven from our midst and now back under a new demented burner. He likes to come back under the names of obscure breeds of tomato.

Liked the article. Bundy got/gets a lot of attention because many of his female victims were white, I think, and conventionally good-looking girl nextdoor types. Compare that to Gary Ridgeway, who killed far more women than Bundy, but most were prostitutes and black. It took much longer to catch him, because such…

Same, not at FSU though. Not always enforced for long term boyfriends that everyone was familiar with, but something we adhered to surprisingly seriously (given that we were otherwise a pretty “fun” group).

Same. Chi O at U of Wyoming. Also no wearing letters out to bars or any place someone nefarious could follow you home.

Avoid LenaDunhamsTesticles down there; as though the name weren’t obvious enough, LDT is a pretty dedicated misogynist troll, spends most of his time on Jezebel and its sister sites harrassing Anna Merlan and anybody who suggests misogyny is real... then acts deliberately obtuse, refuses to acknowledge facts that run…

I was a Chi O. We weren’t allowed to have men upstairs at all, except for half an hour before a social event, supposedly because of Ted Bundy.