Former JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect John Mark Karr is a sexual predator who apparently still believes he was involved in the girl’s death, says a psychiatrist who recently interviewed him.

Dr. Keith Ablow, a forensic psychiatrist who has a syndicated TV talk show with Telepictures, said Friday on NBC’s “Today” show that Karr is a danger to society now that he’s free.

“We are dealing with a textbook case of pedophilia,” Ablow told “Today’s” Matt Lauer.

Ablow denied a report in The New York Post that Karr was given as many as six drinks before the videotaped interview and wasn’t aware he was being recorded. “He was stone-cold sober. … He sat with me for four hours and didn’t miss a beat. … He was served no alcohol,” Ablow said.

The psychiatrist also said neither he nor Telepictures paid Karr for the interview, snippets of which were aired Friday on “Today.”  The full interview with Karr will be broadcast on "The Dr. Keith Ablow Show" on Tuesday.

Karr, 41, was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand, on Aug. 16 and flown back to the United States after being identified as a suspect in the December 1996 slaying of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey. The former child beauty queen was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colo.

Karr told reporters at the time of his arrest that he was with Ramsey the night she died and called her death an “accident.”

Boulder prosecutors decided not to pursue charges against Karr after DNA tests failed to link him to the crime scene. Karr was then transported to Sonoma County, Calif., to face unrelated misdemeanor child pornography charges related to pictures he allegedly had on a computer that investigators seized in 2001. Those charges were dropped after Sonoma County authorities said they lost the computer.

After two months behind bars, Karr walked free on Oct. 5. Ablow, who taped a four-hour interviewed with Karr in the week after his release, says the former schoolteacher comes across as a narcissistic pedophile who craves attention.

“This man wants to present one face to the public, and when he becomes more comfortable with me over the course of hours, another John Mark Karr emerges, and that’s a very concerning John Mark Karr,” Ablow said.

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