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Ex-officer going to prison for sex crimes admits killing AJ boy

Brent Whiting
The Arizona Republic
Aug. 6, 2005 12:00 AM

As Kraig Robert Clark was preparing to be sent to prison on sex charges, the former Tempe police officer dropped a bombshell: He admitted the murder and dismemberment of a 13-year-old Apache Junction boy, according to Surprise police reports released Friday.

Clark, who turns 39 on Monday, apparently wanted to get the slaying off his chest after he was found guilty May 31 of multiple sex crimes involving other boys.

During a voluntary interview with authorities, Clark confessed to strangling Jamie Jarosik on Feb. 19, 2004, after engaging in sexual acts with the boy at Clark's apartment in Surprise, police said.

Clark also confessed to purchasing an electric saw,which was used to dismember the boy in a shower and put the parts in plastic bags. The parts were placed in a refrigerator and a large plastic cooler with wheels while Clark scouted for a place in the desert to get rid of the body.

Later, he drove the body parts to 219th Avenue, north of the Sun Valley Parkway, where he burned the remains with pallets before burying them.

Clark and his lawyer, Daniel Patterson, a deputy Maricopa County public defender, made the confession on June 29.

Two weeks later, Clark pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the death and was sentenced to life in prison, officers said. Clark also was sentenced to in 162 years in prison on more than a dozen sex crimes, according to Superior Court records.

During the sex-crimes investigations, Jarosik's name came up, but nothing could be established about what happened to the boy, who police described as a runaway.

After the confession, Clark took investigators to the area where he buried the remains in a failed attempt to find them, said Officer Marci Darrow, a Surprise police spokeswoman.

"There has been so much rain and new vegetation that he couldn't find the right spot," Darrow said. "Even cadaver dogs haven't been able to discover the right spot."

Two days before Clark pleaded guilty, police went to the Apache Junction home of Michael Jarosik, the father, to inform him about Clark's confession.

Neither Jarosik nor Patterson, Clark's attorney, could be reached Friday for comment about the case.

In their report, police said Clark was a pizza deliveryman when Jamie Jarosik was killed, but has previous employment as a police officer.

He was a Tempe officer from May 1987 through July 1991 and a Mohave County sheriff's deputy from August 1991 to September 1992.

Clark resigned from the Tempe job amid allegations of sexual contact with a boy, but Maricopa County prosecutors declined to file charges, Surprise police said.

Police said Clark lost the Mohave County job after the 14-year-old son of another deputy accused Clark of molestation.

A Mohave County grand jury indicted Clark on 10 counts of child molestation, but prosecutors dropped the case after the boy was killed in an accident.

Prosecutors struck a deal in which they dismissed the case in return for Clark's surrender of his Arizona peace-officer license, thus barring him from getting another job as a police officer.

Clark later obtained employment with a civilian contractor as a security guard at Luke Air Force Base, police said.

Reach the reporter at (602) 444-6937.

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Ex-cop admits slaying A.J. boy, 13
By Kristina Davis, Tribune
August 6, 2005
A former Tempe police officer, just convicted on several molestation charges, admitted to the brutal slaying of an Apache Junction boy he molested who has been missing since last year, Surprise police said Friday.

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Kraig Clark pleaded guilty July 15 to strangling and then dismembering 13-year-old Jamie Jarosik in February 2004 after the teen ran away from home, according to police records.

The admission comes as part of a plea agreement after Clark was found guilty of molesting and having sex with several boys during the year. The agreement called for Clark to show investigators where the teen’s remains were buried.

Clark told detectives that Jarosik ran away from home on Feb. 2, 2004, and came to stay with Clark at his Surprise apartment. Clark said he had molested Jarosik several times in the past.

After a few weeks, Jarosik left Clark’s apartment to stay somewhere else, but then called Clark begging to come back to the apartment, according to the report. Clark told police that Jarosik even threatened to go to police about their sexual relationship if he couldn’t come back.

