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Yes. He didn't match the DNA on Jon Benet. The theory of the investigators is that he was 1/2 of a team that kidnapped Jon Benet. He had mentioned to friends, shortly before the kidnapping, that he had cooked up a scheme that would soon net him "about $50,000". Apparently the other party to the scheme was the one who raped Jon Benet...and he shot Helgoth to keep him quiet. Helgoth's death was investigated as a suicide by the bumblers at Boulder PD, but it obviously was a murder....Helgoth was right-handed, but he was shot into the left side of his torso, and a pillow was used to muffle the sound of the shot. Who commits suicide using a pillow to muffle the shot? And, the crime scene photo shows the pistol laying on the right side of Helgoth, who was reclining on a bed or futon. Helgoth owned several stun guns, and a stun gun was used to immobilize Jon Benet. Also, he had said to friends of his, "I wonder what it would feel like to crush a human skull?" Jon Benet's skull was fractured by a blow to the head. He was a violent man who killed kittens for fun, by breaking their necks.

flash back...

http://www.longmontfyi.com/ramsey/storyDetail03.asp?ID=26

Carnes notes in her ruling that one man named in the Ramseys’ book, Michael Helgoth, committed suicide two months after the murder and one day after District Attorney Alex Hunter announced they were narrowing the search for JonBenet’s killer.

A stun gun was found near Mr. Helgoth’s body, as well as “HI-TEC” boots. Evidence in the case suggests that JonBenet’s killer used a stun gun on her. Unidentified shoeprints from HI-TEC boots also were found in the Ramseys’ basement.

Helgoth was right-handed, but he was shot into the left side of his torso, and a pillow was used to muffle the sound of the shot. Who commits suicide using a pillow to muffle the shot? And, the crime scene photo shows the pistol laying on the right side of Helgoth, who was reclining on a bed or futon.

Helgoth mayhave been part of it -- very plausible scenario on your part.

However, he also could have committed suicide just as you describe it. Follow:
Hold a pillow to your left side/Chest, Reach across with your right hand as if holding a gun, simulate a shot.
Your right hand is not braced, as such when the gun is fired the bullet will enter right where you aim (Peircing your heart or vital organs - either way you have killed yourself successfully) -- now the recoil of the gun is unimpeded as your right hand/arm is not braced as it would on a normal shot -- The gun will recoil straight at the angle you are holding it, with your right hand across your body it will fly back and right, you have just shot yourself in the chest, your body will go straight back, you will open your grip from the shock to your body
At this point physics take over. You right arm will land either across your abdomen or fly to the right side of your body, the gun which is now heading back and to your right and no longer held will land at your RIGHT SIDE most likely between your shoulder and hip.

CU prof pushes idea that intruder killed 6-year-old in Boulder

By Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News
June 15, 2004

A new documentary on the JonBenet Ramsey case airing today in Great Britain, produced by a University of Colorado journalism professor, advances a theory that JonBenet was killed by an intruder who committed suicide soon afterward.

The documentary, co-produced by CU's Michael Tracey and titled Who Killed the Pageant Queen?, focuses on Michael Helgoth as a prime suspect in JonBenet's murder. It also suggests he might have been helped in the crime by a second, unidentified person, who is still at large.

It is not known when, or if, the piece will be aired in this country.

Helgoth, 26, fatally shot himself in his Boulder residence Feb. 14, 1997, one day after then-Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter said in a televised news conference that investigators were narrowing their list of suspects.

"We will see that justice is served and that you will pay for what you've done to this beautiful little girl," Hunter said that day.

Helgoth was brought to authorities' attention by Colorado Springs private investigator Ollie Gray and former El Paso County sheriff's homicide Detective Lou Smit.

Tracey's one-hour documentary is airing on ITV1, Great Britain's largest commercial network.

The documentary reports that Helgoth owned a stun gun. Smit, who worked on the case for Hunter, and then later on his own, said he believes a stun gun was used the Christmas night murder in 1996.

Also, Helgoth had owned a pair of Hi-Tec boots. That is potentially significant because police found a print made by such a shoe near the spot in the basement of the Ramseys' Boulder home where 6-year-old JonBenet's body was found.

"I think that Helgoth still needs to be investigated," Gray said. "His associates need to be investigated, and I think his death needs to be investigated."

"We did investigate Helgoth," said Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner. "And all I can tell you is that there was no DNA match.

"And we looked at a pair of (Helgoth's) boots that had been turned in by the Ramseys' private detectives, and they were compared and didn't match. We didn't have anything further to go on."

Tracey writes a media criticism column for the Rocky Mountain News. He is currently traveling and could not be reached for comment Monday.

I don't have the original link - but here is where I found it posted on.

http://www.forumsforjustice.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-5280

Did Karr know Helgoth?