Admission by JonBenet-case suspect spurs questions

I just heard on the radio that JMK also says he picked JonBenet up at school, drugged her, and raped her (though I doubt he used the word "rape"). Needless to say, school was not in session due to the holiday, and it's implausible that no one in the family would have noticed her missing between the end of "school" and bedtime. The guy is either totally out of touch with reality or doing a heck of good job of faking same. I'm increasingly inclined to think thatJMK was arrested not because authorities think he did the deed, but because his knowledge of specific information that was never made public makes them want to know where he got it -- either from the actual killer (directly or indirectly), or from a LEO involved in the original investigation who leaked the info at some point for some reason.

"I'm increasingly inclined to think thatJMK was arrested not because authorities think he did the deed, but because his knowledge of specific information that was never made public makes them want to know where he got it"

There you go! That is the best reason I have heard since this all started!! It is obvious to me that this guy didn't kill Jonbenet but there has to a good reason why authorities would take the time to get this guy back here to the U.S.
CBS news tonight said that Karr knew some facts about the house that weren't make public such as details about a unique staircase and some other things. The authorities probably want to know who told him. Could have easily been the professor who has been emailing Karr for 4 years.
By the way that professor was a news reporter for a major network at the time of the murder.

I live in small town Iowa and a year ago a 6 year old girl was kidnapped,raped and murdered(no arrest has been made) only a mile from my home. Where is all the media attention for her?

The other reason they decided to grab him now was the obvious one. It had come to their attention some time ago (via the professor reporting the e-mail correspondence to authorities) that he was a US citizen living in a foreign country, with an outstanding warrant for failing to appear in court for something related to a prior child porn conviction he had. That plus his JonBenet-obsessed e-mail correspondence with the professor was enough to send some US investigators over to Bangkok to put him under surveillance, to see if perhaps any of his babblings about JonBenet had anything to do with real involvement in the murder, but with the guarantee that they'd at least bring home a child porn convict who had an outstanding warrant here. Then he started a new job as a second grade teacher, just one day before he was arrested. That was the trigger; no more surveillance. Neither the US nor Thai authorities wanted to responsible for any molestation incident that they could have prevented. And the Thai government certainly knew that US investigators were over there watching this guy, and whether or not they knew it had anything to do with JonBenet, they almost certainly knew it it was related to child sexual abuse and/or porn trafficking.

To be blunt, the US authorities announced their intention to bring him back to the US to face various charges here, barely ahead of an obviously forthcoming announcement from the Thai government that THEY were booting the guy out of Thailand and deporting him to the US. It wouldn't have looked good for the US to be the second announcer in this situation, when they'd obviously been aware of it due to their surveillance operation. Picture this sequence playing out in the news media -- Announcement #1, by Thai authorities: "We are booting out this weirdo American who has a prior child porn conviction, an outstanding warrant for same, who has just started a new job teaching young children here in Bangkok, and who US authorities have had under surveillance here for several weeks while he sought and obtained his latest job"; Announcement #2, by US authorities: "Uh, yes, okay, good idea, we were going to ask you to send him back anyway".

The next question is why they didn't bring him back quietly, without babbling to the press about any possible connection to the JonBenet case. That was probably considered, but even apart from the obvious propensity of the Thai authorities to babble to the media without restraint, they wouldn't have been able to keep JMK quiet for more than a few days tops, before his court-appointed lawyer would have insisted that he be allowed to speak to journalists, or to somebody else through whom word would quickly leak out. As obviously nuts as JMK is, any attorney would be doing his case a favor by making sure he advertised his nuttiness as widely as possible. In addition, the professor, and probably other known and/or unknown parties with whom JMK has been corresponding (the prof was probably not JMK's only e-mail pal, though he may have been the only sane and stable one) would likely have spilled the beans, whether intentionally or unintentionally. Either of those scenarios would have left the US authorities as second announcer again, looking as if they have no control over the investigation or indictment process.

I'll be way surprised if the DNA test turns up a solid match. It's not impossible, but I'll definitely be surprised.

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