Why is he already tried and convicted by so many? We haven't seen or hear of a single shred of hard evidence. This worries me.
You can see by the join dates and post counts that many of us seasoned sleuthers have been here for awhile. Those of use who post a lot also tend to have been interested in crime, profiling and missing person/murder cases long before joining. Finally, many of us are well educated and have researched a ton and are super interested because we either work in some capacity or are experienced with the justice system - forensics, search and rescue, LE, probation, missing persons organizations, or have been victims or close to someone who was a victim - or we are people who work in psychology, the medical field, science, etc. - different areas that often link up to crime.
So those of use who believe it is highly likely this guy is guilty and harmed Hannah, that LE has the right guy, feel that way simply due to a long history of experience watching this cases unfold, researching, learning, discussing ad nauseam, and doing a ton of amateur profiling. It's logic and experience.
They never confess...IMHO...I just think back to all the other ones that fooled everyone...Scott Peterson, Joran Van Der Sloot...they all had families that cared for them. They all had a good life. Why do something like this? It is a part of their make-up...some type of wiring.
Some are sociopaths but not all. Many confess. We don;t discuss those here often because if there is a confession, those cases don;t typically get a lot of air time unless the confession came after years. Here are some examples:
1. A North Carolina man named Matthew Gibson confessed to murdering a woman 17 years ago, police told the Charlotte Observer on Monday, Sept. 22. What's most bizarre about his sudden admission is that Gibson came clean after receiving texts from Walmart.
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity...-walmart-texts-received-2014239#ixzz3EISai1cm
2. PROVIDENCE — A homeless man told the police on Friday that his conscience drove him to reveal something he’d kept secret — that he’d beaten a man to death in South Providence 24 years ago.
By nightfall, Daniel Serrano, 65, was charged with the murder of 32-year-old Michael Holliday — a man he said he didn’t intend to kill, Maj. David Lapatin said.
“He claims he was feeling very guilty about it,” the police major added.
http://www.providencejournal.com/br...-confesses-to-murder--of-the-wrong-target.ece
3. A New Jersey mechanic wracked with guilt over his alleged involvement in the 1990 murder of a 15-year-old has turned himself in to police after nightmares and visions of the teen's mother haunted him over the past 23 years, according to the man's close friend.
Steven Goff, 41, has been charged with the May 7, 1990 murder of Frederick "Ricky" Hart, 15, in Galloway, N.J. Goff allegedly stabbed Hart multiple times with a knife in the woods behind Galloway's Clubs Condominiums, according to a statement from the Atlantic County prosecutor's office. No motive for the killing has been made public.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/jersey-man-haunted-victims-mother-confesses-1990-murder/story?id=18873100
4. The grisly murder and robbery of an elderly couple in Waterloo, Iowa, stunned the community three decades ago. But the case remained unsolved until a 66-year-old man walked into a police station and confessed on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, Pursel, who most recently lived in South Gate, Calif., told Waterloo police details about the crime only someone involved with it would know, said Capt. Tim Pillack of the Waterloo Police Department. The town, located along the Cedar River, is home to nearly 70,000 residents, according to the 2010 U.S. Census.
"He just wanted to get it off his mind," Pillack told ABCNews.com. "He knew of the family. He said his intention was to go in and rob them and kill them."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/iowa-double-murder-jack-pursel-confesses-decades/story?id=16321376
5. In a stunning admission that many in New Jersey law enforcement thought might never come, Larry Thompson, a 72-year-old inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, confessed last month to being the triggerman in the infamous murder-for-hire death of Toms River socialite Maria Marshall in September 1984, authorities said.
Thompson was found not guilty of the crime in 1986, but Robert Marshall, Maria’s husband, was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to death. In 2006, with a moratorium on the death penalty in New Jersey, Marshall was resentenced to life imprisonment with no parole for 30 years. His first parole hearing will be in December.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/20...nfession_to_the_murder_of_maria_marshall.html
6. A man who murdered his housemate and buried him in a tomb in their garden has finally confessed to the crime four years later, after his guilty conscience became too much bear.
Sebastian Bendou, 36, stabbed and battered his housemate Christophe Borgye in 2009 along with an accomplice in a brutal pre-planned attack after a row over money.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rs-later-guilty-conscience.html#ixzz3EIUPEimG
7. Confession to police two years after killing four year old Kali Poulton:
Mark appeared dejected, as if he was already resolved to his fate. In spite of his mother’s objections, Mark agreed to get a cup of coffee with me, provided that I transport him to his attorney’s office
afterward. Mark sat in the front seat of my unmarked police car beside me, un-handcuffed. He said that he would tell me everything I wanted to know after he spoke with his attorney.
I replied that any lawyer worth their salt would not allow him to speak with me about what happened with Kali,and that meant that her parents would never find out exactly what happened to their baby, or if she had suffered. “She didn’t suffer.” Mark responded.
“I hope not.” I said.
As we drove back towards Rochester, I suggested that we get some lunch. The smell of a good pasta sauce and the sharing of fresh bread can make would-be adversaries become friends.
Mark stated that he felt bad for what he had done to Kali. He said that he had been living a nightmare ever since, haunted by Kali’s face on missing child posters all over the country.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...cMk0TXeFhn-GQRJOqoSd7tg&bvm=bv.76247554,d.cGE
