Among the other evidence found at the scene was a garrotte and a paintbrush handle used to tighten it, a boot print outside the family house and some signs an intruder could have entered through a basement window. Male DNA was also found on blood spots on the victim's underwear. Hair fibres found on a blanket placed over JonBenet's body, did not match any of the Ramsey family or about 100 people whose DNA was tested. Mrs Ramsey died of ovarian cancer in June. JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, had been the object of intense media scrutiny following the murder. He's the kind of guy who wants to be famous."Ī lawyer for the Ramsey family, Lin Wood, had no immediate comment. "He may have some personality problems, but he's not a killer," Mr Harris said. He said Mr Karr had been 'obsessed with this case for a long time'. "I knew it wouldn't match," he told MSNBC. Gary Harris, a spokesman for the Karr family, said he expected the DNA test result. His case has raised questions over how easy it is for paedophile suspects to flee their home countries and find jobs as teachers in Thailand. However, Mr Karr, aged 41, still faces child pornography charges in California. "We're deeply distressed that they took this man and dragged him here from Bangkok, Thailand, with no forensic evidence confirming the allegations against him and no independent factors leading to a presumption that he did anything wrong," Mr Temin said yesterday. Experts said his handwriting did not match a ransom note thought to be from the murderer. His ex-wife said he had been with his family in Georgia and Alabama for the 1996 Christmas holidays. There were concerns from the time of his arrest that Mr Karr might be a disturbed attention-seeker.
The police also claimed that he had known details about the crime scene in the Ramsey's basement that were not publicly available. He told reporters before being flown back to the US that he had been with JonBenet at the time of her death, which he claimed was an accident. Mr Karr had been arrested nearly two weeks ago in Thailand where he had been working as a teacher, after he was identified as the source of emails claiming responsibility for the murder to Michael Tracey, a British journalism professor at Colorado University, who had made documentaries about the case.
"The warrant on Mr Karr has been dropped by the district attorney," Mr Karr's public defender Seth Temin said outside the jail where he was being held. The charges against John Mark Karr were dropped by a Colorado district attorneys' office soon after it was found that his DNA did not match that found at the scene of the crime, at the Ramsey family home in Boulder in December 1996, when the young beauty pageant contestant was bludgeoned and garrotted to death. Charges were dropped yesterday against a schoolteacher arrested for the 1996 murder of six year-old JonBenet Ramsey, leaving one of modern America's most notorious crimes unsolved.
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