Report: Suspect Arrested In JonBenet Ramsey Murder Case

[f5fstop]

BOULDER, Colo. ? A man arrested in Thailand is being held in connection with the slaying nearly a decade ago of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

Colorado authorities scheduled a news conference Thursday to discuss the case, but declined further comment.

Federal officials familiar with the case, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the man was already being held in Bangkok on unrelated sex charges. Media reported that the suspect, a 41-year-old second-grade teacher, will be brought back to the United States this weekend.

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

Law enforcement officials from Boulder were flying to Bangkok to present Thai authorities with documents in the slaying, officials in Washington said. They asked to remain anonymous pending an announcement in Colorado.

KUSA-TV of Denver, citing no sources, reported that the suspect has confessed to certain elements of the crime.

Officials in the Boulder County District Attorney's Office had no immediate comment. Nor did local police and sheriff's officials.


The girl's parents, Patsy and John Ramsey, had been under an "umbrella of suspicion" in JonBenet's death. The Ramseys said an intruder killed their daughter. A grand jury investigation in Boulder ended with no indictments, and no arrests had been made in the case.

Patsy Ramsey died in June.

In 2003, U.S. District Judge Julie Carnes in Atlanta concluded that the evidence she reviewed suggested an intruder killed JonBenet. That opinion came with the judge's decision to dismiss a libel and slander lawsuit against the Ramseys by a freelance journalist, whom the Ramseys had named as a suspect in their daughter's murder. The Boulder district attorney at the time said she agreed with Carnes' declaration.

[Adam in CO]

Just read that. Obviously a big deal here in CO.

[Agriv8r]

if true, there are alot of "I'm sorry's" due to the parents

[DDWH]

Originally Posted by Agriv8r

if true, there are alot of "I'm sorry's" due to the parents

no doubt, I always thought they did it.....still wonder if this is a fall guy for closure?!?!?!?

[DRTYFN]

Definitely a fall guy. He was stuck in a Thai prison for a child molestation conviction and was given a way back to the States. Mom is roasting in a hot place right now.

[ssgharkness020147]

I had a feeling you would say something to that effect. I do agree with you though, I hope she is drinking a nice warm glass of lava as I write this.

Originally Posted by DRTYFN

Mom is roasting in a hot place right now.

[DennisAJC]

The fukker just confessed to the murder a few minutes ago. He looks like a sleaze ball. Caught in Thailand for raping kids and maybe connected to numerous other child crimes.


He was to begin as a A GRADE 2 TEACHER?!?!

Makes you wonder what proffessions these sickos try and hide under. Oh Lord I hope he suffers.

[HummBob]

I thought Patsy DIED??? How can they arrest her

[ssgharkness020147]

It was an "ACCIDENT"!!! He just said it was an accident, but then admitted to STRANGLING her to death. HOW THE FUKK do you strangle someone to death on accident??? Hell awaits buddy. Hell awaits.

Originally Posted by DennisAJC

The fukker just confessed to the murder a few minutes ago. He looks like a sleaze ball. Caught in Thailand for raping kids and maybe connected to numerous other child crimes.


He was to begin as a A GRADE 2 TEACHER?!?!

Makes you wonder what proffessions these sickos try and hide under. Oh Lord I hope he suffers.

[f5fstop]

Brother was on the TV last night (via phone...Greta show, Fox News), and said that he doesn't believe it, and that he is checking photos of that time to see if brother was in GA at a family get together at the time of her death. He is supposed to be on Greta tonight.
I guess time will tell if he is the scumbag...

[DRTYFN]

The more I see & read about this turd I know I'm right. He's a liar and the cops are all too happy to possibly be "solving" this case.
The parents did it. End of story.

[DRTYFN]

The cops are going to be eating sh*t on this one.

Laura Karr is his ex-wife.

Laura Karr, who still lives in Petaluma, told KGO-TV in San Francisco last night that she was devastated and embarrassed by the murder charge, but does not believe that her husband committed the crime.

