Top 10 Killers Who Confessed Their Crimes
Sometimes guilt can eat away at someone their whole life, to the point that once on their deathbed they decide to empty their bag and confess something. This is the case with certain criminals and in particular killers who have decided to confess to crimes in their last moments and we will see some examples of this. Yeah, it's not super gay as a subject, and the excuse of remorse doesn't really matter. 1. François Verove, the hail business The story of the French rapist and killer known as the hailed remained a mystery for many years until it was resolved in 2021 almost 34 years after the investigation was opened. It is a new action in the investigation which consisted in taking the DNA of gendarmes and police officers in activity at the time which pushed the former gendarme and police officer François Verove to commit suicide by leaving behind him a letter of confession in which he confessed to several crimes and to be the famous hailed (which we give you the tips to know about the Hailed ). 2. Paul Michael Stephani, the killer with the sobbing voice The " weepy-voice killer " (in its original language) is a serial killer from the United States who used to call the police after his crimes to confess his murders with a "tearful" voice.
Never identified for several years, he was one day arrested by the police for a murder he was in the process of committing without being suspected of being the notorious killer. But knowing that he had terminal cancer that he had just been diagnosed, Stephani decided to confess all his other murders to the police when he was arrested, making it possible to put an end to this hunt.
3. Shaun, the palliative care patient who confesses everything to doctors
In New Zealand, the story of patient Shaun reignited the debate on the issue of patient-doctor privilege when the terminally ill man confessed to having been a hitman in his youth. After stopping this activity he spent his life multiplying good deeds, for example donating colossal sums to charities. But despite his "efforts" Shaun never managed to overcome his guilt and decided to confess his murders before dying to the doctors who cared for him. The latter kept his secret for a while but pushed him to write a letter to the police to confess everything and shortly after his port the case was finally closed.
4. Ella Margaret Gibson, the actress who killed a director
This sordid 1920s Hollywood story began when one morning the lifeless body of director William Desmond Taylor was found shot in the back. For years we tried to find the culprit by going through every suspect and even the family until finally the case was dropped. But one day in 1964, actress Ella Margaret Gibson confessed to being the notorious murderer when she had just collapsed from a heart attack.
5. Christopher Smith, 20 years old hiding the rape and murder of a woman
It was in 1975 that the body of a prostitute mother was found who had been raped and whose murder was attributed to serial killer Peter Sutcliffe (active in the area at the time). The problem was, Sutcliffe's DNA didn't match completely and it wasn't until 20 years later when a man named Christopher Smith was arrested for sexual assault that his DNA was found to match.
The man later died of cancer, leaving behind a letter in which he spoke of guilt and said "to live with this for 20 years", which corresponded to the date of the murder. The police decided to treat the letter as a confession and to close the case.
6. Mark Read, the gangster who boasted too much to sell his book
Jailed for 23 years for several crimes (but no murders), gangster Mark Read also wrote a book called How to Kill Friends and Influence People . Playing on false confidences of murders to "tell it" in prison and increase the sales of his book, it was when he was diagnosed with cancer that he decided to confess to real murders by giving details as evidence. Three murders dating from before his incarceration and a fourth which took place during his imprisonment (the victim was a child killer co-detainee). Finally he wasn't kidding.
7. Henry Alexander, a member of the Klu Klux Klan who admits to killing a young man after years of suspicion
In 1957, a young black man driving a truck was arrested by four members of the Klu Klux Klan who beat him up and forced him to jump off a bridge. The poor man dies. Almost nine years later, taken with remorse, one of the four murderers denounces his three friends by saying that the victim had attacked a white woman and that it was a revenge operation.
The four members will never be really worried by justice, for lack of evidence and it is at the end of his life that one of them, Henry Alexander, confesses to his wife that not only it is they who have killed the poor man but that in addition they had totally invented the story of the aggression of the woman. NO KIDDING.
8. The unknown man and the murder of the prostitute
One day in 2015 in Canada, a 95-year-old man walked into a police station to confess to the murder of a prostitute committed in London in 1946. The man in question confessed that after a financial mess with the victim he panicked and killed her with a bullet before disappearing into the streets. At 95 years old and suffering from an illness, he decided to surrender to the Canadian authorities who, after checking with those in London if the case was credible, initiated the steps to have him tried in England and close the case.
9. Samuel Little, serial killer to the largest number of victims in the United States
Imprisoned for several years for three murders, Samuel Little decided to confess an extremely large number of additional murders at the end of his life. Seeing that he would not get out of prison anyway and die soon, Little said he did not kill 3 people, but 93. Giving details on a significant number of victims the authorities realized that he was indeed telling the truth and that many unsolved cases could be closed. He then became the most "prolific" serial killer in the United States, a record that shivers down your spine.
10. James Wahsington, the killer caught at his own game
James Washington's story is funny enough in that he was serving a 15-year prison sentence for attempted murder when he suffered a heart attack. Thinking he was living his last moments, he confessed to the murder of a woman committed several years earlier. The only problem for him: he did not fully recover from his heart attack and survived. Suddenly he tried to change his version of the facts by going back on his statement but it was too late, so we extended his prison sentence, because it was indeed a confession.
