Karr’s Kill Cult: Virtual Cults and Pseudo-Killing in the Digital Age
Most readers will recall the 1996 tragedy in which six-year-old beauty-pageant princess JonBenét Ramsey was found bound, gagged, and strangled in the basement of her parents’ home, inciting an orgy of media coverage. What readers may not know is that John Mark Karr—the imminently creepy individual w...
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New York City College of Technology
2012-03-01
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| description | Most readers will recall the 1996 tragedy in which six-year-old beauty-pageant princess JonBenét Ramsey was found bound, gagged, and strangled in the basement of her parents’ home, inciting an orgy of media coverage. What readers may not know is that John Mark Karr—the imminently creepy individual who falsely confessed to the killing, and whose sordid past includes an arrest for possession of child pornography—has continued to make news as an alleged cyberstalker and would-be cult leader. This article claims that whereas a real serial killer is compelled to murder again and again with different victims, Karr is compelled to repeat the singular murder of JonBenét Ramsey the only way he can—in a virtual reality constituted by writing. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3bc83b6db3ce4c35bd41ded1384ea2ee2025-08-19T20:06:42ZengNew York City College of TechnologyNANO2160-01042012-03-012Karr’s Kill Cult: Virtual Cults and Pseudo-Killing in the Digital AgeJeremy Biles0Brian Collins1School of the Art Institute of ChicagoNorth Carolina State UniversityMost readers will recall the 1996 tragedy in which six-year-old beauty-pageant princess JonBenét Ramsey was found bound, gagged, and strangled in the basement of her parents’ home, inciting an orgy of media coverage. What readers may not know is that John Mark Karr—the imminently creepy individual who falsely confessed to the killing, and whose sordid past includes an arrest for possession of child pornography—has continued to make news as an alleged cyberstalker and would-be cult leader. This article claims that whereas a real serial killer is compelled to murder again and again with different victims, Karr is compelled to repeat the singular murder of JonBenét Ramsey the only way he can—in a virtual reality constituted by writing.http://www.nanocrit.com/issues/issue-2-mystery-unknown-surprise-all/karrs-kill-cult-virtual-cults-and-pseudo-killing-digital-ageJohn Mark KarrJonBenét Ramseyvirtual realitycyberstalkervirtual cults |
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| title | Karr’s Kill Cult: Virtual Cults and Pseudo-Killing in the Digital Age |
| title_full | Karr’s Kill Cult: Virtual Cults and Pseudo-Killing in the Digital Age |
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| topic | John Mark Karr JonBenét Ramsey virtual reality cyberstalker virtual cults |
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