Just because a killer confesses to killing someone, doesn’t necessarily mean they did the deed.
If a serial killer is into notoriety and self promotion they might be willing to confess to anything. The police might want to shut a bunch of cold cases and the killer will happily admit to them, whether or not they were involved.
What is the difference between confirmed kills and admitted kills?
Evidence versus a confession.
Just because a killer confesses to killing someone, doesn’t necessarily mean they did the deed.
If a serial killer is into notoriety and self promotion they might be willing to confess to anything. The police might want to shut a bunch of cold cases and the killer will happily admit to them, whether or not they were involved.
This famously happened in the case of Henry Lee Lucas