Karr 'without doubt' didn't kill

2006-08-25 15:19

Boulder - John Mark Karr's brother insisted on Friday that Karr did not kill JonBenet Ramsey. "Absolutely not. Emphatically. Without a doubt," Nate Karr said in a television interview.

Karr told ABC's Good Morning America he was certain his brother spent Christmas 1996, when JonBenet was slain, with his family.

"Well I can say almost without question that from the time that John had children he has never missed a Christmas with his family, and that's any Christmas," Karr said.

"If he was away from his family during Christmas it would have been a family scandal," Nate Karr said.

Difficult to remember

The brother said he was uncertain where the family spent the holiday when the six-year-old child beauty queen was slain in her Boulder, Colo., home.

"To the best of our recollection, he was either with us in Atlanta or with (his ex-wife) Lara," Nate Karr said. "It's not as easy as you might think to remember 10 years ago."

Addressing his brother, Nate Karr said: "We love you and we support you 100%. ... Help's on the way."

Karr in Colorado jail

John Mark Karr, meanwhile, spent his first night in a jail cell in Colorado, away from other inmates for his own safety.

Nine days after his arrest in Thailand, the 41-year-old former schoolteacher now awaits a court appearance that could come as early as next week.

His first few hours at the jail were to include physical and mental evaluations, and he was isolated from the other 480 inmates, Boulder County sheriff Joe Pelle said.

"Anybody that's in jail in our population that faces these kinds of charges, charges against children, faces some danger," Pelle said.

- AP