A Boulder County District Attorney investigator is bringing a suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case back to the United States.
The suspect was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday morning.
The suspect has confessed to certain elements of the crime that are unknown to the general public.
The suspect is expected to arrive back in the United States, possibly within the next two days, accompanied by an investigator from the Boulder DA's office.
The Boulder County DA's office has not confirmed the identity of the suspect, but is expected to have a press conference later today.
wth was the mom doing in Bangkok?
By Keith Coffman
Wed Aug 16, 5:57 PM ET
BOULDER, Colo. (Reuters) - An unidentified man was arrested in Thailand on Wednesday in connection with the 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey, a child beauty queen whose grisly death triggered a U.S. media frenzy, prosecutors said.
The suspect, who was not identified by authorities, "was arrested following several months of a focused and complex investigation," Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy said in a statement.
Lacy said both the girl's father, John, and late mother, Patsy, were consulted during the course of the investigation. Patsy Ramsey died of ovarian cancer in June.
Prosecutors declined to release further details about the case or the suspect, but CNN identified him as a 41-year-old American school teacher who was visiting Thailand.
Lacy scheduled a news conference for 2 p.m. (4 p.m. EDT/2000 GMT) on Thursday.
The suspect was expected to be returned in the coming days to Boulder, Colorado, where JonBenet, 6, lived with her family at the time of her December 26, 1996, murder. The United States has an extradition treaty with Thailand.
The girl's body was found in the basement of the family home and on a staircase a note was left saying that she had been kidnapped by a "small foreign faction" and demanding $118,000 in ransom.
Local KUSA-TV in Denver said the suspect had confessed to elements of the crime that were unknown to the general public.
John Ramsey confirmed in a written statement that both he and his late wife had been consulted in the arrest.
"So Patsy was aware that authorities were close to making an arrest in the case and 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," he said.
Ramsey told KUSA that to the best of his knowledge he was not acquainted with the suspect.
No charges were ever filed in the 10 years since JonBenet was found beaten and strangled. Her parents came under the Boulder police "umbrella of suspicion" but a grand jury issued no indictments.
The killing drew intense media coverage focusing on JonBenet's success in youth beauty pageants, the family's affluence and mysterious elements of the case, including the note that first led police to believe the girl had been kidnapped
Nah, they're rich. They PAY people to do the dirty work.
He admited that he killed her.
I said he fell in love with her.
And when he wrote the ransom note he wanted to take her away but she resisted so he killed her. Then fled from the house.
Sick sick man. If is was the father of that little girl. I would unlesh hell on his ass.
I guess we will see soon if he actually did it.
Yeah, what a freaking bizarre bunch of people. This is what happens when freaks are allowed to breed.
What perplexes me is the fact that this dude was NEVER mentioned from what I recall. How did they all of a sudden decide that he was the one? I mean, the arrested the parents for goodness sake. What a bungling bunch of cops.
What CNN was saying this morning is that they'd been watching this guy for a while, and finally swooped. He's said on camera that he wasn't innocent (or at least replied "No" when a reporter asked him if he was innocent), that he loved her, and her death was an accident. Dude looks the part, too. And living in Bangkok? Yeah...guess where you can get child prostitutes? Anyway, this guy's hosed, unless he gets a really good lawyer who manages to spin the "crazy as a loon" defense.
Well, until the DNA or the boot print is found to be his, I am not 100% convinced that he actually did it. I know he is a child porn freak and all, but innocent till proven and whatnot...
I hope he is the guy since he confessed and all, so this can finally be laid to rest.
You're lucky you deleted that.
He was busted for child porn before. In case you missed it in the news.
A professor from a university that new karr, which was exhanging emails back and fourth. She thought he had done it. Which she stated he kinda left traces in his return emails about the litle girl. Which in return she handed it over to the police department. Then they went looking for him i beleived they traced his return emails to thailand, that is how they new where he was.
According to reuters.
I was skeptical from the beginning and it keeps getting more interesting.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20060818/D8JIG9DG0.html
Didn't his ex-wife say he was in Alabama when the murder took place?
http://wcco.com/topstories/topstories_story_228160253.html
Anybody read his resume?
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/download/2006/0817/9695832.pdfPretty suspicious that he worked real estate up until 1996 and then all of a sudden started traveling the world, picking up odd jobs here and there.
Definitely the suspect, and very likely guilty.
http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=5647dd32-0abe-421a-01cb-49517318e6a4&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bfSurprise, surprise. The Boulder CO DA's office must be the most incompetent set of law enforcement boobs ever assembled.
Either that or they know that regardless of what happens 50% of America will continue to beleive that the case has now been solved.
Boulder PD is party patrol. Nothing more.
I know this because I lived there. They leave traffic enforcement up to cameras and radar vans, and we all know how they handle the rest.
On Monday, the attorney said: ??From Day One, John Ramsey publicly stated that he did not want the public or the media to jump to judgment. He did not want the public or the media to engage in speculation, that he wanted the justice system to take its course.?
Because he's probably the one that hired the real killer & knew they'd have nothing on this head-case...
