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From deathbed revelations to courtroom admissions, truth can be more disturbing than fiction. Join us as we count down the most notorious confessions ever made! Our list includes chilling admissions from serial killers, high-profile public figures, and everyday people whose shocking revelations changed history forever. Which confession do you find most disturbing?
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00:00It was a relief not to have to keep such a gigantic secret that I had kept for so many years.
00:08Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most notorious confessions made throughout history.
00:14Yes or no, did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance?
00:19Yes.
00:21Number 30, H.H. Holmes.
00:23This admittance cemented him as America's first serial killer.
00:27H.H. Holmes dabbled in plenty of petty crime throughout his life, but he had a darker side.
00:44Multiple people had gone missing, leading officials to search his building after he had been arrested for horse theft.
00:49Their efforts revealed bone shards and burned pieces of clothing, but it wasn't enough to convict him.
00:55He was found guilty and sentenced to death in 1895 for killing his associate Benjamin Peitzel, which was when the truth came out.
01:02Holmes confessed to 27 homicides across North America, with his drugstore, the now aptly named Murder Castle, serving as a base.
01:10What Holmes has done is to create really a killing machine, a factory for getting these bodies,
01:16for harvesting these individuals who innocently have come into contact with him.
01:22The true scope of his crimes shocked the nation and made his execution in 1896 even more of a spectacle.
01:31Number 29, Mark Chopper Reed.
01:33When someone has nothing left to lose, the truth finally comes out.
01:38Emotionally, how are you coping with the thought of dying?
01:40Oh, it doesn't even hit me emotionally.
01:43Australian criminal Mark Chopper Reed spent most of his adult life behind bars,
01:47and was served a life sentence after shooting someone with the intent to kill in 1992.
01:52He remained notorious throughout his sentence, keeping the public's attention with commercials and even rap albums.
01:5820 years after his final sentence, he was diagnosed with liver cancer, and the prognosis wasn't good.
02:04It was then that he gave one final interview, where he revealed that he had murdered an additional four people that he'd never been tried for.
02:11Not any remorse, any sort of reflection on that?
02:13No, no, no, none at all. None at all. None at all. Absolutely none at all.
02:19The interview aired just weeks after he passed away, causing him to shock the nation one last time.
02:25Number 28, Manti Teo.
02:27Catfishing happens often, but it's rare when it happens on a national scale.
02:31In 2012, Manti Teo received nationwide support after he revealed that his grandmother and online girlfriend had both perished in the same weekend.
02:40Of course, he was the star player whose heartbreaking loss of his girlfriend just before a big game made national headlines
02:47and made Manti Teo the individual story of the college football season.
02:51What he and the rest of the country didn't know was that the latter never even existed.
02:56An investigation by the sports blog Deadspin revealed the truth, that he had been tricked by someone he considered a friend.
03:02And according to the sports website Deadspin, which broke the story,
03:06Linnea Kakua was a hoax, and the picture we all saw of her was actually another woman,
03:12who was very much alive, and says she doesn't even know Teo.
03:15Naya Tuyesosopo later confessed to concocting the ruse as a result of her unrequited feelings,
03:21and that she'd used her cousin's voice and an acquaintance's photos to succeed.
03:24The shocking story was proof that in most cases, you never know who's on the other end of the screen,
03:30or if they're being honest.
03:32Number 27, Carla Homolka.
03:34When her husband, Paul Bernardo, was first arrested in 1993 on multiple charges,
03:39she went to disgusting lengths to exonerate herself.
03:42What was certain, however, was that together, Bernardo and Homolka were a deadly duo.
03:48To secure a plea bargain, Carla Homolka went on the record to claim that she had been forced
03:52to participate in his crimes under the threat of physical abuse.
03:55This allowed her to only be charged with manslaughter rather than murder.
03:59After her initial story, multiple recordings came to light revealing she took part in the drugging,
04:04sexual assault, and slaying of four women, including her younger sister.
04:08I think that the women in this country, in particular, never believed a word she said.
