A string of never- before-published e-mails by John Mark Karr, the slimy teacher who made a false confession in the JonBenet Ramsey murder, details his twisted obsession with young girls in his care.
The Post recently obtained the lurid e-mails in which Karr reveals his perverse passion and involvement with children while he was a fourth-grade teacher in Napa Valley, Calif.
In an interview with The Post, Karr also exhibited his eerie fixation with the notorious 1993 Polly Klaas murder case, breaking down and crying as he was read the killer’s confession.
A Post reporter contacted Karr at his Georgia home after meeting with Klaas’ killer, Richard Allen Davis, for 3½ hours at California’s San Quentin Prison on Feb. 14. It was Davis’ first interview since his 1996 conviction and death sentence for strangling the 12-year-old.
Karr, who has long been fascinated with Davis and once hoped to write a book on the case, was eager to know the answer to one question: Did Davis love Polly Klaas?
As The Post read the grisly details of Davis’ murderous mea culpa, Karr began weeping for Klaas.
“Precious baby. Precious little girl. Precious angel,” Karr said in quick succession.
But there was little hint of compassion in the lurid e-mails he wrote about the little girls he was supposed to be teaching.
“Today, a lovely 8-year-old girl came over to me and started to get into my lap. She ran her legs across me until she was pressing her crotch against my knee,” Karr wrote, noting: “It was sweet to gaze into her eyes. I wanted to kiss her all over her face, but I couldn’t.”
The e-mail is one of several that Karr penned in March 2001 to Wendy Hutchens, who met the Georgia native through a death-row Web site.
Hutchens confirmed to The Post that Karr wrote the e-mails, which she turned over to cops after receiving them.
Karr did not deny that he wrote the e-mails, but told The Post, “There was nothing in those e-mails that suggested anything sexual with a child because I detest sexual molestation. Wendy Hutchens misconstrued everything I said.”
In one disgusting missive, Karr discussed his attraction to girls of different ethnic groups.
“I have a 9-year-old . . . friend who loves to have her feet massaged and caressed. Many of my students are Hispanic. I have had some very affectionate encounters with some of them.”
One of those encounters was with a 7-year-old girl, whom Karr described as an expensive “doll” with pigtails.
“I love that little girl. I sat with her during recess today and gazed at her while we talked about things of interest to her. I wish so that I could rock her in my arms for hours until she falls asleep,” Karr gushed.
In another e-mail, Karr said he exercised restraint over his emotions out of fear of losing his job.
“If you only knew how much agony I endure because I love some of them so much and am not allowed to express that love,” he wrote. “It kills me, but I must not do anything to jeopardize where I have gotten in my career.”
Last August, Karr, 42, grabbed headlines as a suspect in the sensational, unsolved 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey. He confessed to the slaying, but DNA evidence cleared him.
Long before the JonBenet arrest, Hutchens blew the whistle on Karr, leading to his arrest on child-porn charges in Sonoma County, Calif., in 2001. Karr spent nearly six months in jail, but the charges were later dropped after authorities lost Karr’s computer hard drive containing porn.
Karr told The Post: “In light of everything, I am quite fortunate to be free and not in prison. It’s quite miraculous.”