Police are Again investigating John...remember him/her

Getty ImagesPolice are again investigating John Mark Karr, who falsely confessed to killing JonBenet Ramsey. Diane Dimond on a trail of death threats, gender switches—and a cult called "The Immaculates."

The photograph on Washington State's driver's license features a woman with short dark hair, stylishly feathered around her face. Her makeup appears professionally applied over smooth, soft skin. Her bangs tickle the tops of her thin horned-rimmed prescription glasses, her earlobes sparkle with a small pair of sparkly studs.

The license is issued to Delia Alexis Reich, the female identity, officially approved by a Seattle court in December 2008, of a man, I have learned, known to the world as John Mark Karr, infamous for confessing—falsely—to killing little beauty-pageant contestant JonBenet Ramsey. Karr dropped out of sight in 2006, after briefly dominating national headlines, but the former elementary-school teacher's dark, dangerous behavior has apparently continued, even as police and federal agents overlooked ominous, predatory warning signs.

“If you cost me my little girls I will hunt you down and kill you.”

The Daily Beast has spent several weeks tracking Reich, scouring through emails she recently sent to a host of people, including this reporter, as well as court and police records and disturbing audiotapes and Skype conversations. Among the revelations:

• One former "fiancée" says that as recently as two months ago, she enlisted her to recruit girls 6 years old or under, preferably brunette, for a sex cult she called "The Immaculates."

• A police probe of Karr was more expansive than originally thought—a 2001 child-porn case against him was dropped after Karr's computer was thrown out by authorities—involving molestation suspicions, four states and the FBI.

• Karr's first wife told police that she married him when she was 13, and was forced into a series of dangerous, degrading sex acts.

• Karr maintained a correspondence with the killer of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, Richard Allen Davis.

• Reich continues to maintain that she killed JonBenet Ramsey.

• At least two police departments—in San Francisco and Seattle—are investigating Reich.

The Daily Beast made repeated attempts to communicate with Reich. On May 17, she was informed, via her private email address, that her ex-fiancée has accused her of encouraging others to recruit a cult of young girls for sex, and threatening her life, sharing emails to back up her story.

At 4:53 p.m., Reich responded, "Do you make a difference in the lives of children with your research or do you only blast pedophiles and talk the rhetoric of the severe punishment they deserve? Aren't the children the matter at hand and not the pedophiles? Do you consider me a pedophile?