Karr cleared in JonBenet Ramsey case

MSNBC & AP ^ | August 28, 2006

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Karr cleared in JonBenet Ramsey case DNA of suspect in murder no match, but he faces child porn charges in Calif.

• Reports: Karr's DNA doesn't match Aug. 28: MSNBC-TV's Susan Filan and Alison Stewart talk about a report that says John Mark Karr's DNA does not match the DNA found at the JonBenet Ramsey crime scene. The Most BREAKING NEWS

Updated: 18 minutes ago BOULDER, Colo. - Prosecutors abruptly dropped their case against John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey on Monday, saying DNA tests failed to put him at the crime scene despite his repeated insistence he killed the 6-year-old beauty queen.

The move came just a week and a half after the 41-year-old schoolteacher was arrested in Thailand and put on a plane to the U.S. in what was regarded as a remarkable break in the decade-old murder mystery that had cast suspicion on JonBenet's parents.

Karr, 41, will be held in custody by the Boulder County sheriff's office pending extradition to Sonoma County, Calif., to face child pornography charges dating to 2001. Earlier in the day, the sheriff's department announced Karr had been released.

[skaterboy]

Worst kept secret in America..The guy is a nutjob who wanted fame and his jollies

[proxy_user]

Tabloid and cable TV stocks fall sharply in active trading?

[gaijin]

Wow! That was one mighty expensive airplane ticket..!

[stopem]

And a free ride back to the states.
He is a danger to society and needs to be kept locked up.

[greccogirl]

I knew it all along. What a joke.

[greccogirl]

I agree, but he didn't kill Jon Benet.

[colorado tanker]

That was one mighty expensive airplane ticket..!

Well, it did include champagne and gourmet meals . . . .

[ValerieUSA]

well, duh

the perv just wants to be a little girl -- he did not kill one

now he is out of thailand where the justice system would have dealt with him for sex crimes against their children....

can we please never again hear or read the ridiculous title "six year old beauty queen"??? arrghh

[Argus]

Isn't making a false confession a crime? It's obstruction of justice.

[Semi Civil Servant]

Once again, the liberal law enforcement establishment in the People's Republic of Boulder struts its incompetent stuff.

[proudofthesouth]

We haven't heard the last of him.........

[ET(end tyranny)]

Isn't making a false confession a crime?

I was wondering about that, too.

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The confession was false, but its content was true. -- Dan Rather

[ladyinred]

Of course he was cleared. This whole thing has been a joke from the beginning. Apparently the manufacturing of garments allows for DNA from the people making them to be deposited on the items. At least I just read that. That may be the source of the 'strange" DNA in JonBenets underwear.

[colorado tanker]

He never made a confession. In Thailand he told the media he was "with" JonBenet when she died, whatever that may mean. Most of the MSM initial reporting was wrong.

[lawnguy]

Didn't that prosecutor out there sound just a little too cocky when she announced the arrest?

This story kind of took on a Dan Rather fraud feel real quick.

Maybe the Duke Lacrosse preview?

[greccogirl]

They have also dropped the charges against him in California so he walks a free man...............

[greccogirl]

What sex crimes in thailand? He didn't do any sex crimes in Thailand. Plus they've dropped the charges against him in California so he's a free man.

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The Duke case is another joke.