Tuesday, January 18

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"