The former suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey killing left jail after a US judge dismissed child pornography charges against him.

John Mark Karr, who was briefly a suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey killing, has arrived in California to face child pornography charges, US authorities said.

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.

Murder suspect John Karr will appear in a Colorado court on Monday over the killing of the child beauty queen.

JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect John Karr arrived today in the Colorado city where the six-year-old was killed to face charges in a case prosecutors said was still in its “very early stages”.

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.