UPDATE No Murder Charges for John Mark Karr

from CNN

Prosecutors abandoned their case against school teacher John Mark Karr on Monday, saying that DNA tests failed to link Karr to the slaying of child beauty contestant JonBenet Ramsey.

DNA tests completed Saturday confirmed that Karr was not the source of the DNA found on the underwear of JonBenet Ramsey -- disproving his claim that he was sexually involved with the child and killed her by accident. Karr's family also provided strong circumstantial evidence he was with them in Georgia at the time of the crime.

The 41-year-old schoolteacher will be kept in jail in Boulder until he can be sent to Sonoma County, Calif., to face child pornography charges dating to 2001.