John Mark Karr

John Mark Karr

male, 45 years old
From Georgia, substitute teacher, English As a Second Language Teacher, DNA tests, falseconfession, veracity
John Mark Karr is an American who worked as a substitute teacher and made a false confession regarding the unsolved murder of six-year-old...
William Heirens

William Heirens

male, 81 years old
serial killer, lipstick, fbi, American, police brutality, Disputed convictions…falseconfession
William George Heirens (1928 -) is an American criminal who confessed to three murders in 1946. Though the term "serial killer" had not been coined...

Robert Hubert

male, deceased (1666)
English, execution, Rouen, executed by hanging, Great Fire of London, wrongfully convicted…falseconfession
Robert Hubert (b. c. 1640, d. 28 September, 1666) was a watchmaker from Rouen, France, famous for his false confession of starting the Great Fire...