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True Crime This Week: False Confessions


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In 2006, John Mark Karr shocked the world by claiming he killed JonBenét Ramsey—only for DNA evidence to prove otherwise. Fourteen years earlier, 19-year-old Juan Rivera confessed to killing 11-year-old Holly Staker in Illinois. He was convicted—three times—despite clear evidence of innocence. This week, we investigate how false confessions happen… and how they ruin lives.

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