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@mmoklaaa Exactly. Taking responsibility matters, but it doesn’t prove he felt remorse.

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He killed 17 people. Then he told the interviewer who was to blame.

In 1993, Jeffrey Dahmer sat down for his first television interview from prison.

Asked what started the killings, he said he still didn’t know. Then he named the person responsible:

“The person to blame is sitting right across from you.”

Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. He was caught after one man escaped from his apartment and flagged down police.

In the clip below, Dahmer answers the question without blaming his parents, society, or anyone else.

Was that real accountability or just something he said after he was caught?

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@BiotweeX It really is. The part about his family never knowing is especially disturbing.

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@orshovskiy Fair point. Do you think he was trying to protect himself after the escape?

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@0_oRai True. The headstand alone proves nothing, but what about the makeup comment?

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In June 2008 Jodi Arias thought the interrogation camera was off. Then she started singing, laughed and did a headstand.

Hours earlier, she’d been arrested for killing Travis Alexander.

Police found him dead in his shower : stabbed, shot, and with his throat cut. A camera recovered from the washing machine held photos taken the day he died.

Arias first said she hadn’t been in Arizona. Then she blamed two masked intruders.

In the interrogation room, she looked at herself and said, “You should have at least done your makeup, Jodi.”

Then she kicked up into a headstand.

The jury never saw the footage. Arias was convicted in 2013 and sentenced to life without parole.

What was going through her mind in that room?

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@0_oRai The made-up father makes the whole story even harder to process. She was building a whole life around a lie.

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@rickyrates Money kept people from questioning him for years. It couldn’t stop what happened to Dave Schultz.

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@0_oRai The paperwork kept moving, and nobody checked who was actually alive

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He killed his elderly parents. Their bodies stayed hidden for eight years.

Their neighbors thought Franz and Theresia Kraus had moved back to Germany. Then police found their remains buried in the backyard of their Albany home. Franz was 92. Theresia was 83.

Their son, Lorenz, went on local television. When the reporter asked what happened to his parents, Kraus said he had killed them.

“I did my duty to my parents,” he said.

Police say he had collected their Social Security benefits while they hadn’t been seen for years. He pleaded not guilty, but a judge ruled that the interview could be used as evidence at trial.

Watch the moment the reporter asks him directly what he did to his parents.

What’s more disturbing: the confession, or the fact that no one knew they were gone for eight years? 👇

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@mmoklaaa That’s what makes it so chilling-he truly believed he was justified.

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@0_oRai You are right.Cassie should come first. Why give her killer the spotlight?

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Two 16-year-old boys planned their friend’s murder like they were making a horror movie.

In 2006, Cassie Jo Stoddart was staying at her aunt’s house when her classmates Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik came over. They left, then came back in masks.

Cassie was found dead the next day.

The boys had filmed themselves talking about the plan. Afterward, one of them recorded: “We just killed Cassie.”

Seventeen years later, Brian sat down for an interview and talked about the crime that put him in prison for life.

Watch what he says about the person who lost her life👇

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@0xmrledger Exactly. She was a real person, not a movie character

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@0_oRai That’s chilling. If he truly believed he’d kill again, keeping him locked away was the only way to protect others

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@0_oRai He’s responsible for the murders. But the decisions that put him back on the street deserve serious scrutiny too.

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In 2008, Elon Musk had put $180 million from PayPal into Tesla and SpaceX. By Christmas, his brother said he was “more than broke.”

Tesla was burning tens of millions a month. SpaceX had one launch left. If it failed, Musk said, it was game over.

Then NASA called: SpaceX had won a $1.5 billion contract.

“I couldn’t even hold the phone,” Musk said. “I just blurted out, ‘I love you guys.’”

Two days later, Tesla’s funding came through on Christmas Eve.

Both companies were saved within three days.

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Police got a 15-year-old to confess to a shooting. He was playing basketball 15 miles away.

2022, Waukegan, Illinois. Martell Williams was sitting in class when officers pulled him out and took him to the station.

A Dollar General clerk had been shot during a robbery. Detectives questioned Martell for hours. According to his lawyer, they offered him McDonald’s and told him he could go home if he confessed.

Martell was scared. He eventually told them what they wanted to hear.

But his family knew he hadn’t been there. They found proof he was playing in an away basketball game at the time of the shooting.

Martell spent two nights in juvenile detention. Then the charges were dropped.

The confession sounded convincing. The timeline made it impossible.

How many false confessions go unquestioned because nobody finds the alibi in time?

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@LeoBoromeo0wh9 Yeah. Too many products can kill a good company. Focus wins, isn't that so?

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@mmoklaaa After 51 years, even finding the truth must bring a lot of complicated feelings

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Melissa Highsmith’s family found her after 51 years. Then the woman who raised her said she had bought her for $500.

Melissa was 21 months old when she disappeared from Fort Worth in 1971. Her family spent decades chasing tips, but every lead ended in disappointment.

In 2022, a DNA match connected Melissa’s children to the family searching for her. Her father found her on Facebook and sent a message: he had been looking for his daughter for 51 years.

Melissa thought it was a scam.

Then the pieces started to fit: the family resemblance, the birthmark, the DNA.

She asked the woman who had raised her if there was anything she needed to know.

The answer changed everything. The woman said she had bought Melissa as a baby for $500.

A DNA match brought the family back together. It also revealed that Melissa’s life had begun with a secret.