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What did you think of John Mark Karrs confession to the murder of JonBenet Ramsey?

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What did you think of John Mark Karrs confession to the murder of JonBenet Ramsey?

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Kassin: Certainly one interpretation is that he is confessing to involvement, apologizing and claiming that it was an accident because that’s what happened. But another possibility is that he’s making exactly those same statements because he feels trapped for one reason or another. The fact that he was claiming that the murder was an accident I find interesting, because interrogators often will script a confession using the theme that the crime was an accident as a way to make that confession more palatable to the suspect. What we would need to know is, first of all, whether his confession tells us details that couldn’t have been known in any other way but direct experience, that couldn’t have been gathered from the newspapers, or from his conversations with anybody, or from his interrogation, if he had been interrogated. The second thing we’d want to know is whether the details he does give — assuming he does give some detail, because I noticed he didn’t; in fact, it seemed to me tha

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