I'm guessing thats what he wanted in the first place, hoping everyone would be so entrenched in their desire to fry someone for the original crime, they'd just off him with little hesitation.

Yes, a sick mind IMO....and yeah, likely (again, IMO) the planet would be safer in general without him in it, but thats just my very narrow opinion and rarely sufficient grounds for throwing him in a hole.

a pity really

Does anyone else wonder if he admitted to this to avoid being tried in Thailand? He knew it would have brought him back to the states and away from Thai justice.

He wasn't in Thai custody for anything he did in Thailand. He was there awaiting extradition back to California for the child porn misdemeanors. This did seemingly accelerate the extradition process, so that could have been a motivation, as I mentioned earlier. But that was mostly in jest as that seems a rather risky tack.

Ah. I thought he was in Thai custody for crimes committed in Thailand.

This just in: The police have lost the computer that they had seized in 2001 as evidence in the child pron case against Karr.

But they do have a back-up of the files (or so I heard on the news this morning).

The prosecutors have offered him a plea bargin: plead guilty to two of the charges and they drop the other three.

I read a quote that they said the "put everything down on paper."

Yup. And that doesn't lead me to believe they have particularly good backup data.