Jon Benet Ramsey Alleged Killer Confesses: Claims He 'Loved Her'

(Update) The alleged killer of Jon Benet Ramsey, John Mark Karr, has confessed to the crime and claimed that it was an accident.  He also said that he 'loved her' in a question and answer session.

Jon Benet Ramsey Alleged Killer Confesses

"I was with Jon Benet when she died," Karr told reporters afterward, visibly nervous and stuttering. "Her death was an accident."
Asked if he was innocent of the crime, Karr said: "No."

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Karr will be taken within the week to Colorado, where he will face charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping and child sexual assault.
Karr told The Associated Press: "I am so very sorry for what happened to Jon Benet. It's very important for me that everyone knows that I love her very much, that her death was unintentional, that it was an accident."

There is a serious twist already in the confession from the alleged killer.  The suspect's ex-wife said she was with him in Alabama at the time of Jon Benet's 1996 death.

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Karr's ex-wife, Lara Karr, told KGO-TV in California that she was with her former husband in Alabama at the time of Jon Benet's killing and she does not believe her former husband was involved in the homicide.
She said her ex-husband spent a lot of time studying the cases of Ramsey and Polly Klaas, who was abducted from her Petaluma, Calif., home and slain in 1993.

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The arrest:

"We arrested him yesterday at an apartment not far from my office after having followed him for 21 days," Immigration Police chief Lieutenant-General Suwat Tumroungsiskul head of Thailand's immigration police told Reuters. "During the arrest, we were accompanied by American officers. He has been in and out of Thailand a couple of times and the arrest warrant was issued just a couple of days ago," Suwat told reporters.

Karr confessed to the killing after his arrest Wednesday at his downtown Bangkok guesthouse by Thai and American authorities, said Suwat.  He said Karr insisted his crime was not first-degree murder but that Jon Benet died during a kidnapping attempt that went awry.
"He said it was second-degree murder. He said it was unintentional," Suwat said.

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Police said Karr had applied for jobs at Bangkok's dozens of international schools. They had said earlier one had hired him.

"People like him are dangerous. We have criminals from all over the world running away from their home countries to look for teaching jobs in Thailand," Suwat said.

--Robert Hernandez withj wire and broadcast reports