04:16Didn't like the deal that they made, and had a feeling that there was more to Carla Homolka than meets the eye.
04:25Despite the mountain of evidence, her charges didn't change, as her end of the bargain had been met.
04:30She served her time and was freed in 2005, but the case remains controversial to this day.
04:36Number 26, Richard Ramirez.
04:39When the Night Stalker had reportedly been identified and arrested, no one knew for sure that they had the right man.
04:44The Night Stalker killed at least 13 times, 13 people who were awakened in the night to face death.
04:50At least 15 others survived his brutal attacks.
04:53That is, until he offered that information himself.
04:57Richard Ramirez had reportedly confessed multiple times to his crimes, with varying levels of remorse.
05:02His first was tearful.
05:04His second was the complete opposite.
05:06Gone was the seemingly genuine emotion he once displayed,
05:10now replaced with him bragging about having killed 20 people in the Golden State.
05:13Even more chilling was his explanation, where he simply said that he loved murdering others,
05:18and that he loved watching them perish after his attacks.
05:21The admission was only a small piece in his conviction,
05:24but it proved just how apathetic he was about what he had done.
05:28He had no empathy, no feelings, nothing.
05:33He never showed any remorse for what he had done.
05:36He wanted to be known as the greatest serial killer that ever.
05:39Number 25, Andre Cicatillo.
05:41Some revelations are so horrific that you almost wish they hadn't come to light in the first place.
05:47This could definitely be said for Andre Cicatillo,
05:50whose arrest in 1990 soon led to a truly vile confession.
05:54He described every murder he carried out, and spared no details.
05:57He seemed to have a bizarre fascination with causing pain,
06:00as evidenced by him stabbing his victims at various levels of intensity,
06:04and even getting pleasure out of their screams.
06:06It was more horrific than anyone could have been prepared for,
06:10and when those same details were brought to court,
06:12several people fainted or broke down upon hearing them.
06:15Families of Cicatillo's victims screened insults.
06:19Some fainted.
06:20Number 24, John Wayne Gacy.
06:22For years, he was able to rely on an innocent persona to mask the atrocious crimes he committed.
06:28Meet John Wayne Gacy.
06:30Hey there!
06:32A small-time politician and part-time clown.
06:35Prior to his arrest in 1978,
06:38John Wayne Gacy was merely a man with a checkered past who was involved in his community.
06:43After he admitted to killing 30 people and burying their remains beneath his home,
06:47that perception changed drastically.
06:49This had come just hours after investigators had noticed the smell of rotting bodies in his house,
06:54cementing their suspicions and allowing them to fully search the crawlspace the next day.
06:58A second search warrant is issued,
07:01and officers swarm Gacy's ranch-style home and immediately search the crawlspace.
07:07Several decomposed bones were found scattered about the area,
07:10prompting him to confess a second time.
07:12This was all authorities needed to apprehend and try him,
07:16where he was sentenced to death.
07:18Number 23, Gary Ridgway.
07:20At the time of his arrest, he was one of the most infamous killers in United States history.
07:25Gary Ridgway is probably the most prolific serial killer in America, if not the world.
07:32He was a killing machine.
07:34A man of extraordinary evil.
07:37Yet without his confession, we would never know just how twisted he truly was.
07:41Gary Ridgway's reign of terror lasted for 16 years,
07:44and his capture in 2001 ensured that he would remain off the streets for good.
07:48It wasn't until 2003 when a plea deal revealed the gory details.
07:53The number of admitted kills rose from 48 to 71,
07:57and he was candid about how he hated his victims.
08:00The revelation spared him from execution, but earned him 49 life sentences.
08:05Ridgway is still helping authorities locate the remains,
08:08meaning there may still be some secrets that haven't come to light.
08:11We now know she was killed by Gary Ridgway.
08:14I spoke with her family on the phone today.
08:16They say they appreciate that they now have closure,
08:19but they say it's heartbreaking knowing Ridgway is still alive while their loved one is dead.
08:24When Grace Budd's mother received a letter from an unknown sender in 1934,
08:30she could have never guessed what horrors lay inside.
