Deathbed Confessions Lead to Life Sentence!
A man who’s on his deathbed confesses to a murder he did 30+ years ago, only to find out he’s not dying and that he will be on trial soon.
Life will be fair to people, so this guy’s fate must have been to live longer to receive what he deserved after all, life in jail.
Lying in his bed for what he was convinced were his final moments, James Brewer, a stroke victim, felt compelled to confess to a crime that had weighed on his conscience for more than three decades.
In 1977, the factory worker was arrested in Tennessee on suspicion of shooting a man dead in a fit of jealous rage, but he jumped bail and fled to Oklahoma, where he and his wife began a new life under assumed names. Eager to clear his conscience before he passed away, he phoned police back in Tennessee and admitted his guilt.
Detectives said Mr Brewer, 58, told them he wanted to “cleanse his soul” and go to meet his maker with a clear conscience. But in a bizarre twist of fate, he survived the illness and now faces a new murder trial over the death of Jimmy Carroll, the neighbour he believed tried to seduce his wife, Dorothy, 32 years ago.
Tags: bizarre twist, clear conscience, confessions, deathbed, guilt, james brewer, jealous rage, jimmy carroll, life sentence, more than three decades, murder trial, neighbour, stroke victim, suspicion, tennessee, twist of fate, wife dorothy
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