Clark said he strangled Jarosik on the morning of Feb. 19 as the two were lying in bed together, the report said.

He then bought a reciprocating saw and extra blades at Wal-Mart later that morning and dismembered the teen’s body in the shower, the report stated.

Afterward, he cleaned the saw, replaced the original blade, and returned it to Wal-Mart.

Clark burned the body parts in a desert area near 219th Avenue and Sun Valley Parkway that night and buried the ashes, the report stated. He showed investigators the desert area on July 6, but there were no signs of the remains.

Clark was sentenced to life in prison on the molestation charges.

Contact Kristina Davis by email, or phone (480)-898-6446

Geez!
What's the point of being a cop if you can't molest and butcher a young boy from time to time?

Don't forget that Tempe Police run over people at Bus Stops,run over Bicyclists,can't solve the murder of that woman found dead in trash barrel years ago,goofed the investigation of that dead woman between Tempe & Tucson,and how can we forget the Tempe police ticketing those Patriot Bicyclists just for that evening ride.

News Alert:A under cover Tempe Cop car was stolen,because of the dumbest reason,the cop left the vechicle running(ie polluting our air) unattendend and the thief just got in and stole it.

IQ level must be pretty low with people in the Valley that leave their vechicles idling and not in it,which is why Arizona is # 1 in vechicle thiefs.

A law will be passed next Session that ANY law enforcement official in Arizona MUST have a IQ rating of at least 150 !!

It must have been the boy's fault.

the tempe cop car was stolen from an address in the 3600 block of east clarendon in phoenix.

i used to ride my bike everyday down that street for about three years. and lo and behold just east of 36th street in the 3600 block of east clarendon on the north side of the street there was a house that always had several unmarked cop cars parked in front of it. at the time i thought it was a guy who ran a rent a cop service.

now after a unmarked tempe police cop car was stolen from an address in the 3600 block of east clarendon i think that it is the home of tempe police commander thomas long.

if it is the home of tempe police commander thomas long and every day he had serveral unmarked police cars parked in front of his home i suspect that he was either committing some crimes or ripping the taxpayers by taking all those unmarked tempe police cars home.

this is the article that was published in todays east valley tribune

East Valley Tribune
Aug 8, 2005

Tempe cop’s car stolen in Phoenix

A Tempe police commander’s unmarked vehicle with the keys inside was stolen Saturday night.

Cmdr. Thomas Long’s gold 1998 Chevy Lumina had a SWAT uniform, police ID card, gun and ballistics plates that go inside a bulletproof vest when it was stolen in the 3600 block of East Clarendon Street in Phoenix, according to a police report.

Tempe police could not be reached for comment, and Phoenix Police had no further information.

Tribune writer Katie McDevitt complied this report. (480)898-6334

What's the Truth?
by looking 4 the TruthSeeker Monday, Aug. 08, 2005 at 3:37 PM

You say tempe police commander thomas long lives in Phoenix,but then he is a Tempe employee. What's the Truth? He live in Tempe or Phoenix? If he does not live in Tempe,I don't blame him.

is this the boy who attended sunnyslope high school? oh my god! please let me know if this is. Thank you. he had brother kurt clark, an excellent wrestler during his time..two sisters, christy and an older sister...a very private family? ....i hate hearing this as i know this was him. thank you for letting me know.

I can't beleive that somebody would be so cold and calous to make a comment as the one made by GEEZ.
This boy was somebodys child, he had a mom, dad, aunts, uncles. These people were very saddened by his death, and very distrubed to find out how he died.

NOBODY deserves that, and you should not write such CRAP.

OK so he was a good friend of mine
try being me.

Pigs is pigs

If it were a requirement for cops to have an IQ of 150, there would be maybe ten cops in the whole of these United States of Vespucciland!

The requisite personality disorders for becoming a professional in the field of law enforcement tend to disappear in persons whose IQ(s) exceed 80 to 85.

