<p>No DNA match so he’s off. Weird.</p>
<p>It’s not only no DNA. There seems to be evidence he wasn’t even in the same city. </p>
<p>But he sure got treated nice on that airplane! ;)</p>
<p>First class all the way, baby!</p>
<p>But at least East Asia is now safe from this admitted pedophile.</p>
<p>I suspect his motivation was to get out of Thai jail. Wonder why they could not have asked for DNA before extradition to the States.</p>
<p>If it hadn’t been for this case, he would have been teaching elementary school kids in Thailand. He was scheduled to be a teacher there, not a jailbird.</p>
<p>No surprise to me… I remember telling my d. that I thought it was a false confession the day the news broke. It really had all the earmarks of confabulation by a seriously disturbed individual-- no doubt this man has obsessively fantasized about JonBenet and somewhere the line between fantasy and reality for him has long been obscured.</p>
<p>They probably did not want to ask for DNA prior to extradition since Thai officials would have to approve it, and international transport of samples for testing would slow down the process and open up a lot of angles for an argument that the DNA was tainted somewhere in the meelee of transport. Additionally, carrying biological samples on planes (since they can’t be checked and usually the person with them is armed) require all kinds of hoops with the airlines and manpower. Was probably much quicker to load him on a plane and get him over here and avoid the whole issue.</p>
<p>Plus, given the circumstances, it probably would make sense for them to have him in custody and available. If the tests had been positive, then they might be very happy to have had the opportunity to interview him and take a statement.</p>
<p>Also, from the news:
Source: <a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2006/08/28/national/a144947D03.DTL[/url]”>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2006/08/28/national/a144947D03.DTL</a></p>
<p>That shows that Karr’s own account as to what he claimed to have done was critical to the investigation – and that could be learned for certain only by interviewing him. For example, if he had stated that he fondled her only (no bodily fluids involved), then there would have been less of an expectation of a DNA match.</p>
<p>Maybe they should extradite Karr to Durham and let Mike Nifong take over the prosecution --he’s not one to let the facts get in the way of his opinions.</p>
<p>NSM - forgive me…I kinda stuck my fingers in my ears when I first heard the words JonBenet on the news and haven’t paid much attention to the case since. I believe the initial reports incorrectly stated he was arrested by Thai officials on an unrelated charge and made the confession while in their custody. </p>
<p>Fingers covering eyes now. (This case makes me queasy.)</p>
<p>I don’t usually follow the details of these cases, but the “DNA doesn’t match” headline on the radio news caught my attention. They had DNA from her underwear all this time? If so, how does that relate to the long-standing question of whether the parents were involved? Can DNA from a little girl be adequately distinguished from that of her mother/father/brother? I just wondered.</p>
<p>You can see that I am ignorant on these matters, despite having seen way more than my quota of Law and Orders and CSI’s.</p>
<p>Well, I guess now they can extradite the guy to California to face the child-porn charges here. I imagine that in a little while he’ll be enjoying the “hospitality” inmates are known to show to pedaphiles. That Thai “confession” was probably not his best career move…</p>
<p>He taught for a short time at a school in SF,oh joy…more stupid coverage of a sick man who clearly is enjoying this</p>
<p>jmmom: Yes, they established pretty early on that the DNA was not that of her mother, father, or brother, nor of any other relative of hers.</p>
<p>That didn’t alleviate the suspicions of some, however, who were pretty intent on implicating the parents. Those included people in the press, and law enforcement officials who actively encouraging the press to portray the family as possible suspects.</p>
<p>Kluge, California doesn’t want him – they dropped the warrant and the sheriff in Boulder released him. I think that’s the right choice – he was only charged with misdemeanors, meaning that the worst he was facing was some county jail time…and he would be entitled to bail in the meantime – and face it, do we really want this guy running around our state? Seems to me we already have more than enough pedophiles. Better to let him be somebody else’s problem.</p>
<p>Correction: I’m mistaken-- I read earlier that he was being released, but now the news is that Sonoma county wants him and is going to seek his extradition. I think that’s nuts, in part because I read that he was already held in custody 6 months in Sonoma county on this case before being released earlier, which means a likely outcome would be a plea of guilty and sentence to probation with credit for time served. I suppose the advantage might be that at least he would have a record, and might require him to register as a sex offender, thus preventing him from ever working as a teacher. But I can’t see the guy doing much more time.</p>