Remember Michael Tracey? He's the CU journalism professor whose obsession with the JonBenét Ramsey murder helped lead to a media frenzy over false confessor John Mark Karr back in 2006. Could his apparent disinterest in actual student instruction have finally caught up with him? One possible indica ... More >>
Not tweeting.JonBenét Ramsey can't raise objections about the person tweeting in her name, having been murdered in 1996 -- which is presumably why fake confessor John Mark Karr's been trying to create a JonBenét lookalike cult. But the faux-JonBenét can bitch -- and he/she is doing so abo ... More >>
John Mark Karr = Alexis Valoran Reich?Last week, we told you about allegations that JonBenét Ramsey false confessor John Mark Karr, who's reportedly undergone a sex change and now goes by Alexis Valoran Reich, is trying to create a cult of JonBenét lookalikes he's calling "The Immaculates." ... More >>
Imagine this face multiplied.When last we heard from John Mark Karr, the loonbag who managed to convince CU professor Michael Tracy that he'd killed JonBenét Ramsey, he had reportedly undergone a sex change and was now known as Alexis Valoran Reich. This prospect has spawned a Facebook grou ... More >>
John Mark Karr = Alexis Reich?Remember John Mark Karr? The man who briefly became a notorious in 2006 thanks to CU professor Michael Tracy's suspicion that he'd murdered Boulder tot JonBenét Ramsey? Well, he's b-a-a-a-ck. Make that she's back -- at least according to Inside Edition, which i ... More >>
It ain't easy being a shmuck. Not as mean as an asshole, not as ignorant as a shithead, a shmuck takes idiocy to an epic level, a moron whose fall from grace has far-reaching repercussions. We've been celebrating weekly shmucks for a long, long time -- but to be named one of Colorado's top 10 ... More >>
The late Dominick Dunne.Author Dominick Dunne, who died yesterday at 83, is best known for covering the nation's most sensational crimes and trials. But he never showed much interest in the murder of JonBenét Ramsey, to the frustration of some folks obsessed with the mystery over the Boulder ... More >>
The 2006 Message column "She's Back" begins like so: "There was never any danger of the Rocky Mountain News underplaying the August 16 arrest of alleged child-porn fan John Mark Karr in the 1996 slaying of JonBenét Ramsey. After all, the paper's previous coverage of this tragic episode had exhibi ... More >>
The arrival of a new district attorney in Boulder has some people expecting that the 12-year-old murder of JonBenet Ramsey will get a "fresh look." But what exactly does that mean? This mind-bending report in the Boulder Daily Camera suggests a new look means another look at John Mark Karr (pi ... More >>
Welcome to the 2006 Hall of Shame.
A decade of blunders, spin and hype hasn't solved the JonBenét Ramsey murder case. Is it time for the truth?
And the award for the worst Colorado performance on national TV goes to…
From the week of November 2, 2006
From the week of October 19, 2006
Business news is falling on local TV.
Get this: Journalists, and journalism professors, behaving badly.
The Karr fiasco is over, but Michael Tracey's quest for unlikely suspects in the Ramsey case goes on and on.
As one media squall weakens, another strikes.
Beaten back by Montana State, can the Buffs charge ahead with this new anthem?
The curtain falls on the latest JonBenét revival.
Quit horsing around, Bob Beauprez!
JonBenét brings out the media's worst -- again.
