Tuesday, January 18, 2005

True Confessions

1. "Killer sees Passion, confesses"
   <http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/26/1079939840657.html>
"A Texas man who had gotten away with murder confessed to police after
 seeing Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ and talking with a spiritual
 adviser"

2. "Bank robbery suspect surrenders after watching new Mel Gibson film"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_895104.html>
"A man who robbed a Florida bank in 2001, has given himself up after
 watching Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ"

3. "'Passion' film prompts another confession"  [Norway]
   <http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2004/03/30/402054-ap.html>
"A Norwegian man trying to put his neo-Nazi past behind him confessed to
 bombing a youth group's headquarters in the 1990s, saying he admitted his
 guilt after seeing 'The Passion of the Christ'"

4. "Conman with a conscience turns himself in"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1241706.html>
"A conman with a conscience in Chile called police and asked them to take
 him to prison"

5. "Hen-pecked robber returns haul"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_888559.html>
"A hen-pecked robber who stole a cash till full of cash returned it an
 hour later because his wife nagged him"

6. "No surrender for bank robber"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1240818.htm>
"An Albany man gave himself up to police after seeing himself on TV news
 robbing a bank but was turned away by officers, who told him to come
 back the next day"

7. "Robber gives up because police can't catch him"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_855590.html>
"A Briton who robbed several banks in Germany has turned himself in saying
 he is sick of police failing to find him"