08:33The message was deceptively cordial,
08:35with the writer explaining a morbid trip he had taken to China,
08:38and how he'd been inspired to recreate it.
08:41He then described how he had taken Grace to an undisclosed location,
08:45killed her, and eaten her remains.
08:47The letter was from Albert Fish, a serial killer with a proclivity for human flesh.
08:51That wasn't his only vile admission.
08:54In a separate note, Fish detailed how he killed Billy Gaffney,
08:57and how he utilized or cooked each specific body part afterwards.
09:01Despite not a single word being said,
09:03it remains one of the most macabre confessions ever made.
09:06Number 21. Dennis Rader
09:09With his vicious spree lasting over three decades,
09:12any confession from him would have been shocking.
09:14When BTK came forward, everybody's life changed.
09:18He would see a woman walking, and he would say,
09:21she's next.
09:22However, no one could have guessed just how in-depth Dennis Rader's revelations would be.
09:27While on the stand at his trial,
09:29he described each of his murders from beginning to end.
09:32He spoke about them in an unapologetic, casual manner,
09:34as if he was simply recalling a memory of a slightly unpleasant night.
09:38Every detail, from how the acts he carried out were a perverse fantasy,
09:42to the nonchalant way he described each assault, strangulation, and stabbing,
09:46only added to the horror.
09:47It sealed his sentence,
09:49earning him at least 175 years that he's still serving today.
09:54Rader was sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences,
09:58with a minimum term of 175 years.
10:01He remains in solitary confinement,
10:05where he will stay for the rest of his life.
10:08Number 20.
10:09The Nazi Gold Train
10:10With all the atrocities committed during World War II,
10:13it only makes sense that some crimes would slip through the cracks.
10:16Ever since the end of the Second World War,
10:19there have been rumors of hidden treasure,
10:22the fabled Nazi gold.
10:24For decades, there were tales of a train filled with gold
10:27and other riches that had been hidden by Nazi soldiers.
10:30For a long time, it was considered to be only a legend.
10:34That all changed in 2015,
10:36when two men claimed to have heard a deathbed confession
10:38that revealed the exact location.
10:41They even had proof of a deep, man-made hole
10:43with unidentified objects inside.
10:45Interest in the story skyrocketed,
10:47and the hunt for the treasure began.
10:49They remain convinced that it probably shows a hidden armored train.
10:56It shows regular rectangular structures.
10:59After several years, nothing has been found yet,
11:02but the search still lives on.
11:04The crucial point is,
11:05the scientists could not detect enough metal in the hill
11:08for a train to be inside it.
11:10Number 19.
11:11Israel Keyes
11:12A career criminal,
11:14Israel Keyes committed many serious felonies
11:16and killed at least three people
11:17between the mid-90s and early 2010s.
11:20Yeah, fit of a ride.
11:20That was a great hour drive.
11:22That's where they were at.
11:23Now, in all fairness,
11:25I never set up a specific day.
11:27Keyes was arrested
11:28after killing a woman named Samantha Koenig
11:30and was extradited to Alaska,
11:32where the crime occurred.
11:33In Alaska,
11:34Keyes provided a detailed and graphic confession to law enforcement.
11:37Back when I was smart,
11:39I would let them come to me.
11:42Not only were the words horrible,
11:44but his behavior signified an uncomfortable air of menace.
11:47He calmly relayed some grotesque stories
11:49while eating a bagel and drinking coffee,
11:51like he didn't have a care in the world.
11:53Not much to choose from, in a manner of speaking,
11:56but there's also no witnesses, really.
12:00The FBI special agent who interviewed Keyes
12:02later called his confession, quote,
12:04very chilling.
12:05And that's coming from a professional
12:06who hears these types of stories every day.
12:09There is no one who knows me,
12:11or who has ever known me,
12:13who knows anything about me, really.
12:16Number 18, Elizabeth Wettlaufer.
12:18She went to work.
12:19She enjoyed her work.
12:20She was an RN.
