A In 1957, a man approached a young girl in Illinois and asked if she wanted a piggyback. That was the last time she was seen alive

And in 1971, a man known as "DB Cooper" hijacked a plane, stole $200,000, and disappeared without a trace.

Both of these cases involved shocking confessions that were made with dying breaths.

TW: child death, kidnapping, reference to sexual assault

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