JonBenet murder suspect set to leave for Los Angeles on Sunday
The American teacher arrested here in connection with the decade-old murder of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey is set to leave Bangkok for Los Angeles this weekend, a senior police official told AFP on Saturday.
John Mark Karr, 41, is expected to take a Thai Airways flight on Sunday evening to Los Angeles, the senior immigration police official said, speaking onconditi on of anonymity. "He will leave the immigration center around 3:00 pm (0800 GMT) and he is booked on Thai Airways flight 794 leaving at 7:20 pm," he said. A Thai Airways official confirmed that Karr was booked on the flight, to be accompanied by US security officials. Thailand revoked Karr's visa after he was arrested Wednesday in Bangkok over the brutal killing of the six-year-old girl who was found strangled and beaten to death in the basement of her family's Colorado home on the day after Christmas 1996. The US arrest warrant charges him with murder, kidnapping and sexual assault of a child. Agence France-Presse
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