The new John Mark Carr jailhouse interview.
Why he says he's no monster, and Carr's ex-in-laws break their silence.
Why the family's coming forward now, plus this former friend says Carr tried to buy
her for one million dollars.
You go from he's just a strange bird to whoa.
And she dated Carr.
Do you think John Mark Carr killed John Benet?
Then think America's obsessed with this case?
Look what's going on overseas.
John Benet Ramsey.
From Europe to Asia.
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The global phenomenon.
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Now, Inside Edition with Deborah Norville.
Hello everybody and thanks for joining us.
I'm Diane McEnerny and today for Deborah Norville.
It's the new jailhouse interview from John Mark Carr and the former teacher is quoted
as saying he's no monster and he also reveals why he decided to admit his role in the killing
of John Benet Ramsey.
Les Trent reports.
John Mark Carr says he acted alone in the murder of John Benet and said he spoke out
because he needed to heal.
The New People magazine out Friday expands on the now famous public statements made by
Carr after his arrest in Bangkok.
I love John Benet.
In addition to what he said on camera, he told his guards, I need closure and her family
needs closure.
All of us have gone through enough pain.
People say I'm a monster and a horrible person.
They don't know me.
They won't approve of what happened, but I don't approve of what happened.
Worse than anything, John Benet is gone.
She is here only in spirit.
He basically says, look, I'm trying to do something good here, hard as that is to believe.
He's saying I'm trying to bring closure to the Ramsey family.
He's also saying I want to end this mystery.
And new details are emerging about Carr's life in Thailand.
Staff at this hotel where Carr was living reportedly found doses of the female hormone
estrogen apparently to prepare him for a sex change operation.
One thing that we learned about Carr going into his background was the guy has a short
fuse.
He's got a bad temper.
He'd be yelling, he'd be screaming, he'd be throwing chairs around.
And Carr is reportedly complaining to jail guards in Los Angeles about having to wear
an anti-suicide garment similar to this one.
It's a tear-proof kimono-style garment called a Ferguson and was worn by Scott Peterson
when he was on suicide watch in jail.
And there's new information today linking John Mark Carr with the ransom note left at
the home of little John Benet.
The family of this woman, Carr's former 13-year-old child bride, Quintana Stotz, told Good Morning
America, Carr signed love letters to her with the initials SBTC.
The killer signed the same initials on the ransom note.
Carr also signed his high school yearbook, I Shall Be the Conqueror, SBTC.
Quintana's mother, Melissa, wept as she recalled the day her daughter ran off with Carr.
When you get up in the morning and you go in the bedroom and your daughter's not in
her bed, you look under the bed, you look in the closet, you look in that room.
It's an eerie echo of the morning Patsy Ramsey discovered John Benet's empty bed.
Wednesday we caught up with Quintana and her family.
Meanwhile Carr's second wife, Laura Knutson, is talking extensively with Boulder detectives
investigating John Benet's murder.
She told them Carr was never away from home long enough over Christmas 1996 to fly to
Boulder and kill John Benet.
And her attorney told reporters, if you say to her, are you absolutely certain?
She would say no.
She has not said to the authorities that her memory is infallible.
Carr family members say they would like to hire a high level attorney to represent him.
We're now learning more about John Mark Carr through women in his past who until now have
remained silent.
Inside Edition spoke exclusively to one woman who says that John Mark Carr made an indecent
proposal and actually offered money to her boyfriend so he would step aside.
We're learning more about John Mark Carr's pattern of obsessive behavior.
This woman went to high school with Carr and has a shocking story about the teenager she
knew.
It's a very strange bird, just a little different from the crowd.
Hope Fadar spoke to our Jim Murray at her Colorado home, ironically just an hour's drive
from Boulder where John Benet Ramsey was murdered.
But she grew up in Alabama near Carr and they both attended this local high school.
Hope says when she was 15 and Carr was 18, he became interested in her but she was seeing
someone else.
She was shocked when Carr offered her then boyfriend one million dollars to have her
for himself.
I just remember my boyfriend coming to me and saying, you're never going to believe
John Carr offered me a million dollars for you.
The outrageous proposal is right out of a Hollywood movie.
1993's indecent proposal had to mean more, inspiring a million dollar offer from Robert
Redford.
Did you have a sense that he was serious in trying to persuade your boyfriend to let you
go?
Oh definitely.
And I don't know that there would have been a million dollars changing hands but I think
he was very serious in the offer that he made.
This is the note Carr wrote in Hope's yearbook after the incident, an elaborate, curvy script.
I'm really sorry things couldn't work out.
Her boyfriend wrote this note in response, no matter what John K tries to offer me, he'll
never get you because I wouldn't trade you for all the world's treasures.
Hope later married and divorced her boyfriend but her memories of John Carr stuck with her,
especially his relationship with Quintana Shops, his first child bride.
What was your reaction when you heard about that?
Well there's John Carr doing something crazy and strange.
