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When did John Ramsey move to Bangkok?
Just saw on the Drudge Report that a man has been arrested in Bangkok, Thailand for the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey.
The article said the man had confessed to elements of the crime that were unknown to the public.
There was a TV show on the other day about the murder and I remarked to my daughter that I didn't think the crime would ever be solved. Hopefully, I am wrong!
When did John Ramsey move to Bangkok?
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Drudge reports, hmmmmmm......
Hopefully justice will prevail.
The story came from the Rocky Mountain News and it is also being reported on msn.com.Drudge reports, hmmmmmm......
You do know don't you that Drudge doesn't make up stories - they just link to the news sources.
CNN) -- Authorities have arrested a possible suspect in the decade-old JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation, law enforcement sources told CNN on Wednesday. An investigator with the Boulder County, Colorado, District Attorney's office is bringing the man from Bangkok, Thailand, CNN affiliate KUSA reported.
Sources told CBS News that he is a 41-year-old American and second-grade teacher.
Two law enforcement sources told CNN the man was under investigation for an unrelated sex crime when information led to his arrest in the Ramsey case.
"It is our hope that this arrest will bring some closure to the Ramsey family after a ten-year ordeal." said the family's attorney, Hal Haddon. "We respect the legal process and will have no further comment about the case or the evidence until that process is concluded."
JonBenet's father, John Ramsey, told 9NEWS in Denver that he has been notified of the arrest. Asked if he knew the suspect, Ramsey replied, "to the best of my knowledge, no," the station's Web site reported.
Prosecutors in Boulder have not confirmed the person's iden y but are expected to hold a news conference Thursday.
KUSA reported that a man they call a suspect was arrested Wednesday morning and has confessed to certain elements of the crime that are unknown to the general public, KUSA reported.
JonBenet's beaten and strangled body was found in the basement of the family home in Boulder, Colorado, the day after Christmas in 1996. She was 6.
A grand jury investigation into the death of the child beauty pageant winner ended without charges in 1999.
The investigation focused a spotlight on the child's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey. Patsy Ramsey died in June of ovarian cancer. She was 49.
The Ramseys said an intruder committed the crime, but they remained the subject of su ion and speculation.
In 2003 a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against the Ramseys, blaming the police and the FBI for bungling the investigation. The Boulder County District Attorney's Office concurred with the judge's opinion the following month, saying there was little evidence against the couple
The Ramseys left Colorado and had a house in Charlevoix, Michigan, where John Ramsey unsuccessfully ran for office in 2004, and in Atlanta, Georgia.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08/16/ra...est/index.html
If this is correct, it's very scary - how many other little children did he molest?!Sources told CBS News that he is a 41-year-old American and second-grade teacher.I think it's quite telling that he was in Bangkok - that place is notorious for the child sex trade!
Bull . I still say her ing parents did it.
Holy . If this man is the guilty party I think the Ramseys deserve one of the HUGEST apologies EVER given in the history of American public opinion, and the media.
I think there would be a lawsuit. They dont want an apology, $$.
I wonder if this suspect was in Bangkok because of the child sex stuff over there?
If it is true, I hope they give him the death sentence.
Anybody who kills a child does not deserve to live.
Unless they were complicit in the crime. There's been allegations they were involved in some weird there in Colorado.
Ramsey Suspect's Bay Area Ties Taught In Petaluma School District
ABC Local41-year-old John Karr and his then-wife, Laura, once lived in Petaluma. She told us they were married back in 1989 and lived in Alabama until the year 2000 when they moved to Petaluma.
In the year 2001, Karr was charged with five counts of possessing child pornography. His teaching credential in Petaluma was suspended, then revoked for violating the education code.
He is still wanted in California. A warrant is still out for his arrest for failure to appear on those charges.
Laura Karr filed for divorce after her husband was charged in 2001. She says her husband did a lot of research on the JonBenet Ramsey case and also on Petaluma's own Polly Klaas.
The plot thickens...
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Laura Karr also tells us she's devastated and embarrassed by these murder charges, but she does not believe that her husband did it. She says that during Christmas season of 1996 when JonBenet Ramsey was strangled and beaten to death in Colorado, they were living in Alabama at the time and she was with him the entire Christmas season.
We spoke with a former neighbor of his, Sylvia Ross, who described him as "friendly, but divisive." She says that everyone in the neighborhood knew about the child pornography charges, but were afraid to talk openly about them.
He's probably some nutjob trying to earn his 15 minutes by claiming to be the killer.
