Wow. Wasn't expecting that. News reports have identified John Mark Karr as the individual arrested in Thailand in connection with the 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey. And Salon is reporting that Karr has actually confessed to the crime (or at least to being present when JonBenet's accidental death occured). Jon Benet's mother Patsy Ramsey died earlier this year from cancer, but according to The Guardian, she had been informed by police that they were looking in to a new suspect, Karr.

Now the Ramsey murder was one of the weirder slices of American Pie from the last few decades, with virtually every one of her family members under suscpicion at one time or another and disgraced, racist, Rodney King-pummeler and former L.A. Cop, Mark Furman attempting a career makeover investigating the case. Globe-trotting, sex-tourist, school teacher, Karr fits right into the weirdness.

-- MDT