JonBenet suspect 'abnormal'
2006-08-29 10:27
Bangkok - A senior police officer said on Tuesday that John Mark Karr, who had confessed in Thailand to the killing of a six-year-old beauty queen in the US, seemed "abnormal".
But Lieutenant General Suwat Tumrongsiskul, the key Thai official in the arrest and detention of Karr, refused to comment on charges being dropped against Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey.
Charges dropped
Prosecutors in Colorado abruptly dropped their case against him on Monday.
"We cannot make comment or give a reaction to the case of a US prosecutor dropping charges against Mr Karr," Suwat told The Associated Press.
"Our job was merely to support the US request to arrest him after they issued the arrest warrant.
'This man was abnormal'
"The comments I made earlier about his confession was what he told our investigators. We do not know whether he lied or not. But in my opinion, I had the impression that this man was abnormal, and I earlier told reporters this," said Suwat, who heads the country's immigration police.
The American prosecutors said DNA tests failed to put Karr at the crime scene despite his insistence he sexually assaulted and strangled the six-year-old beauty queen.
Deeply in love with JonBenet
Karr was arrested in Thailand a week and a half ago, reportedly telling interrogators that he had accidentally killed JonBenet Ramsey in 1996. Suwat told reporters at the time that Karr insisted to investigators that he had been deeply in love with the child.
Karr, who had been teaching in Bangkok for part of the past two years, was expelled from the country and flown to the United States accompanied by three US officials.
- AP