I have to say, out of all the news stories in the world, I care most about the outcome of this story.
This is bull ! Her parents did it, its clear as daylight. So much evidence against them its mindboggling how authorities haven't arrested them. Plus the way they were raising that poor girl... give me the creeps!
Suspect Admits to killing JonBenet Ramsey
Yahoo NewsBANGKOK, Thailand - An American suspect arrested in Bangkok has admitted to killing 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, the head of Thailand immigration police said Thursday, a surprise breakthrough in a lurid, decade-old murder mystery that had cast a cloud of su ion over her parents.
John Mark Karr, 41, admitted to the killing after he was arrested at his downtown Bangkok apartment Wednesday night, Lt. Gen. Suwat Tumrongsiskul told The Associated Press.
Suwat said Karr arrived in Bangkok on June 6 from Malaysia to look for a teaching job. It was not clear whether he got a teaching position, the police officer said.
Karr's visa has been revoked as an "undesirable person" given the accusations against him, and U.S. authorities were expected to take him to the United States in the next few days, Suwat said.
hmmm... interesting, so much for "the parents did it" theory
Earlier today they said that when John Ramsey was talking about the arrest they asked if he knew the man and he said, "Not to my knowledge."Karr was a teacher who once lived in Conyers, Ga., according to Wood. The attorney said the Ramseys gave police information about Karr before he was identified as a suspect.
Wood would not say how the Ramseys knew Karr.
Manu, based on the information we were given regarding the murder I always felt that the mother was guilty too, but the truth is that they didn't even have enough evidence to take it to trial.
A bizarre and tragic story.
Weird weird weird.
DA warns against jumping to conclusions...
JonBenet Ramsey D.A.: More work needed
CATHERINE TSAI, Associated Press
BOULDER, ColoTwin Cities. - The district attorney in the JonBenet Ramsey slaying said Thursday there is "much more work" to be done in the case against the suspect, and she warned the public not to "jump to conclusions."
Mary Lacy, who has spearheaded the investigation for Boulder County, did not immediately disclose any details about the case involving former schoolteacher John Mark Karr, 41, who was arrested a day earlier at an apartment in Bangkok. In an interview with the Associated Press, Karr said he killed the girl by accident.
But Lacy suggested that the arrest may have been forced by other cir stances, including the need for public safety and fear the suspect might flee.
"There are cir stances that exist in any case that mandate an arrest before an investigation is complete," Lacy said.
She refused to say whether authorities were worried Karr was lying about killing the little girl. Lacy said Karr has not been formally charged, and declined to speculate what counts he might face.
"I'm asking you this morning, let us do our job thoroughly and carefully. The analysis of the evidence in this case continues on a day-by-day, on an hour-by-hour basis as we speak," she said, adding that "there is much more work to be done now that the suspect is in custody.
The NY Times is reporting that an American official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that Mr. Karr had already come to the attention of American law enforcement officials in Thailand before the JonBenet investigation as part of a broader investigation into Americans who travel to Southeast Asian countries and engage in pedophilia-related activities.
NY TimesMs. Lacy said prosecutors often make arrests before they have all the evidence lined up if there is a question of public safety or there is fear that the suspect might flee. While she mentioned Mr. Karr’s new job teaching in a school, and that he had moved from country to country in the last few years, she quickly added that she was not commenting on his case specifically.
One American official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of a continuing criminal investigation, cautioned against jumping too swiftly to the conclusion that someone who has confessed to a crime did in fact commit it. The official pointed out that it is not unusual in notorious cases, as the Ramsey case has surely become, for people to falsely claim that they committed the crime, basing their confessions on what they have read in the newspaper.
Even so, the official said, Mr. Karr “certainly knows a lot about it.” The official declined to provide any more details.
Mr. Karr, like the Ramsey’s, have roots in the South. Mr. Karr is from Alabama and later lived in Georgia, but some family members told reporters that he had never lived in Colorado.
Mr. Karr’s brother, Nate Karr, told Fox News that to his knowledge Mr. Karr had never lived in or visited Boulder, The Rocky Mountain News reported. Mr. Karr’s former wife, Lara Karr, told KGO-TV in San Francisco on Wednesday that while the couple was still married, her husband spent considerable time researching the Ramsey case and another notorious child murder case, that of Polly Klaas, who was abducted and killed in Petaluma, Calif., in 1993.
Ms. Karr said that she and Mr. Karr were in Alabama together on Dec. 25, 1996, the day JonBenet was killed in Colorado.
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