There's a new twist in the already twisted 1996 murder investigation of JonBenet Ramsey — not only did a grand jury vote to indict her parents for child abuse resulting in the six-year-old's death, but the District Attorney in charge of the case ignored their finding and declined to prosecute.

Colorado police are conducting a new round of interviews in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case.

A 19-year-old girl is working the media circuit claiming that Jon Benet murder suspect John Mark Karr had a sex change operation and now leads a sex cult dedicated to diddling five-year-old girls called "The Immaculates."

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JonBenet Ramsey may not have been beaten to death by John Mark Karr, but the John Mark Karr story has certainly been beaten to death by us.

Like so many of you, we're still absorbing the news that an obvious nutbag with delusions of kiddie-killing grandeur may not have been ultimately reliable. However, we've received a cartoon from our good friend Jim Behrle, which sort of cushions the blow. And if you think about it, we've still got this case to kick around for another couple years at minimum. We prefer to see the glass as half-full of the blood of an innocent child whose shocking rape/murder raised issues of class, privilege, and exploitation that America briefly considered and then forgot about because, you know, there was a new "X Files" on. Anyway, here's the cartoon:

God damn it. You go to the trouble of actually doing your research, you say all the right things, and you still can't get put in jail for pedophilia. It's like, what do you have to do, actually fuck kids?

"The waiting. Oftentimes, it's the hardest thing a journalist endures." Well, except for maybe getting kidnapped by masked gunmen, but that doesn't stop NBC producer Gene Choo from blogging all gritty and tortured — well, maybe "tortured" is too strong a word — while sitting around in Boulder on the JonBenet Ramsey beat: