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JonBenet's killer: I loved her |
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Written by asap
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Thursday, 17 August 2006 |
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BANGKOK, Thailand — The suspect in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey spoke to the Associated Press as U.S. and Thai authorities escorted him from his Bangkok hotel, where he spent over an hour packing his belongings.
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ATTACHMENT: John Mark Karr said that he loved the 6-year-old beauty queen “very much” and is “very sorry for what happened.”
Asked for details of how JonBenet died, Karr replied: “It would take several hours to describe -- to describe that.”
“There’s no way I could be brief about it. It’s a very involved series of events,” said Karr, who speaks with a thick Southern accent. “It’s very painful for me to talk about.”
FAMILY EXCHANGES: Karr said he contacted JonBenet’s mother, Patsy, before she died of cancer in June to express his remorse for the killing.
“I conveyed to her many things, among them that I am so very sorry for what happened to JonBenet,” Karr said as he left his budget hotel, The Blooms.
CRIME: Karr, 41, was arrested Wednesday, halfway around the world from Boulder, Colo., where JonBenet’s body was found beaten and strangled in her parent’s basement on Dec. 26, 1996.
INVESTIGATION: In the run-up to Karr’s arrest, U.S. authorities had rented rooms at The Blooms, which is located in a central Bangkok neighborhood of massage parlors and travel agencies catering to expatriates and sex tourists.
The hotel offers rooms for as little as three hours -- for $8 -- and monthly stays starting at $170.
NOW WHAT? Karr will be taken within the week to Colorado, where he will face charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping and child sexual assault, said Ann Hurst of the Department of Homeland Security, one of several officials who accompanied the suspect back to his hotel.
MYSTERY LINGERS: Dressed in a baggy turquoise polo shirt and khaki pants, Karr said that JonBenet’s death was “not what it seems to be,” though he declined to elaborate.
“In every way,” he added, as authorities bundled him into a waiting vehicle. “It’s not at all what it seems to be.”
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