Les Jones

True Crime > False Confessions

There are questions about John Mark Karr's confession and whether it's truthful. Slate has a piece about false confessions in famous murders. According to the article two other people have confessed to JonBenet's murder. (And I'm agnostic on whether Karr is or isn't guilty, though I'm leaning slightly towards saying he did it, based on his unique history. Time will tell.)

The case I know the most about, the JFK assassination, had its share of confessors. One of the more interesting stories was from Rick White, who claimed his father, Roscoe White, helped Lee Harvey Oswald kill Kennedy.

What made the story compelling was that Roscoe White worked for the Dallas police department, had been a Marine like Oswald, and that he and Oswald both served in Marine Air Wing 1 in Yokosuka, Japan at the same time, and had sailed to Yokosuka together on the same voyage. Ricky even had a photograph that he claimed showed Oswald and Roscoe White together. You can read more about it in I Was Mandarin and Who Speaks for Roscoe White?

P.S. For anything related to the JFK assassination I recommend John McAdams' JFK assassination page.