Suspect in child beauty star murder arrives in US

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2006

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — A US teacher arrested in connection with the decade-old killing of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey arrived here from Thailand to undergo more questioning about his possible role in the 1996 murder.

John Mark Karr, 41, flew in business class on a Thai Airways flight that landed at Los Angeles International Airport at 9:27 pm (0427 GMT Monday).

Witnesses said the suspect made the trip in style, drinking champagne and enjoying business class service in the company of three security escorts.

"It was a little weird to travel with someone like Mr. Karr," Dan Shieff, a banker who happened to be on the same flight, told reporters. "He was smiling, relaxed and very, very chilled out."

After landing, Karr was whisked out of the plane by...

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