Posted on 08/16/2006 11:53:09 PM PDT by Lurker
BANGKOK, Thailand - Thai police said Thursday that a 41-year-old American man has admitted to the killing a decade ago of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey in the United States.
Lt. Gen. Suwat Tumrongsiskul, head of Thailand's immigration police, told The Associated Press that John Mark Karr confessed to the killing after his arrest Wednesday at a downtown Bangkok apartment.
"He told police while under arrest that he did kill the girl but so far he has not pleaded guilty in writing. This is needed as official evidence," Suwat said.
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I would want to know if there really was a DNA match. Someone obsessing about the story could easily inject themselves into it.
Read in a news story on by other posters? I have yet to see a news story that says there was a DNA match.
But...
Isn't Thailand notorious for child sex?
No, but I'd be glad to help.
How you doing these days?
Life has never been better. I'm in love with a beautiful woman, I have a great job.... but that's just circumstances, and those can change. More importantly, I'm grateful and serene, and really getting into my spirituality.
I crack wise on FR, of course -- that's performance art. Life itself is a joy and a blessing.
Back to the topic: I am very sad that JonBenet will not get a chance to experience ths joy and the blessing that life is.
This guys going to be really, really, popular in the Joint.
I give him a year.
L
This case has been heartbreaking from the start. I don't know whether to cry or rage. It's a real pity that Mrs. Ramsey didn't live long enough to see her name cleared and a perp caught.
I'm glad you're well. I was a bit concerned about you for a while there.
Take care my friend.
L
My morning talk show guy postulated that the confession was a way to get out of that Thai jail and back to the United States.
I'm not sure how you beat and strangle someone by accident. (But then, I'm just a girl.)
The DNA will be the decisive factor in this case...as far as the news reports are concerned, this cesspect is still over in Thailand and will not arrive in the U.S. until this weekend....hadn't heard that a DNA had been extracted from this creep...and connected to this case...media has to be very, very cautious....I feel they're jumping to conclusions way too fast.....they need to wait until ALL the facts are gathered and confirmed before they start showing up in front of a camera with the latest "Breaking News."
Is this the reason the Ramseys alerted the police about this guy? Not that they knew him personally but that he had contacted the grandparents.
Let me take a wild guess here........Teacher.......gay......Thialand visits.....just a hunch. HE's LIBERAL?
I don't know, hopefully we will found out how the connection came about.
more news....
Karr a globe-trotting teacher in resumes
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/world/15295015.htm
BURT HERMAN
Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea - The American school teacher arrested for the killing of JonBenet Ramsey apparently claimed to have a globe-trotting history of teaching assignments in online resumes he purportedly posted to seek work abroad giving English lessons.
The resumes of a John Karr are posted on at least two Web sites based in South Korea and Los Angeles. They appear with the picture of a man who strongly resembles 41-year-old John Mark Karr, who appeared before reporters Thursday in Thailand a day after his arrest.
Karr admitted he was with JonBenet when she died in 1996 and claimed it was an accident, a breakthrough in a case that many thought would never be solved.
The resumes suggested Karr traveled the globe teaching as a private tutor and at schools in Europe, Asia and Central America the past several years, though none of the positions the resumes claim he held could be immediately verified.
One English-language institute where Karr's resume was posted removed it from its Web site Thursday in response to a reporter's query, citing concerns about bad publicity.
The Seoul-based GnB English institute said it never employed Karr and that the Web page on which he posted his resume was open for postings by anyone looking for teaching jobs.
"We have never even interviewed him," said Um Dae-jin, an official at GnB in Seoul.
The resume was posted June 22, 2005, and has a photo of Karr in a blue and yellow sweater crouching down at a table next to a young girl.
The posting says Karr worked in Seoul as an English teacher for children ages 6-12 and that duties included "conducting classes as the sole teacher in the classroom, making assignments and issuing grades."
No school name was given, and South Korean immigration officials declined to confirm if Karr had ever entered the country.
According to the site, Karr also worked as a volunteer English teacher at a school in Heemstede, Netherlands.
The resume also claims Karr was employed "in some of the most prestigious schools in the United States, working with children from high-profile families" between 1996 - the year JonBenet was killed - and 2001.
At a Los Angeles-based Web site for recruiting English teachers to serve abroad, a resume with Karr's name on it features the same photo as the Korean site and similar wording. No date of the posting is given, and the company running the site couldn't be immediately reached for comment.
The resume says Karr was in Asia from 2001-02 and lists additional teaching work from 2004-05 in Honduras. It also says Karr taught English to executives in Costa Rica.
The posting also says Karr worked as a private teacher and caregiver in Germany and the Netherlands, apparently for three families with young children from 2002-03.
The posting doesn't name the German cities where he worked but later mentions Munich and Stuttgart as places he had visited. Prosecutors in both of those cities said Thursday that they had no record of any investigation involving Karr.
The posting also boasts of travels to many other cities, including London; Paris; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Zurich, Switzerland; Milan, Italy; Osaka, Japan; Seoul, South Korea; Sydney, Australia; Singapore; Taipei, Taiwan; and Istanbul, Turkey.
In addition to teaching, the resume says Karr can play several unspecified musical instruments, that he writes poetry and also has acting ability.
From 1981-96, the resume says Karr ran a private rental business and restored Victorian mansions.
found = find
Travel takes money. Where's the guy getting his money? Is he also a male prostitute? Sounds terrible but....
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/world/15294999.htm
Suspect claims Ramsey's death accidental
~ SNIP ~
"I was with JonBenet when she died," Karr told reporters afterward, visibly nervous and stuttering as he spoke. "Her death was an accident."
Asked if he was innocent of the crime, Karr said: "No."
Later, as he was escorted to his guesthouse to pick up his belongings, he told the AP: "I am so very sorry for what happened to JonBenet. It's very important for me that everyone knows that I love her very much, that her death was unintentional, that it was an accident."
Asked what happened when JonBenet died, he said: "It would take several hours to describe that. It's a very involved series of events that would involve a lot of time. It's very painful for me to talk about it."
Karr also told the AP he contacted JonBenet's mother, Patsy Ramsey, before her death in June and that he wrote her letters about "many things." He said he hoped that she received the letters.
~SNIP~
The police were fixated on the parents, particularly the mother. The former DA in the case publicly admitted as such, critisizing the police for being blind to any evidence and ever covering up evidence that pointed to an outside perp.
The mother died last year of cancer. Too bad she isn't still alive to be vindicated, but died knowing the world thought her guilty of killing her daughter.
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I"m sure she'll tell the truth now.....
Well, the cynic in me is coming out this morning. He talks as though there were other people there besides him. And he had to know one of the parents well to write that weird ransom note.
FWIW, Mark Klauss is saying he still thinks the parents were involved ... so I am told.
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