The police culture of a previous era persisted. ibid. BBC news
Four years after Pace, a case in Cardiff would publicly expose the dangers of a police service that still chased confessions. On Valentine’s Day 1988 20 year old Lynette White was found stabbed to death in her flat in Butetown near the Cardiff docks. 10 months later her ex-partner Stephen Miller was arrested on suspicion of murder and questioned at Cardiff police station. After five days of interrogation he confessed to Lynette White’s murder … At his trial Miller was found guilty of murder along with two other men both implicated by his taped confession … ‘They’ve become known as the Cardiff 3: serving a prison sentence for life for a murder they say they didn’t commit.’ ibid. television news
Texas 1983: I killed them in every way there is except poison. The Confession Killer I: Everything Except Poison, Lucas, Netflix 2019
Either they found the world’s worst serial killer or it was the biggest hoax in American criminal justice history. ibid. dude
After that I cut her up in tiny little pieces. ibid. Lucas’ confession to rozzers
Judge, what are we gonna do about these other hundred women I killed? ibid.
He was a pitiful looking gentleman, really. ibid. journalist
Henry Lucas grew up in rural Virginia in a dilapidated little house. ibid.
Some temporal lobe damage, some frontal lobe [damage] … It looks to me as though you have a serial killer. ibid. expert
He seemed to respond better with photos of the victim. The Confession Killer II: Make It Strawberry, rozzer
He was looking through the books that police departments sent in to the taskforce. They had crime scene photos. Well the next day in came the police: he knew what highway they were on, what the house looked like … ibid. journalist
He was trying to commit legal suicide. ibid. brief
This man had talked his way into a death penalty case and been found guilty of capital murder. ibid.
I told my supervisor, This is all going to come crashing down. The Confession Killer III: War in Waco, female rozzer
When you typed in Henry Lee Lucas into the computer for the national criminal records, someone did not want other law enforcement people to know where Henry was on certain days. ibid. district attorney
Henry Lee Lucas: Mass murderer or massive hoax? He is said to have killed more than 210 people during an eight-year crime spree in nearly every state. But new evidence suggests Henry Lee Lucas may have conned lawmen in 26 states into accepting bogus confessions. ibid. Dallas Times Herald article Hugh Aynesworth
I’d like to state that I haven’t done these crimes … Those are people that wanted cases cleared. They would show you pictures of the crimes. ibid. public confession
At the same time they were arresting me, fifteen agents descended on the house. ibid. Feazell
He did not cut me up and throw my body parts everywhere. ibid. Becky Powell, CNN interview
Henry Lee Lucas admits to confessing to over 600 murders including the one that sent him to death row. The Confession Killer IV: All the Damn Lies, television news report
It was clearly the result of their relationship and this very very sick man that was being manipulated by the sheriff. ibid. expert
That sheriff he wanted everything he could get, and I gave it to him. ibid. Lucas
I don’t give a damn if I was executed tomorrow. ibid.
Henry Lee Lucas did not know what the truth was. ibid. author
He [Lucas] died of natural causes. ibid. victim’s relative
At least I know who did it. The Confession Killer V: Not One Shred of Evidence, victim’s relative comments on DNA cracking of cold case: not Henry
Henry Lee Lucas was fed information in my mom’s case. ibid.
Priest: Do you feel anything for what you’ve done?
De Niro: I don’t. I mean maybe because I’m here now talking to you that in itself is an attempt to … The Irishman 2019 starring Robert de Niro & Al Pacino & Joe Pesci & Ray Romano & Bobby Cannavale & Anna Paquin & Lucy Gallina & Stephen Graham & Harvey Keitel & Stepehanie Kurtzuba & Katherine Narducci et al, director Martin Scorsese, confession
My name is Tyson Fury and I am a flawed character. I suffer with mental health problems: depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder. And I have achieved great things. Tyson Fury: The Gypsy King, Tyson’s confession, ITV 2020
He confessed to 39 murders. The Confessions of Thomas Quick, Channel 4 2020, opening comments
One of the strangest people I have met so far … He had expressed feelings of sadism and paedophilia. ibid. Swedish psychiatrist
He killed like everybody. Girls and boys. And he like moved like a shadow through Sweden. ibid. journalist
I was using alcohol, I was using benzodiazepines, and above all I was using trichloroethylene. ibid. Quick
He wildly started stabbing me. I tried to get away and tried to escape to the corridor. I was severely injured because I was stabbed 12 times. ibid. victim
On November 16th 1994, Thomas Quick was found guilty of the murder of Charles Zelmanovits. ibid. caption
On January 25th 1996 Thomas Quick was found guilty of the murder of Janny & Marinus Stegehuis. ibid.
On June 20th 2001, 8 years after he confessed, Thomas Quick was found guilty of the murder of Johan Asplund. This was his eighth conviction. ibid.
And from the day when I was completely sober, I went into a seven-year silence. ibid. Quick
Thomas Quick: is this a Swedish legal scandal? Quick described as Sweden’s worst serial killer denied his guilt in all 39 cases in a TV documentary broadcast last night. In the programme estates that he confessed to the crimes in order to get attention from the therapists and to get medication. ibid. Swedish TV
… the more pleased the therapist was. And therefore the stories became more and more grotesque … ibid. Quick
One of this nation’s most prominent evangelical pastors is making stunning new admissions about his private life: the Reverend Ted Haggard said in an interview today that he bought crystal meth from Mike Jones, the male prostitute who says Haggard paid him for sex. News bulletin 3 November 2006
1927 ... Staff at the left luggage office noticed a particularly unpleasant smell coming from one of the trunks that had been there for some time. They prised it open and found a dismembered body of a woman. Great Crimes & Trials s3e18: The Trunk Murders, BBC 1996
Anything that could identify her had been removed. ibid.
[John] Robinson immediately began to confess. He admitted picking up a woman who had accosted him at Victoria Station and taking her back to his office. ibid.
He admitted most of the details of the case against him but repeated his insistence that the woman had died accidentally from a knock to the head. ibid.
Only seven years later and also on the railways of southern England trunks were in the news again: This time it was in the resort town of Brighton. On 17th June 1934 staff at the station left luggage office were appalled by the smell coming from one of the trunks. They opened it and found the torso and arms of a young woman. Other stations were alerted and the next day a case containing the legs was found at Kings Cross Station in London. ibid.
By the evening of the 17th Mancini had been charged with the murders. It now emerged that his real name was Cecil Lois England and that he had a string of minor convictions and aliases in London. ibid.
They [the jury] were back in two and a half hours and found him not guilty. ibid.
In November 1976 Mancini, who had been living quietly with his third wife, suddenly confessed in the News of the World that he had indeed murdered Violet. ibid.
The other Brighton trunk murder was never solved. ibid.
If you do confess and confess in full, every secret you ever passed, every death you caused, if you do that, then you will be allowed to return home to live out your days in peace and anonymity. Nice country cottage. Village cricket team. Friendly local pub. Where no-one, not even your family and especially not your children, will have the slightest idea of the things you’ve done. However, anything less than a full confession and then you will be tried for treason. When they will scream for your blood … A Spy Among Friends III: Allegory of the Catholic Faith, Elliott