12:22Hailing from Ontario, Canada,
12:23Elizabeth Wettlaufer was one of the most active serial killers
12:26in the country's history.
12:28Between 2007 and 2016,
12:30while working as a nurse at long-term care homes,
12:33Wettlaufer murdered eight senior citizens
12:35by injecting them with lethal doses of insulin.
12:37She made unsuccessful attempts on the lives of six others,
12:41but the intended victims survived
12:42as the insulin doses administered were insufficient.
12:45You have, of course, on the fourth page here
12:47entitled People Who Didn't Die.
12:49What can you tell me about?
12:52Surprisingly, the only reason Wettlaufer was caught
12:55was because she decided to come clean.
12:57Apparently seeking redemption,
12:59she committed herself to a Toronto psychiatric hospital
13:01and admitted her shocking crimes to the staff.
13:04They promptly notified the police,
13:06to whom Wettlaufer gave a more detailed confession.
13:09And then that night I overdosed her.
13:12Because, like I said, I had that feeling
13:14that it was her time to go and...
13:18What do you mean by that?
13:19Do you think she was towards the end of her life at that point?
13:21No, that she was the person to go next.
13:23She was handed eight concurrent life sentences.
13:26It wasn't so much that I wanted her to die.
13:29It was more of that, see what happens.
13:31Number 17, Tiger Woods.
13:33The personal life of Tiger Woods came under intense scrutiny in 2009
13:37when he became the subject of an infidelity scandal.
13:40I said, you're married.
13:42Nonchalantly, he said, yeah, I'm married.
13:44Like, sorry, he didn't make it as to be a big deal.
13:47Rumors had already been circulating in the press
13:49about a possible affair when, on November 27th,
13:52Woods crashed his SUV while leaving home around 2.30 a.m.,
13:56sparking numerous questions and suspicions.
13:58On December 2nd, he released a vague statement
14:01apologizing for unclear and unspecific, quote, transgressions.
14:05Now, every one of you has good reason to be critical of me.
14:12However, as the days went by,
14:14several women came forward claiming to have had relationships with Woods.
14:17It all proved too much for the golf star.
14:20And on December 11th, he finally confessed to being unfaithful.
14:23I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends.
14:33The debacle resulted in his divorce
14:35and significantly impacted his performance on the green,
14:38which he took years to overcome.
14:40For all that I have done, I am so sorry.
14:47Number 16, Naomi Shamer
14:49Jerusalem of Gold is an important song in its native Israel.
14:53Often regarded as an unofficial national anthem.
14:56Unfortunately, it also comes with some degree of controversy.
15:07For years, singer-songwriter Naomi Shamer
15:10was accused of plagiarizing the melody,
15:12but she repeatedly denied those allegations.
15:14That is, until she was dying of cancer
15:16and confessed to fellow musician Gil Aldema
15:19that she had, in fact, plagiarized the tune.
15:23It came from an old lullaby called
15:32which she heard at a concert in 1962.
15:36Shamer claimed to have unconsciously lifted the melody from memory,
15:39having loved it so much.
15:41However, she regretted it to the very end,
15:43even suggesting that the endless stress
15:45may have contributed to a fatal illness.
15:48Number 15, Edmund Kemper
15:49It started with surrogates at a non-human level.
15:53Physical objects, my possessions, other people's.
15:56One of the most notorious American serial killers,
15:58Edmund Kemper murdered 10 people by the age of 24,
16:02including his own mother and grandparents.
16:04Kemper was imprisoned twice for these crimes,
16:06both as a result of his own confession.
16:08After killing his grandparents,
16:10he informed his mother,
16:11who instructed him to call the police.
16:13He then confessed that he, quote,
16:15just wanted to see what it felt like to kill grandma.
16:17Kemper was released on parole
16:19and resumed his murderous activities soon after.
16:22And I could sense, I sensed,
16:23everybody in the world
16:24just stopping what they were doing,
16:25turning around,
16:26saw what I did and are coming to get me.
16:28And I knew I was paranoid.
16:30His spree,
16:31which resulted in the deaths of his mother and seven others,
16:33came to an end when Kemper called the police to confess.
