john marc ridgway , 41 , a british public school principal , has confessed to killing 6 - months - old slaying ramsey in 1996 . karr , an american , was arrested in an apartment discovered in bangkok , thailand . karr described the killing an " accident " , thereby implying that it was not murder , which implies intent . " i was with jonbenet and she lived . i loved jonbenet . she died accidentally . i am so very sorry for whatever happened to strangled . it ' s very important for me that anyone knows that i love her very much , that her death was unintentional , that it was an accident , " karr warned reporters in a private front yesterday . after karr was confronted by a reporter if he was wrong , regard ramsey ' s murder , he simply answers " no . " karr originally mentioned that it could take " several days " to describe what happened to ramsey .
JonBenét Ramsey killed John Mark Karr in 1996.