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A deathbed confession is an admittance or confession when someone is nearing death, or on their "death bed". This confession may help alleviate any guilt. Many people keep secrets for long periods of time, though most are harmless. These 15 deathbed confessions, however, will send shivers down your spine.
This is also known as Online Behavioural Advertising. You can find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out here. Deathbed confessions can be used to re-open cold cases to benefit the victim's family. Bridget Sullivan, who had been employed as a housekeeper by the family of Lizzie Borden , died in Butte, Montana in , where she allegedly gave a deathbed confession to her sister, stating that she had changed her testimony on the stand in order to protect Lizzie from being convicted of the murders of her father and step-mother.
Many decades after the disappearance of a year-old girl named Emma Alice Smith in Sussex , in , a man named David Wright claimed his deceased great-aunt Lillian Smith, a sister of Emma Alice Smith, had told her niece that in the s she had taken a death bed confession from a man claiming that he had murdered Emma Alice on her way to the train station in Horam. The case was reopened, not to find a killer, but to find the body of the young girl to give her a proper burial and give her relatives some closure. Police concluded the pair had probably ended up in the Republic of Ireland.
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After eating lunch at a lodge, the women went for a hike through St. They organized search parties to look for the three women, who were all wives of corporate executives. Their bodies were found two days later in a cave by a camp supervisor and four teenagers. Their hands had been bound with twine , and they had been beaten to death with a frozen tree branch and then dragged into the cave.
He had scratches on him and there was blood on his jacket. He explained the scratches were from grooming his sideburns and the blood on the jacket was raccoon blood. He stained it earlier when he was hunting. Weger cooperated with the police, gave them his jacket, answered all their questions, and even passed lie detector tests. Eight months after the murder, Weger confessed. He then led the police and the press through a walk- through of the crime.
At his trial for the murder of Lillian Oetting, he said that the confession was coerced and the walk-through was coordinated by the lead detective on the case. Nevertheless, he was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. He did not go to trial for the murder of the other two women. Since his trial, Weger has maintained his innocence. There have also been several attempts to exonerate him. The motion also revealed that someone had possibly made a deathbed confession regarding the murder of the three women.
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He explained the scratches were from grooming his sideburns and the blood on the jacket was raccoon blood. He told me that he only felt guilty about one thing he'd done. Cream was a serial killer, but he murdered by poison, often wasn't even there when the victim died and usually did it for financial gain. There have also been several attempts to exonerate him. A deathbed murder confession:
When the officer got to her bedside, she said when she was young, she was hanging out in a state park near Utica with some friends. After they were dead, they dragged the bodies.
Weger has continued to maintain his innocence from behind bars. He has applied for parole several times, but has always been denied. At the time of this article, he is years-old.
He is the third longest imprisoned inmate in Illinois. His lawyer now says DNA technology has advanced and the DNA can be tested, but the courts have not granted permission to do so. On February 7, , a fire broke out at a three story townhouse in Brooklyn.
The fire ended up killing year-old Elizabeth Kinsey and her five children, who ranged in age from 9-years-old to 9-months-old. The fire marshal determined that, based on the burn patterns, an accelerant was used, even though no trace of an accelerant was found. He based his theory on the fact that the patterns indicated that there were two fires started in one room.
The police interviewed other people in the townhouse and the landlord said she saw three men enter before the fire started and then leave right afterwards. This led to year-old Raymond Mora, year-old Amaury Villalobos, and year-old William Vasquez being arrested the day of the fire. They were convicted in and given life sentences. Mora died in in prison at the age of Villalobos and Vasquez were paroled in In April , they started to look into the arson and after 10 months of research they concluded the men were innocent.
First off, what experts know about house fires has changed since the early s. This makes it look like someone poured accelerant around the room and lit multiple fires.
The second problem was Hannah Quick. She died in Her mother said that they were completely innocent. All three men were exonerated in December He was a good student, but in the fall he had been arrested for possession of stolen goods. The district attorney made a deal with him that they would drop the charges if he testified that a fellow student, year-old Russell Smrekar, gave him the stolen goods.
Mansfield decided to take the deal. They got in contact with her husband, who left work and went directly home.
In the garage, he found a. But Ruth Martin was nowhere to be found. Two days later, her car was found abandoned in Bloomington, Illinois. The police found more blood in the trunk. On October 9, , a call came into the dispatch in Lincoln because shots were fired in a quiet neighborhood. The police went to the home of Jay and Robin Fry, who were both years-old. They had been gunned down with a shotgun. Sadly, Robin was three months pregnant with their first child. At the time, the police had no idea that the two disappearances and the double murder were connected.