John Mark Karrand JonBenet Ramsey

The absence of professionalism, critical thinking and investigative journalism in the U.S. is demonstrated in the bizarre and too-public sturm over suspect John Mark Karr.
Boulder, Colorado, District Attorney Mary Lacy will have to change her name back to Mary Keenan once Karr is determined to be a JonBenet channeler, instead of a murderer.
Every video I've seen has Karr stating that he was with Jon Benet when she died and her death was an accident. He never said that he killed her, probably because he didn't. Perhaps he believes he was there in spirit.
But let's turn to the more important law enforcement and legal communications facet of this farce.
If Prosecutor Lacy is investigating this mess and wanted Karr back she had absolutely no business holding a news conference. A simple statement should have been issued such as: "Our office conducts hundreds of investigations each year. Often these matters are never public and we do not confirm or deny whether we are, at any moment, investigating any individual unless and until some public charge is lodged."
Any other response was improper.
If Lacy has holdback information tieing Karr to the crime then she should be quiet. If Karr ends up being a kook that silence could save Lacy's job.
If you spend your life obsessively investigating the Jon Benet murder you might glean some information that is not public and not holdback but good enough to pique some official interest. Methinks that is what happened with Karr.
When will public officials learn that a media request is not a subpoena?
Who is the Homeland Security official in Thailand giving an interview, or the men accompanying Karr who also helped drag him into the sad Thai news conference?
When published, "Best Practice in Media Relations 2006" will not include this case.