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Karr to be back in U.S. tonight
By TIMES WIRES
Published August 20, 2006
The man who claims he was involved in the death of JonBenet Ramsey is expected to land in Los Angeles tonight aboard a Thai Airways jetliner after being expelled from Thailand. John Mark Karr, 41, remained out of the public eye as Thai and U.S. officials finished the paperwork for flying him back to the United States. "The tickets for John Mark Karr's departure are ready," said Thailand's immigration police chief, Lt. Gen. Suwat Tumrongsiskul. "He is leaving for the United States on Sunday evening." A Thai Airways official said Karr had been booked onto Flight 794 to Los Angeles for the 15-hour trip back to the United States. After landing in Los Angeles, Karr is to be flown to Boulder, Colo., where he will face charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping and child sexual assault in connection with the killing of JonBenet, officials said. JonBenet's body was found Dec. 26, 1996, in the basement of her family's Boulder, Colo., home. Karr spent his final day in Thailand in a cell on the upper floors of Bangkok's immigration detention center, reading, watching television and staying quiet, an immigration official said Saturday. Karr was not being allowed visitors at the immigration jail except for legal officials. Karr's statements that he was with JonBenet when she died and that her death was an accident have generated intense media interest. Already Saturday, television crews had pitched camp on the manicured grounds of the court building in Boulder. Lin Wood, the Atlanta attorney who represented JonBenet's parents John and Patsy Ramsey for years, said camera crews followed Ramsey on Friday when he took his son, Burke, to Purdue University to start the college year. "He cannot go back to his home in Michigan because it is surrounded by the media," Wood said. "Last night, I've never heard him so angry. I'm not sure John Ramsey will ever speak to a member of the media after what happened to him yesterday." Information from the Associated Press, Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post was used in this report.
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