She said she and her husband were living in Alabama around Christmas 1996, when JonBenet was murdered in her Colorado home.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/sto...p-374132c.html

[ree]

Originally Posted by f5fstop

Brother was on the TV last night (via phone...Greta show, Fox News), and said that he doesn't believe it, and that he is checking photos of that time to see if brother was in GA at a family get together at the time of her death. He is supposed to be on Greta tonight.
I guess time will tell if he is the scumbag...

Laura Karr, who still lives in Petaluma, told KGO-TV in San Francisco last night that she was devastated and embarrassed by the murder charge, but does not believe that her husband committed the crime.

She said she and her husband were living in Alabama around Christmas 1996, when JonBenet was murdered in her Colorado home.

Denial-stage family members of criminals can be idiots. "No, my precious Johnny could never do anything like that " Someone has to be at least a mother and father to these freaks.

Is there really DNA evidence available? I hope so. This guy sounds so like one of those wierdos who wants to be famous, so much so that he'll research a case and take the blame if he can convince someone he knows enough to have been the perpetrator.

[DRTYFN]

Originally Posted by ree

Denial-stage family members of criminals...

No. Not basing any opinions on that.

There were NO footprints in the snow around the Ramsey's house. It was done by the parents. There was so much evidence that was tainted because those Barney Fife cops that made the initial call f*cked up and didn't secure the scene, thus allowing a plausible "explanation" by the Ramsey's lawyers.

[Adam in CO]

I wonder how much the asking price on that house in Boulder is now.

[DennisAJC]

Originally Posted by Adam in CO

I wonder how much the asking price on that house in Boulder is now.

LOL! I was thinking the same thing.

That's bad.

[HummerNewbie]

Originally Posted by ree

...so much so that he'll research a case and take the blame if he can convince someone he knows enough to have been the perpetrator.

From what I was told today he had been working on a book about the murder. He had interviewed a number of people close to the case so he would have knowledge of details the public wouldn't know, making him look more guilty. There is also the theory that he is confessing to this crime so that he can be extradited to the US rather than sit in prison there for thirty years on other charges. I find that very plausible and think it is actually a smart move for someone in that situation.

[Mrs.ssippi]

Originally Posted by HummerNewbie

From what I was told today he had been working on a book about the murder. He had interviewed a number of people close to the case so he would have knowledge of details the public wouldn't know, making him look more guilty. There is also the theory that he is confessing to this crime so that he can be extradited to the US rather than sit in prison there for thirty years on other charges. I find that very plausible and think it is actually a smart move for someone in that situation.

Paragon and I were talking about the same thing. We think he just wants to come back to the US quick. I also think he will enjoy prison, I bet he really enjoys the company of men (or boys). I don't know who did it, but I think the parents should be held accountable for something. They dressed their little girl up to look like she was 25, with all of the make-up and stuff. That was a crime in itself. I just think that is wrong. I would bet that child molesters love to hang out at little girls pagents.

[Agriv8r]

but you have to believe that our justice system is too good to be fooled by someone looking for extradition. come on, look at their track record. you are trying to make it seem like our system would lock up an innocent man, or release a guilty one for that matter. have faith in the system, with all the jails and prisons in the country busting at the seams, how could they be wrong

[Hmmm2]

Originally Posted by DRTYFN

There were NO footprints in the snow around the Ramsey's house. It was done by the parents.

Also, I just heard on FOX News that Karr said that of the things he did to JonBenet .. one was giving her a drug , although he didn't mean for her to die. But, in the toxicology tests, there weren't any drugs in her system. IMO, he's just trying to get into some sort of perverted limelight and out of the Thailand prison system. As far as the parents go .. how could they have allowed JonBenet to be paraded in the way she was?!?! I hope I'm wrong, but I still feel the mother is mixed up in this .. still.