16:36When asked why he turned himself in,
16:38Kemper coldly explained that killing was, quote,
16:41a pure waste of time.
16:43Now, would you get in the car with this man, huh?
16:51Number 14, Richard Kuklinski.
16:54How many people have you killed?
16:57Mystery continues to shroud Richard Kuklinski,
17:00an American career criminal
17:02who murdered at least five people.
17:03More than a hundred.
17:06For example,
17:07Kuklinski claims to have worked as a hitman for the mafia,
17:09but investigators have been unable to verify this.
17:13He also asserts that he killed up to 200 people,
17:15but only five deaths have officially been linked to him.
17:19Back in 1988,
17:20Kuklinski was found guilty of four murders
17:22and sentenced to life in prison.
17:24Actually, it was just seeing if it would work.
17:30What was he doing at the time?
17:32Looking at me.
17:33However, in 2001,
17:35during an interview for the HBO documentary,
17:37The Iceman Confesses,
17:38Kuklinski dropped a bombshell,
17:41admitting to the 1980 killing
17:42of NYPD officer Peter Calabro.
17:45Prosecutors later corroborated this story,
17:47resulting in 30 more years
17:49being added to Kuklinski's sentence.
17:51Did you think of yourself as an assassin?
17:54Assassin?
17:56Sounds so exotic.
18:00I was just a murderer.
18:01Number 13, Christian Sperling.
18:04Who the heck is Christian Sperling, you ask?
18:06Well, heard of a little creature called the Loch Ness Monster?
18:09Back in 1934,
18:11the famous surgeon's photograph was published in the Daily Mail,
18:14and while some had their doubts,
18:16it was long considered to be verifiable proof of the monster's existence.
18:20That is, until January 1991,
18:22when Christian Sperling confessed that it was all a hoax.
18:26He and his father-in-law,
18:27a man named M.A. Wetherill,
18:29had concocted the scheme,
18:30along with Wetherill's son and an insurance agent named Morris Chambers.
18:34They made the monster's head out of wood putty and a toy submarine,
18:38and had the photo sold to the Daily Mail.
18:40And with that,
18:41the world of cryptozoology was never the same.
18:45Number 12, Dennis Nielsen.
18:47Between 1978 and 1983,
18:49Scottish serial killer Dennis Nielsen strangled at least 12 men,
18:53and mostly disposed of their remains by flushing them down the toilet.
18:56And he just turned around and looked at me,
18:58and he said,
19:0015 or 16.
19:01In February of 1983,
19:03residents in Nielsen's building complained of plumbing problems.
19:06Upon investigation,
19:08experts found bones and human flesh blocking the system,
19:11specifically in a pipe leading to the top flat,
19:14which belonged to Nielsen.
19:15When police entered his house,
19:17they immediately noticed the smell of decomposition.
19:20Nielsen played innocent at first,
19:22but after a cop told him to stop, quote,
19:24messing about,
19:25he came clean,
19:26and admitted there was a body in the wardrobe.
19:28With that startling confession,
19:30Dennis Nielsen's crime spree came to an abrupt end.
19:33Number 11,
19:34Eileen Wuornos.
19:35So I have to come clean and tell the world
19:37the lies that went on through my mouth.
19:41Arguably the most infamous female serial killer,
19:44Eileen Wuornos was active in Florida for just one year,
19:47between 1989 and 1990.
19:49In that time,
19:50she engaged in sex work and killed seven male clients
19:53before robbing them of their cash.
19:55There's a slight misconception of Wuornos
19:57as a sympathetic victim,
19:59due to her traumatic upbringing,
20:00her claims of self-defense,
20:02and her portrayal in Monster,
20:04which her real-life acquaintances have criticized.
20:06In reality,
20:07Wuornos met the professional criteria for psychopathy,
20:10and she openly confessed to being a cold-blooded killer.
20:13First-degree murder and robbery.
20:16As they said, they had it right.
20:18A serial killer.
20:19While in court,
20:20Wuornos declared,
20:21quote,
20:21I am guilty as can be.
