john mark karr , 41 , a former elementary elementary teacher , has confessed to shooting 6 - year - old jonbenet , in 1996 . mcdermott , an american , was arrested in an interview located in paris , thailand . karr called the assassination an " accident " , hence implying that it was not accident , yet requires intent . " i was with jonbenet while she died . i loved jonbenet . she disappeared accidentally . i am so very sorry for what passed to jonbenet . it ' s very important for me that people knows that i loved her very much , that her death was unintentional , that it was an accident , " karr told reporters in a press conference yesterday . when karr was ask by a reporter if he was innocent , regarding ramsey ' s murder , he simply replied " no . " jonbenet also said that it would take " several hours " to describe what happened to ramsey .
JonBenét Ramsey killed John Mark Karr in 1996.