A former primary school teacher has been arrested in Thailand over the slaying of six-year-old US beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey nearly a decade ago.
Investigators arrested 41-year-old John Mark Carr in Thailand yesterday and will send him back to the United States within weeks.
Boulder District Attorney Mary Lacy said the arrest followed several months of work. She disclosed no details about the suspect, ahead of a scheduled news conference.
CBS reported that the suspect, a 41-year-old second-grade teacher, would be brought returned to the United States this weekend.
Ramsey family lawyer Lin Wood said in Atlanta that he had been told that the suspect once lived in Conyers, Georgia, outside of Atlanta.
He would not comment on whether the Ramseys knew him, and he said he knew nothing else about the man.
Wood said the Ramseys learned about the suspect a least a month before JonBenet's mother, Patsy Ramsey, died in June.
"It's been a very long 10 years, and I'm just sorry Patsy isn't here for me to hug her neck," Wood said.
The girl was found beaten and strangled in the basement of the family's home in Boulder on December 26, 1996.
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