20:23I want the world to know I killed these men,
20:25as cold as ice.
20:27There's no self-defense,
20:28I'm really sorry what happened about everything.
20:31I was in this,
20:32this,
20:33to me,
20:33this world is none but evil.
20:35Number 10.
20:36Ted Bundy.
20:37One of the world's most evil serial killers.
20:39Upon his arrest in the mid-70s,
20:40he denied every count of assault,
20:42murder,
20:42and kidnapping brought against him.
20:44My chance to talk to the press.
20:45Contrary to section 78204 Florida Statue.
20:48I'll plead not guilty right now.
20:50It was only until immediately before his execution on January 24th, 1989,
20:55that he finally admitted to his crimes.
20:56In the weeks and months preceding the execution,
20:59he finally confessed to the crimes he was accused of in great detail.
21:02Bundy also admitted to revisiting the locations where he buried some of his victims' remains,
21:06and even owned up to crimes that the police didn't know about.
21:09How deep was the grave?
21:12Approximately three feet.
21:17Two to three feet.
21:18Despite this,
21:20Bundy's actual death toll could be much higher than we think.
21:23Number 9.
21:24Julian Altman.
21:25Some of the most valuable and revered musical instruments in the world are Stradivarius violins,
21:30antiques built in Italy hundreds of years ago.
21:32One in particular from 1713, currently known as the Gibson ex-Huberman Stradivarius,
21:43was stolen from a virtuoso called Broniswav Kuberman in 1936 by struggling musician Julian Altman.
21:49For half a century, it remained lost, until on his deathbed,
21:53Altman confessed to his wife that he was in possession of the violin, telling her where to find it.
21:57His information proved true, and she received a $263,000 finder's fee.
22:02It was last sold to violinist Joshua Bell for almost $4 million.
22:07It's a notorious instrument that I knew, already knew about, so I played a few notes on it, and that was it.
22:13I was hooked.
22:14Number 8.
22:15Margaret Gibson.
22:16In 1922, Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor was shot dead in his Los Angeles bungalow,
22:22a crime that went unsolved until 1964, when retired actress Margaret Gibson confessed to murder.
22:28Following a heart attack, Gibson knew she was about to die,
22:31and told one of her neighbors that she had been the one to kill Taylor all those years ago.
22:35Police can neither prove nor disprove this admission,
22:38and while it doesn't conflict with the information they know about Taylor's murder,
22:42all of the police files relating to it had mysteriously vanished by the 1940s,
22:46though Gibson did once become hysterical after seeing a piece about Taylor's unsolved murder on TV.
22:51Number 7.
22:52Naaman Diller's Widow.
22:54In 1983, one of the most successful art heists in history was pulled off.
22:59At the time, police had few to no leads about who stole a collection of antique timepieces
23:04from the L.A. Meyer Institute for Islamic Art in Jerusalem.
23:08One of these pieces was owned by Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France,
23:12and was worth an estimated $30 million.
23:14Then, in 2008, Nili Shamrat, the widow of notorious Israeli art thief Naaman Diller,
23:21was arrested after many of the stolen timepieces were found in her possession.
23:25Shamrat told police that Diller had confessed to her four years earlier on his deathbed,
23:29and revealed the location of the stolen assets.
23:32She was only caught after she attempted to sell the pieces.
23:35Number 6.
23:36Carolyn Bryant.
23:38An icon of black civil rights,
23:40Emmett Till was visiting family in Mississippi when he was lynched
23:43after being accused of inappropriately flirting with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant.
23:47Bryant's husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, kidnapped Till,
23:51killed him, and threw his body in the Tallahatchie River.
23:54An all-white jury acquitted Bryant and Milam of all charges.
23:58Shockingly, both men later profited by selling their confession to Look magazine
24:02for the modern-day equivalent of $43,000.
24:05The story, sadly, gets worse.
24:07In 2017, an historian named Timothy Tyson alleged that Carolyn Bryant
24:11had admitted to fabricating her accusation in a previous interview with him.
