Man Arrested For JonBenet Murder
Suspect arrested in JonBenet Ramsey case
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BOULDER, Colo. - A former schoolteacher was arrested Wednesday in Thailand in the slaying of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey — a surprise breakthrough in a lurid, decade-old murder mystery that had cast a cloud of suspicion over her own parents.
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Suspect arrested in JonBenet Ramsey case
School teacher, 41, is questioned and arrested in Thailand
Wednesday, August 16, 2006; Posted: 7:40 p.m. EDT (23:40 GMT)
The body of JonBenet Ramsey, a 6-year-old beauty pageant winner, was found in her family home in 1996.
-- A suspect has been arrested "for the December 26, 1996, murder of JonBenet Ramsey," the district attorney in Boulder, Colorado, said Wednesday.
A law enforcement source identified the suspect as 41-year-old John Mark Karr, a one-time school teacher and American citizen who has lived in Conyers, Georgia.
It is the first arrest in the decade-long investigation of child beauty pageant contestant's slaying. The breakthrough came as a surprise to many who feared the case might never be solved.
Karr was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand, following "several months of focused and complex investigation," District Attorney Mary Lacy said.
JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, were consulted during the investigation, Lacy said, and the Ramsey family was notified of the arrest. Patsy Ramsey died in June of ovarian cancer at age 49. (Watch how the suspect's name surfaced -- 1:29)
Two law enforcement sources told CNN that Karr also was under investigation for an unrelated sex crime.
Karr was arrested Wednesday morning and has confessed to certain elements of the crime that are unknown to the general public, CNN affiliate KUSA reported.
An investigator with the Boulder County District Attorney's office is bringing Karr to Colorado from Thailand. Prosecutors plan to hold a news conference in Boulder on Thursday.
JonBenet's beaten and strangled body was found in the basement of the family home in Boulder, the day after Christmas in 1996. She was 6.
An autopsy determined she had received a massive blow to the head and was strangled with a garrote made from a paintbrush.
The Ramseys said an intruder committed the crime, but they remained the subject of suspicion and speculation. A grand jury investigation into the slaying of the child beauty pageant winner ended with no indictments.
Law enforcement officials said Karr was not known to investigators at the time. A warrant for his arrest was issued Tuesday night.
With no known suspect, the Ramseys remained the subject of suspicion and speculation and the case provided years of fodder for the news networks and the tabloids. At one point the Boulder police said the Ramseys were under "an umbrella of suspicion."
"It is our hope that this arrest will bring some closure to the Ramsey family after a 10-year ordeal," said the family's attorney, Hal Haddon.
John Ramsey released a statement Wednesday. He said that his wife knew when she died that an arrest might be coming.
"Had she lived to see this day, would no doubt have been as pleased as I am with today's development almost 10 years after our daughter's murder," Ramsey said. (Read the full statement)
Another attorney, Lin Wood, said that although the family knew and hoped this day was coming, relatives were still not emotionally prepared for it and were working through those emotions.
"We may be, and I say may be, one step closer to the final resolution of the case. But again, I would urge that Mr. Karr be given the presumption of innocence," Wood said.
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.
CNN's Kelli Arena contributed to this report.
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damn hopefully they got the right guy...I remember that shit...poor kid...RIP
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bout fucking time...i still think the parents had something to do with it
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i literally just said that to my friend lolOriginally Posted by b18hatch
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great minds think alike
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werd lolgreat minds think alike
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i bet the parents were in on it
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he lived in conyers ga? did u add that in hulud?
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nope. he really did live in conyers
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its on the news right now...
Hopefully it will work out for some closure
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heard it on the radio at work. Crazy stuff. Hope they catch the true killer/killers
not really sure...they said they tracked him through the internet!
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yea he was sending emails to jonbenets mother
they wont release what was in the emails, but cmon you know the parents had something to do with it
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so they caught the person the parents hired
weird
GOD SPEAKS THE TRUTH LOL
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i had no clue the mom died....thats weird.
& if the parents were in on it, what was the motive???
bout damn time
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jonbenet is the name of a girl?
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soo he said he was with her when she died. He said her death was an accident. He was in love with her. Fuckin queer
There is alot of speculation around this case. I was listening to it this morning on the Bert show and they said that since this guy was in Thailand he may have confessed to the murder to get out of some crime he commited in Thailand seeing as how Thailand has some pretty harsh punishments over there. Who knows if he really did do it then he deserves every thing we throw at him. If he didn't do it he is onesombitch to confess to such a hanous(spelling) crime.
i still think the parents did it... motive i have no idea...
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jealousy, the dad showed more interest in jonbenet than patsy (mother) about the whole beauty pageant thing
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Damn they will never let that shit go!!!!!! If she was black they would have forgotton about it within the next hour
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...if i were about to be arrested and sentenced to jail in thailand...i'd claim responsibility for every single crime in history to come back to the US and serve my jail sentence here instead...
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i really dont get how THIS murder is national. not trying to think negatively, and im sorry the lil girl died, but just b/c this lil girl was in a pageant she made headlines..i dont get it
i have a question everyone needs to think about....
he says he killed her on accident, but how do you accidently kill someone when you strangle them by wrapping a rope/cloth around their neck and then twist it to tighten it? (like a tourniquet)
you think he was alone? or he IS the killer? somethings not right here...
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I hate to sound racist, she got all of that attention b/c she is white. The samething goes for all those missing girls that get national attention, you hardly ever hear of hispanics or blacks missing
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i didnt want to say it either but thats what i was thinking too. i mean its sad yea, but going national off of it IMO is ridiculous
I didn't even know that little girl is buried here in Marietta, GA close to the square....
thats because alot of hispanics that go missing, arent legal so nobody even really counts them
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OH SHIT!!!
OJ DID IT!!!
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you know something makes me think b18 wasnt even trying to be funny....like, i think he was being serious...
great. he's probably an illegal immigrant or something & he's coming to find us right now...
~runs away & hides~
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