I expect it's because the Boulder police botched the investigation and it took 10 Years for this guys conscience to get to him.

I does make this a doubly sad case. I know that I'm on record with a lot of other people thinking that the parents were involved, not with the murder but with protecting the killer (ie it was one of their other kids). So to have your daughter killed and then have people think you were involved... :(

Here's hoping the guy is a DNA match, because if the Thai police didn't mirandize him, that confession is out.

Too much Law and Order makes me think the guy is giving up way too much too easily. However, he apparently knew details of the scene that were not public, so who knows.

I have to admit, my first thought was: "This guy is facing time in a Thai prison. He will do or say anything to be extradited to the US."

Closure would be good. Truth would be better.

Interesting concept. I did hear today that he had "investigated" this crime for a college paper, even interviewed one of the grandparents. He could have learned the unpublished details of the crime that way. He was also expecting to get charged with second degree (involuntary) manslaughter. Now that's he's up for the death penalty with first degree (CO does have the death penalty) perhaps MousePod is right and he will recant.

Now his ex is saying that he was with her at the time of the murder. What the heck is going on here...?

Oh, you were expecting this case to get wrapped up in a tight little bow?



It's a riddle wrapped up in an enigma.

CNN is now reporting that "sources say" there is a DNA link with Mr. Karr.

So if his ex says she was with him and evidence shows he was at the Ramsey's then perhaps she should be prosecuted along with him?

I think I just found my new sig line

He wasn't facing time in a Thai prison (so far as I can tell). He was only arrested because of U.S. warrants out on him.

He was arrested in California in 2001 for possession of child pornography and then fled after being released on bail. He hadn't been seen since (and his family thought he was dead). When authorities tracked him to Thailand the Thai police put him under surveillance and he was arrested. But not for anything he did in Thailand.

What's vaguely interesting to me is that news stories quote American police saying he has a record of several sexual assaults in the South. At the time of his 2001 arrest he was working at a Catholic girls school in San Francisco. I wonder if he lied or if they didn't do a proper background check.

Also, can you imagine the grilling every girl at that school at that time is getting from the parents today?

Sigh. I so wish I cared more about this case. It has the makings of a bad TV movie all over it. I must be a hardened, unsympathetic individual.