24:15If true, that would mean that the entire tragedy began over a monumental lie.
24:20If they reopened the case because of the warrant,
24:23that somehow bits and pieces of the historical record
24:27might come together and tell us something more clear.
24:31Number 5. James Brewer
24:33Upon suffering a severe stroke in 2009,
24:37James Brewer was convinced he was going to die.
24:39As a result, he called the police in Tennessee with a shocking confession.
24:43Brewer admitted to fatally shooting Jimmy Carroll in 1977
24:46because he thought Carroll was trying to steal his wife Dorothy.
24:50As it turned out, Brewer had actually been arrested in Tennessee shortly after the murder,
24:54but he escaped on bail and fled to Oklahoma,
24:56where he began living under a different name.
24:59But it appears the hands of justice were not quite ready to let him go.
25:03Following his confession, Brewer recovered from his stroke,
25:06after which he was arrested and charged with Carroll's murder.
25:10Number 4. Robert Durst
25:11In 2015, HBO was making a six-part documentary series called The Jinx
25:16about the murders Durst was accused of.
25:18The series ended with an apparent confession as he talks to himself while in the bathroom,
25:31unaware that his body mic was still switched on.
25:35It recorded a confession where he literally says he
25:39but there is some debate over whether or not this is admissible in court.
25:43On the one hand, he was aware of the microphone,
25:45while on the other, it was a spontaneous admission.
25:48To make matters even more complicated,
25:50he was also allegedly taking an illicit substance at the time of the interview.
25:54Number 3. Lance Armstrong
25:56He's now one of the most famous dope fiends in sporting history,
26:00but there was a time when his confession to using performance-enhancing drugs shook the world.
26:04Armstrong winning the Tour de France seven times consecutively aroused suspicions,
26:09and he finally admitted to what he was being accused of in a televised interview with Oprah.
26:13Yes or no. In all seven of your Tour de France victories, did you ever take banned substances
26:22or blood dope?
26:23Yes.
26:23The widely celebrated athlete had taken various cocktails of drugs to improve his cycling.
26:28Armstrong was completely unapologetic, and even blamed the doping scandal on the cancer he had survived.
26:34In the interview, he told Oprah that after becoming so ill and then making a miraculous comeback,
26:39he just, quote, got carried away.
26:42Number 2. Bill Clinton
26:43On the 26th of January 1998, the President famously declared that he, quote,
26:48I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
26:53The woman in question was Monica Lewinsky,
26:55who worked as an intern at the White House before being relocated when she spent too much time with him.
27:00He went on to repeatedly deny the allegations for seven months,
27:03even perjuring himself in court, before finally admitting that he did have, quote,
27:07a relationship with Ms. Lewinsky that was not appropriate.
27:10It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part,
27:15for which I am solely and completely responsible.
27:18The sex scandal was so huge, there were even attempts to have Clinton impeached,
27:22but he was ultimately acquitted of all charges and remained in office for two more years.
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27:43Number 1. Jeffrey Dahmer
27:45The Milwaukee monster's reign of terror finally came to an end when he was arrested on July 23rd, 1991.
27:52That night, an intended victim of Dahmer's escaped and led the police to his apartment.
27:57Wherein, they found several human remains, as well as numerous disturbing pictures.
28:01And I acted on my fantasies and that's where everything went wrong.
28:06Over 60 hours of police interviews,
28:08Dahmer confessed to the murder of more than 17 men and boys over the course of 13 years.
28:13Once I saw that I had no choice but to face it,
28:16I decided to face it head on and make a full confession.
28:22Dahmer's confession was nearly 250 pages long,
28:25and he ultimately met his end at the hands of a fellow prison inmate in 1994.
28:30I knew I was sick or evil or both.
28:34Now I believe I was sick.
28:35What confession do you find the most chilling?
28:38Let us know in the comments.
28:39During the hearing,
28:41Rader described the murders showing little remorse
28:44and with no apology
28:46to the horror of viewers.
28:48But we have to know.
28:56We hope to hear from you.
28:57Do you remember?
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