The DNA mismatch between John Mark Karr and evidence in the JonBenet Ramsey murder was a setback for prosecutors, but they promised to continue searching for the six-year-old beauty queen’s killer.

A senior police officer said today that John Mark Karr, who had confessed in Thailand to the killing of a six-year-old beauty queen in the US, seemed “abnormal".

Relatives of John Mark Karr today offered the movie and book rights to the family’s story in the hope of hiring a high-level attorney to defend the schoolteacher against charges he killed six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey.

John Mark Karr, the suspect in the murder of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, waived extradition today and agreed to be sent to Colorado.

A group of US media organisations have asked a Colorado judge to make public the arrest warrant and other documents involving JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect John Karr.

John Mark Karr, the suspect in the killing of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, arrived in the US after a 15-hour flight from Thailand on which he sipped champagne, dined on fried king prawns and roast duck, and exchanged what he described as “small talk” with law enforcement escorts.

A suspect in the murder of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey left Thailand on a flight to the US today to face charges in connection with her death.

The suspect in the murder of JonBenet Ramsey arrived at Bangkok’s international airport today for a flight to the US where he will face charges in relation to the death of the six-year-old beauty queen.

Thai authorities today barred access to murder suspect John Mark Karr as varying accounts of what he said about the death of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey raised questions as to whether his confession could help solve the decade-old case.

Murder suspect John Mark Karr today awaited expulsion to the US where questions mounted over whether his confession to the killing of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey would stand up.

For a moment, it seemed the decade-old mystery surrounding the slaying of a child beauty queen had been solved. But authorities have cautioned against rushing to judge the schoolteacher who made a stunning confession that he killed JonBenet Ramsey.

MOST Americans knew JonBenet Ramsey only in death — as the blonde-haired little girl in the pink cowgirl outfit, bouncing across the stage with a million-dollar smile.

An American expatriate school teacher said publicly today he was with JonBenet Ramsey when she died in what he called “an accident", a stunning admission after a decade without answers in the six-year-old’s murder.

The American suspect in the 1996 killing of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey in Colorado told questioners he drugged and then had sex with his victim before accidentally killing her, a senior Thai police officer said today.

The suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey killing held in Thailand said he was “very sorry for what happened” to the six-year-old beauty queen who was murdered a decade ago in the basement of her home, and that he loved her “very much”.

Thai police today said that a 41-year-old American man has admitted to the killing a decade ago of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey in the United States.