As sad as it is that such heinous crimes against children, in particular, are so widespread, it is becoming clearer every day that the majority of the perpetrators of these crimes are the very class of people entrusted with "Public Safety."

The recent NBC series “To Catch A Predator” opened the eyes of America to the predilection of those in positions of nominal authority to prey upon the innocent; a Rabi, priests and ministers, several agents of the department of Homeland Security and cops by the dozens were caught attempting to have sex with minors they had contacted over the internet.

America was prompted to ask en masse ‘what can we do to protect our children online?’

It seems like a big step in the right direction would be to prohibit law enforcement (pigs) from accessing the world wide web!

Poorly educated punks with big, shiny badges and state-issued 9mm pistols larger than their own genitalia are enough of a menace for the F.B.I. itself to have placed police misconduct cases in their own top ten priorities.

My own website, Bob God dot-com contains dozens of links to information on what YOU can do about police misconduct - without having to wait until the buggered dead body of a child shows up in a dumpster near your home!

If you’re more concerned with being abused by a local cop or being railroaded or steam-rollered by the local legal system than you are about some suicide-Jawa fragging the next senior prom of your alma matter, PLEASE get active in cleaning up America’s pig problem!

Thanks 1,000,000! BG

My own website, Bob God dot-com contains dozens of links to information on what YOU can do about police misconduct - without having to wait until the buggered dead body of a child shows up in a dumpster near your home!Do you have anything concerning the lowlife scum Unbathed indymedia cockroaches? After all, they promote violence and homosexuality. nessie is an editor of the SF indy, and he's aligned with NAMBLA.You Unbathed freaks who throw back your heads in semen gargling unison and shout "homophobia" every other syllable ought to think twice about what you're doing here. I don't think you cockroaches can handle the conflict of cop hating and Pervert loving.

You mean *this* just wondering?

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2004/07/1698659.php

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just wondering

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Jamie was a really good friend of mine. i grew up with him. i also grew up with megan who posted here too.
i really miss jamie.
i can't believe what happened...
RIP Jamie
you will always be loved and remembered...
<3<3<3<3

I can't believe this happened to a really good friend of mine. I knew him from middle school and use to date him. I also believe that Clark should not be put in prision, I think they should make him go to the front of the line and put him the death chair. Better yet, have him suffer worse than Jamie had to go through. This makes me sick to my stomach, I can't believe he is gone, I wish he was still here with all of his friends. And IT WASN'T JAMIES FAULT (to the guy who said that), you don't know Jamie or his family. It was that stupid ex cops fault. It is so sad that we all can't even trust cops now a days.
Rest in Peace Jamie Jarosik.....we all love and miss you!
You are in a better place and God is there to protect you.
Love,
Alisia, Nathan, and Juliana

What a disgusting title for this article. I am Jamie's sister and you have no idea how pissed off that I am. First, my brother was NOT gay. He was molested, raped, murdered, dismembered, burned, and then buried. And after all of that his name gets dragged through the mud by the media. Why does his sexual preference have anything to do with this? You make it seem like this happened because he was "gay." This happened because the state of Arizona failed to put a child molester behind bars. This happened because a 13 year old boy trusted his coach. Yes Craig Klark was a coach and at one time a police officer in the state of Arizona. I suggest unless you know what you are talking about you should not jump on the "band wagon" so you can be one of the first to sell a newspaper. Maybe you should wait and check your facts and print the truth so people know what to be afraid of and who. Print what people should be watching out for so it doesn't happen to their children instead of taking the little a family has left and making it even more unbearable. (if that is even possible) We love and miss you Jamie.

This article title makes my uncle's murder seem like a joke. I may have been 9 when he was murdered and I knew that he was not his gay lover. And if anyone wants to know Jamie was not gay he was an awesome uncle and did not diserve the things that happened to him.And the term "sliced and diced" was not the appropriate term to use for this situation. And anyone who reads this article may have thoughts of Jamie that are not true.
Bryce