I'm not sure what motivated the unfortunate Mr. Karr to make that claim, assuming it's an untrue claim. If he ismaking his story up, I agree with what Daima suggested earlier: that he was motivated to get out of Thailand, the country he has been in. He also seems clearly motivated to grab his 15 minutes of fame and appears to be relishing the spotlight. Assuming he's not a DNA match and they can't find beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt-worthy circumstantial evidence, he won't have risked much simply by making a public confession. They really need concrete scientific evidence to indict and convict him of capital or first-degree murder. He'll still face his pre-existing child porn charges--and he may get some slight punishment for making a false confession--but he doesn't risk losing his life for the false confession alone. Again, I think everyone's eager to see what comes out of that DNA testing. If he is a match and the police can put him in Boulder on the night of that murder, I hope he fries.

On the subject of child beauty pageants, has anyone seen the movie "Little Miss Sunshine" yet? We went to see that just a few hours ago, and I loved it. There's a darling little girl in the movie, headed to just such a pageant event with her wacky family. Go see it and see if you don't like the way the film handled "differences," both in her family and in the child's own unique beauty.