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Police: Suspect denies link to Ramsey
AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/16/06 | Sutin Wannabovorn - ap

Posted on 08/16/2006 8:45:44 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

BANGKOK, Thailand - An American suspect arrested in connection with the death of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey denied any connection to her murder when he was detained at his downtown Bangkok apartment Wednesday, police said.

The suspect was identified as John Mark Karr, according to Lt. Gen. Suwat Tumrongsiskul, who heads the country's immigration police. Karr denied involvement in the slayings, another police official said.

Karr's visa has been revoked because he was regarded as an "undesirable person" since he is accused of a crime in the United States, Suwat said.

Federal officials in the United States, speaking on condition of anonymity, also identified the suspect as Karr, a 42-year-old American, and said he was being held in Bangkok on unrelated sex charges.

But Thai police said he had not committed any crime in Thailand.

Suwat said he expected American officials to take the suspect back to the United States in the next few days.

The arrest was a surprise breakthrough in one of America's most lurid murder cases — a decade-old crime some feared would never be solved.

JonBenet was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colo., on Dec. 26, 1996.

"When we informed him that he has been accused of committing a crime at home he denied all accusations. It is normal for a suspect to deny the charges," said a senior police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The suspect, who has been in Thailand four times over the past two years, was being detained by immigration police pending arrival of U.S. officials, the police said.

Suwat said Thai police investigated the suspect and made the arrest at the request of U.S. officials.

The district attorney in Boulder, Mary Lacy, said the arrest followed several months of work. She would not disclose any details about the suspect, but the Ramsey family's attorney in Atlanta said the man was a schoolteacher who once lived in nearby Conyers, Ga.


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To: DakotaRed

Global Parcel Post should be fine!


81 posted on 08/16/2006 11:59:08 PM PDT by John Jamieson
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To: A CA Guy
CNN:When he was taken into custody he was told he was being charged with the first degree murder of JBR .... he responded no it was second degree, I didn't mean to kill her.

Karr is also suspected of a similar crime in Santa Rosa (county?) CA.
82 posted on 08/17/2006 1:06:52 AM PDT by John Jamieson
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To: John Jamieson

bttt


83 posted on 08/17/2006 1:09:21 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: al baby

Right!


84 posted on 08/17/2006 3:32:17 AM PDT by beyond the sea (The truth exists even when ignored.)
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To: NinoFan
They arrested him at his APARTMENT??? I thought he was in JAIL??

NEVER believe the first stories on this kind of stuff.

85 posted on 08/17/2006 5:06:18 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kaboom"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: umgud

AMEN!!


86 posted on 08/17/2006 5:08:00 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kaboom"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: BunnySlippers

Read on another thread that someone named Nathanial was a college student working at a friend of their son's house and that the guy's younger brother is named Nathanial. I didn't catch the name of the brother that was interviewed but the interview was weird.

Just read the full AOL story of this and the guy confessed. I am beginning to think there may have been two involved.

Was thinking about the amount of the ransom that has always bothered me. If he got the paper from a desk to write the note, he could have easily seen that John Ramsey had received this amount of bonus if his desk looks like mine. Someone could walk in my house, scan my desk and see a lot of info. I filed important papers away this morning!


87 posted on 08/17/2006 7:19:12 AM PDT by PhiKapMom
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To: PhiKapMom

I think this is a wild goose chase frankly. At least, at this point.


88 posted on 08/17/2006 7:53:05 AM PDT by BunnySlippers
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To: BunnySlippers

Cannot wait for the press conference. This whole deal has been bizarre from day one!


89 posted on 08/17/2006 8:05:37 AM PDT by PhiKapMom
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To: PhiKapMom; MinuteGal

Hope the news conference clears a few things up. In the film of him on FOX he looks TOO thin. Aids or having a sex change comes to mind.


90 posted on 08/17/2006 8:23:04 AM PDT by hoosiermama
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To: dhs12345

LOL. Yup.


91 posted on 08/17/2006 2:05:57 PM PDT by dhs12345
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