An Inside Edition has obtained more details about Carr's obsession with little girls.
Glenda Edwards was 20 years old when she dated Carr for a few months.
Did John Mark Carr ever ask you to do anything strange?
He was like, well can you go pick me a 12 year old girl on a bicycle?
John Mark Carr asked you to help him pick up a 12 year old girl?
At first she thought his request was a joke but then Carr married 16 year old Laura Knutson.
The red flag went up and I'm like, he was serious.
Later Glenda became friends with the couple.
I could tell that he was very controlling with Laura, you know, she'd be nervous and
she wouldn't talk very much.
Glenda first met Carr when she was 15 years old and frequented a roller skating rink where
Carr hung out.
Do you think John Mark Carr killed John Benet?
He has or had the capacity to do that.
The startling audio tapes aired on Inside Edition and other broadcasts of John Mark
Carr discussing the murder of John Benet Ramsey in 2001 have instigated a controversy and
it begins with a question for authorities.
What kind of investigation was done when those tapes of Carr were brought to their attention?
Paul Boyd reports.
I'm angry about this.
Well I'm angry about it too and everybody should be.
They're angry about the growing controversy surrounding John Mark Carr and the phone tape
recordings this California woman, Wendy Hutchins, made with him when he was living in this house
in Petaluma, California in 2001.
If police had potentially incriminating statements from Carr in the John Benet Ramsey case five
years ago, why didn't they act on them?
Here's one chilling excerpt obtained by ABC News.
Beautiful, lovely little girl that I would just love to have and do and do.
That's the thing that I almost want to apologize to her mother about is that, you know, I'm
sorry but I'm with your little girl right now and we're all moved and there's not a
damn thing you can do about it.
In 2001 Hutchins worked with police in Sonoma County, California as part of an investigation
of Carr on child pornography charges.
We talked for hours and he was drinking and he opened up and he started telling me about
what he was doing.
That's when Hutchins says Carr began talking about John Benet's murder.
Sonoma County investigators have declined to comment on Wendy Hutchins or whether they
followed up on Carr's comments about John Benet.
Sheriff Bill Cogbill does say, quote, I feel very comfortable that what we did was appropriate
and right.
Eventually the public will know that too.
Patience Van Zandt was Carr's public defender in 2001 on the child pornography charges and
told our Lisa Guerrero this about the Wendy Hutchins tapes.
Her information was not considered important enough by the district attorney's office in
Sonoma apparently for them to make anything out of it.
And we'll have more on the John Benet investigation later in the broadcast.
Tom Cruise is at the center of another big Hollywood breakup.
The Mission Impossible star has been given his walking papers by his movie studio Paramount
Pictures.
And apparently the falling out has to do with Cruise's controversial behavior.
April Woodard has the story.
It's a stunning move that's making headlines all over the country.
Paramount Pictures is ending its long relationship with Tom Cruise and making no bones about
the reasons why.
And an extraordinary interview with the Wall Street Journal, Paramount's chairman Sumner
Redstone revealed that the studio is fed up with Cruise's erratic behavior, saying, quote,
This recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount.
We don't think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue
should be on the lot.
It's unheard of, I think, in recent years to have a studio head or the CEO of a giant
company come out and say what I'm seeing in the tabloids, what this person has been doing
is inappropriate.
Redstone's public attack on Cruise comes after more than a year of controversies, including
Cruise's couch jumping on Oprah.
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And it's now infamous Today Show confrontation with Matt Lauer.
Matt, Matt, you don't even, you're glib.
The Paramount boss believes Cruise's antics and promotion of the Church of Scientology
broke the box office revenue of Mission Impossible 3.
That movie grossed 393 million, a lot less than Mission Impossible 2.
Cruise's production partner Paula Wagner hit back at Paramount, saying Redstone's comments
were quote, outrageous and undignified.
She says Cruise, who has been at Paramount for 14 years, was not fired, he quit, and
that they have already lined up a hundred million in financing to produce movies on
their own.
This is just the latest example of studios getting tough with troublesome stars.
Lindsay Lohan was publicly scolded by her boss at Morgan Creek Productions after he
said heavy partying caused her to miss work.
And in the wake of Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic rant, ABC canceled a project they were working
on with the star.
This is maybe pointing towards a new trend of the business end of Hollywood, saying to
the entertainment end of Hollywood, look, we're not going to put up with your shenanigans
anymore.
We'll be back with more Inside Edition in a moment.
Next, think America's obsessed with this case?
Look what's going on overseas.
John Benet-Remsey.
From Europe to Asia.
Suddenly, it's all about John Benet.
The global phenomenon.
Then, websites for teen models, where men pay to look at scantily clad girls.
Shorts as short as you can make them, I think something's wrong here.
See what Inside Edition uncovered.
You know on that website that there are older men drooling at you.
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Across the globe, the Jambonet-Ramsey case is once again captivating people.
