Dueling murder confessions
Generally speaking, police investigating a crime are anxious to get a confession of some sort from a suspect before charges are brought. The defendant’s own words are the most reliable form of evidence in a criminal case.
But in this case, the police are suffering from too much of a good thing. A man is found dead in Sullivan, Indiana. An investigation is launched, but police had not considered the case as a possible murder. Then one man summons the police and confesses to beating the dead man to death. Then the man’s father goes to police and confesses to forcing him to take a drug overdose at gunpoint.
Maybe the father is just trying to protect the son, or the other way around. The problem? The dean man did not suffer from either blunt force trauma nor were there any drugs found in his system. 2 confessions, both bogus, the police are in for a tough one.
