Twisted pedophile claims he knows JonBenét Ramsey’s killer and changed murder scene
John Mark Karr claims little girls death was "an accident"
A TWISTED paedophile claims he knows the identity of JonBenét Ramsey's killer - and says he staged her murder scene to throw cops off the scent of the real culprit.
John Mark Karr has given a tell-all interview to Investigation Discovery in the US, taking part in a three part series called JonBenét: An American Murder Mystery.
He insists her death was an accident, and that he tried to save her on the night of December 26th 1996.
Speaking out, Karr, 51, said: “Nobody wanted that little girl to die that night— nobody. Her death was an accident. I was with her when she died. But I was not the person who caused it.”
He explained there was a "panic" after the little girl died and added she was not discovered in the place she lost her life.
“How she was found, that’s not how she died. Where she was found in that basement is not where she died."
Karr added her lifeless body was “tampered” in a bid to cover up who the killer was.
“Something happened to her [and I] had to take care of it,” Karr said.
“I have always been able to fix things. Nobody came in there and did a paedo-erotic thing to that little girl, but it was made to look as though it was done that way.”
He went on to claim the kidnap letter which was found was fake.
He said it was a prop to make her death look like a “botched kidnapping.”
Karr has been forced to change his name several times since the murder and he now lives in Thailand.
He refused to name the killer or detail the "accident."
Karr was cleared of her death because his tissue samples and body fluids did not match that found on Ramsey's body.
But, oddly, he insisted during his interview the DNA evidence discovered by authorities “has absolutely no connection to that little girl’s death.”
No one has every been brought to justice for Ramsey's death.
He said he would not reveal details of who was responsible for fear of them taking retribution: “I’m going to protect every person that needs to be protected.
“Maybe God up in Heaven will forgive me for some of the things that I did to help other people!”
Meanwhile, on the 20th anniversary of the little girl's death Dr Phil McGraw has done a candid interview with Ramsey’s “socially awkward” brother Burke.
Speaking on the on Monday he talked about the computer security analysts reactions, which included smiling and laughing: “He is smiling. People are going to see this throughout the entire interview, [a] really unusual affect, either smiling or laughing,” Dr. Phil explained Monday morning. “This is a very socially awkward young man — but understand, from the time this happened, his parents, depending on your interpretation, either protected him or hid him.
"He has not had the social contact that most kids have growing up.”
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He revealed Burke “knew his anonymity was gone” and he “wanted to control the narrative.”
Dr. Phil said his three part chat would see Ramsey's brother talking about key parts of the investigation:“He’s gonna make a shocking admission about this mystery footprint (found at the scene) that people speculate about so much.
“He’s going to talk about the incidents of violence, of hitting his sister in the head earlier with a golf club. … He’s going to talk and give a very significant answer about … a bowl of pineapple that was found on the table in the house that was not there when everyone went to bed.
"Pineapple was found during the autopsy in [JonBenét’s] stomach. He’s going to talk very specifically about how that pineapple came to be in his little sister’s stomach the night that she was found dead.”
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