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Man Admits to Killing JonBenet Ramsey
from AP, CNN

An American suspect arrested in Bangkok has admitted to killing 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, according to the head of Thailand immigration police. This comes as a surprise breakthrough in a lurid, decade-old murder mystery that had cast a cloud of suspicion over her parents.

John Mark Karr, 41, admitted to the killing after he was arrested at his downtown Bangkok apartment Wednesday night. Karr arrived in Bangkok on June 6 from Malaysia to look for a teaching job. It was not clear whether he got a teaching position.

Karr's visa has been revoked as an "undesirable person" given the accusations against him, and U.S. authorities were expected to take him to the United States in the next few days.

Karr has been charged with murder, kidnapping, and sexual assault of a child.

In a statement Wednesday, John Ramsey said: "Patsy was aware that authorities were close to making an arrest in the case, and had she lived to see this day, would no doubt have been as pleased as I am with today's development almost 10 years after our daughter's murder." The Boulder Police had been tracking Karr online throughout a "focused and complex investigation."