In fact, the story of an arrest in the 10-year-old crime in Colorado has become a global obsession.
Les Trent reports.
Jambonet-Ramsey!
The Jambonet-Ramsey case and the arrest of John Mark Carr is not just an obsession here
in the United States.
The story is being covered all over the world.
From Germany, to Britain, and down under, Australians are closely following the case.
DNA evidence should reveal the truth.
Australia has an amazing fascination with the Jambonet-Ramsey murder.
Anna Koren is covering the story for Channel 7 Australia.
Before I was covering this story, I was in Israel covering the Middle East conflict.
I came back here and suddenly it's all about Jambonet.
It's a big story and all the Germans are very touched and fascinated at the same time.
Reporter Gisa Ebrow says just like here, her viewers in Germany are also wondering if the
murder of the little American beauty queen has truly been solved.
German is always fascinated in stories and crimes that are unsolved.
Little Jambonet's murder case is also spawning headlines on every continent, from the Chinese
World Journal to the Irish Times to this Turkish newspaper where it made the front page.
Incredibly, Jambonet-Ramsey has become the most looked up person on Yahoo.
Searches of her name increased 32,374% in the last couple of days.
And when we Googled Jambonet, our search turned up a staggering result, over 90 million hits.
It's clear this 10-year-old murder case is now taking center stage all over the world.
The arrest of John Marcar has put a spotlight on the sexual exploitation of children.
Our senior investigative correspondent, Matt Mehar, has been scrutinizing websites that
feature scantily clad underage girls, some as young as 10 years old, wearing next to
nothing.
The operators on these websites claim they're legitimate and legal modeling sites, but experts
tell us they are little more than havens for men who want to look at underage girls.
Models in barely-there bikinis and lingerie, playfully covered in mud, seductively leaning
over sports cars.
Sexy pictures and video on the internet, available for a fee.
But look at this model, and you'll notice something disturbing.
She's just 15 years old.
This one, only 13.
And these are the mild photos.
We won't show you the more explicit shots on these websites, featuring underage girls.
It just opened my eyes, and then I knew, I was like, I want to be a model.
These pictures of Elle Coley from Clearwater, Florida, were taken when she was just 17.
She posed for TrueTeenBabes.com, an internet site that charges subscribers $29.95 per month
to view pictures of young girls in provocative poses, girls who wear next to nothing.
This is the then high schooler posing, covered in mud.
You'd have a hard time convincing most men, looking at these pictures, that you're not
selling sex.
Honestly, I still don't feel that way.
I don't.
Many people, everybody looks at it differently.
The way I look at it, I'm not selling sex.
Elle says she signed up with TrueTeenBabes to launch a modeling career.
Amazingly, she says her parents, like the parents of most of the girls found on these
teen sites, signed a legal release.
Kids are being exploited.
A lot of parents are being tricked.
Perry Aftab is a lawyer and children's advocate.
She says while these sites claim to start modeling careers for young girls, the true
purpose is to provide erotic entertainment for older men.
Any site that asks 13-year-olds to pose in sexual ways is sexually exploiting them.
Teens on these sites can make up to $65 an hour for photo shoots, and many websites also
host live online chats with webcams, where customers can request provocative poses.
You know on that website that there are older men drooling at you.
Yeah.
Does that creep you out?
No.
I just feel like it's a part of life, and if people see the beauty in that, then that's
fine.
The website Elle was featured on was started by this man, James Grady.
Police raided his studio outside Denver and confiscated thousands of pictures and videos
of young girls.
Grady was charged with 39 counts, including the sexual exploitation of minors, but was
later acquitted on every single charge and went back into the business.
So how do these websites get away with it?
Usually they skirt the law by putting just enough clothing on the girls and by not having
them engage in any blatant sexual activity.
But just last month, Sheila Selinger, a mom from rural Indiana, was sentenced to 11 years
in prison for sending salacious pictures of her 10-year-old daughter to another website.
Prosecutors say she made thousands of dollars a week selling images of the young girl in
sexual poses.
Some parents are just greedy.
They don't care if the kids are at risk.
They don't care what happens next.
For 75 bucks an hour, a lot of parents are willing to sell off their kids.
None of the operators of these websites contacted by Inside Edition would agree to be interviewed
for this report.
Still to come, preparations are underway for this weekend's Emmy Awards, from the red carpet
rollout to the seating charts.
But we've learned that those fancy gift bags won't be exactly free this year.
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Did He Do It?
What the DNA results in the John Benet-Ramsey case will show and what they won't.
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The Primetime Emmy Awards are Sunday, and our Lisa Guerrero is in Los Angeles with a preview.
I'm here at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, where preparations are being made for the
58th Annual Emmy Awards, including selecting where all the stars will be seated.
As you can see, I've strategically placed myself right next to Patrick Dempsey, although
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Watch the next Inside Edition.
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We'll have more in the Dabane case tomorrow, see you then.