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(From CNN News)
Byline: Nancy Grace
KARR: JonBenet. God, what a powerful thing to just be alone with that little girl, that doll face. You know, she was just so incredible in mind and so unreal in death. She`s just so alive. She`s so alive. She`s so alive. She`s so alive. I mean, she`s wonderful. Who else was I going to share that with? I`ve never driven by her house and said, "There`s Polly Klaas` house. I want that, because I want her -- you know, I want her -- I mean, I want her so bad. (END VIDEO CLIP)
GRACE: Do you hear that, Sonoma sheriff`s department? Do you hear that, Judge? It`s on you now to do something.
Let`s go out to the lines. Let`s go to Terry in Maine. Hi, Terry.
CALLER: Hi, how are you?
GRACE: Good, thank you, dear. What`s your question?
CALLER: Well, I`m just wondering if his confessionary statements were based on getting extradited from Thailand. Did he do something in Thailand that has made him want to leave that country, that he might suffer more severe punishment had he stayed and been found dead?
GRACE: Terry, when I first heard he was confessing to the murder of JonBenet Ramsey in a Bangkok jail, I assumed wrongly that he had been arrested for some infraction there. For quite some time, U.S. authorities had been watching him. And apparently, he had began to groom a 5-year-old little girl there and was seen inappropriately speaking with her.
But he was not in jail. He had not been arrested in Thailand for any infraction. He was simply being deported. Now, a lot of people will tell you he was not in custody when he was on that plane, but he was. Simple deportation, then extradited -- these are legal terms -- from California to Colorado. That was not the reason he made the confession.
Out to Michelle in South Carolina, hi, Michelle.
CALLER: Hi, Nancy. My question has to do with this sex change operation that`s... (CROSSTALK)
GRACE: Oh, good lord. CALLER: ... go under. Is this something these pervs do? Is it pretty common? I`ve not heard of it. Or do you think he actually wanted to be more like these girls that he idolized? He says he wanted Polly Klaas` house,…