An American primary school teacher is to be extradited from Thailand and charged with the 1996 murder of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey.
John Mark Karr (41), who was arrested in Bangkok yesterday, admitted killing the young girl but denies first degree murder.
He was arrested on a US federal warrant - which sought his arrest for murder, kidnapping and sexual assault of a child - in the presence of FBI officers after being followed for three weeks as he sought a job teaching English in Bangkok.
Mr Karr claimed he drugged, had sex with victim before "accidentally" killing her, according to a Thai police general.
Some reports say Mr Karr had just been hired by one of Bangkok's dozens of international schools.
A US official said Mr Karr would be extradited quickly from a country where the process can take weeks.
JonBenet was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her home on December 26th, 1996. At the time of her murder, a note was left on a staircase of the family home saying she had been kidnapped by a "small foreign faction" who wanted $118,000 in ransom.
JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy, came under suspicion during the initial investigation, and in 2002 they reached an out-of-court cash settlement with a former detective who wrote a book accusing them of murdering their own daughter.
Patsy Ramsey died of ovarian cancer in June. The couple had been informed of the progress of the investigation that led to Mr Karr's arrest.
No charges were ever filed in the decade since JonBenet was killed, but the murder generated intense media coverage drawn by JonBenet's success in youth beauty pageants, the family's wealth and mysterious elements of the case.