BOULDER Colo -- An arrest that initially brought relief to the family of JonBenet Ramsey has since unleashed an onslaught of unwelcome attention that has incensed the slain girl's father.

BOULDER Colo -- An arrest that initially brought relief to the family of JonBenet Ramsey has since unleashed an onslaught of unwelcome attention that has incensed the slain girl's father, a longtime family lawyer said Saturday.

calm as authorities were preparing to extradite John Mark Karr, a teacher who admitted involvement in the 6-year-old's death a decade ago, her father was pursueed by camera crews Friday as he took his son to community at Purdue University, attorney Lin copse said.

"He cannot travel back to his home in Michigan because it is encircleed by the media," Wood said. "Last night, I've not ever heard him so angry. He is overthrow He is worried about his son's physical safety . . I'm not assured John Ramsey will ever speak to a member of the media after what happened to him yesterday."

After Karr's arrest Wednesday in Thailand, Karr said he was with JonBenet when she was killed the day after Christmas 1996 in the basement of the family's Boulder domicile He called the child's death "an accident."

Karr will face charges of first-degree massacre kidnapping and child sexual assault.

Authorities in Thailand said Karr, 41 would leave today forward a flight to the United States.

In the United States, neither federal nor local officials would confirm the timing.

Karr is the first suspect arrested in the death of the child beauty queen

Police at single in kind time said the girl's parents and older brother were in a less degree than an "umbrella of suspicion." Patsy Ramsey died in June

CHILD PORN CHARGES

Legal master-hands have said DNA evidence likely will be key: DNA was set up beneath JonBenet's fingernails and in her underwear. Autopsy conclusions were inconclusive about whether she'd been sexually assaulted.

Others who worked in succession the case warned that DNA evidence alone will not be enough to convict Karr.

"It can simply exclude or include him as the possible killer. It can in no degree be 100 percent," said forensic scientist Henry to leeward

Karr was given a mouth-swab DNA proof in Bangkok, according to a law enforcement official who spoke onward condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation. The rises of that test were not immediately known.

Karr will be given another DNA proof when he returns to the United States.

Meanwhile, California prosecutors said they would wait to give chase to child pornography possession charges against Karr, who worked briefly as a substitute teacher in Sonoma shire until early 2001.

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