DEATHBED CONFESSION

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The last words: Deathbed confessions from family

This is also known as Online Behavioural Advertising. You can find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out here. But after he got it off his chest, he made a surprising recovery - so much so in fact that he regained enough strength to be discharged from the hospital into a nursing home.

Doctors had assured Shaun that his confession would not be disclosed unless he was at risk of doing himself or someone else harm, but the weight of his confession naturally made them "uneasy". Urgent legal opinions were sought from their personal liability insurers and from the hospital asking whether the confession could be revealed to police. The advice came back with conflicting opinions, and the clinical team ultimately decided it would not be appropriate to inform the police. At the same time, Shaun was encouraged to write down his confession so it could be given to police after his death, which he agreed to do, though he said he didn't want help and would do it on his own.

The staff don't know whether he ever wrote or sent the letter. A police spokesperson said they were not aware of any recent filings that fit the description. The clinical team said they made the decision based on balancing the likelihood of harm versus the likelihood of benefit. They came to the conclusion that there was very little to gain from telling police, simply because Shaun was going to die soon, and because the crimes happened so long ago. Medical ethicist Phillipa Malpas argued that doctor-patient confidentiality was a cornerstone of effective medical practice, and that Shaun's treatment, which demonstrably reduced his pain levels, was only possible because he has trust and confidence that his doctors would not disclose the information to anyone else.

It would be a breach of confidence to inform police while Shaun was still alive - he very well may have denied the allegations, and then the team would be left with a dying patient who no longer trusted his carers. But presuming he had never written the letter to police, she argued, it would be "ethically permissible" for doctors to now, after his death, inform the police of his confession.

Police have urged the doctors or anyone else with information to get in touch, saying: But whether the doctors even legally can tell police is contentious, though Professor Jo Manning of the University of Auckland Faculty of Law believes they could. The disclosure of his confession would cause "significant harm to his memory and distress to his surviving family and friends" she said, and if he had requested that the information be kept secret, then they would have an obligation not to tell anyone.

However, the public interest in a proper police investigation would override that, she said. While Shaun was not at risk of reoffending, and there is obviously no opportunity for sentencing now that he has died, it would provide closure to the victims families to know the identity of the perpetrator and the location of the bodies.

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It would also be a strong deterrent to others to show that perpetrators are held to account, no matter how long it takes. Manning said that the clinical team were "permitted, but not obliged" to go to the police. As of now, they have decided to hold fast and stay silent. He was a good student, but in the fall he had been arrested for possession of stolen goods. The district attorney made a deal with him that they would drop the charges if he testified that a fellow student, year-old Russell Smrekar, gave him the stolen goods.

Mansfield decided to take the deal. They got in contact with her husband, who left work and went directly home. In the garage, he found a. But Ruth Martin was nowhere to be found. Two days later, her car was found abandoned in Bloomington, Illinois. The police found more blood in the trunk.

On October 9, , a call came into the dispatch in Lincoln because shots were fired in a quiet neighborhood. The police went to the home of Jay and Robin Fry, who were both years-old. They had been gunned down with a shotgun. Sadly, Robin was three months pregnant with their first child. At the time, the police had no idea that the two disappearances and the double murder were connected.

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Then they started to look into what possible motive someone could have to kill Ruth Martin and the Frys. They soon saw a connection. Jay Fry and Ruth Martin were going to testify against Smrekar for stealing. Jay worked at a grocery store and chased Smrekar down in the parking lot after he stole an item. Robin Fry was only killed because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. They also found out that Michael Mansfield had disappeared before he had a chance to testify against Smrekar. The stolen goods that he was going to testify about were a guitar and some records.

Smrekar was arrested and convicted of the murders of the Frys. He was given two sentences of to years in prison. Every so often, investigators visited Smrekar and ask him what happened to Michael Mansfield and Ruth Martin. He said he knew nothing about their disappearances and its just a coincidence that they went missing. In October , Smrekar was years-old and dying.

That is when he finally admitted to killing both Michael Mansfield and Ruth Martin. Smrekar died on October 26, not long after confessing. In February , a woman named Pam Rhinehart went to the police station in Elizabethtown, Kentucky with a disturbing story. She said that for the past eight months, she had been taking care of her ailing uncle, Larry Sherrard.

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He said that in the s, he shot another man. This one he buried. The same afternoon that Sherrard went into a coma, he died. The police looked into their cold cases and found a case that was similar to the first murder that Sherrard described. In July , spelunkers found a body at the bottom of a cave with a bullet hole in his skull. He was identified as Thomas Jones, Jr. The police went to the area where Sherrard said the second body was buried. They found bone fragments and pieces of clothing. That victim has never been identified. On the evening of January 11, , a teenage boy found the bloody body of his year-old sister, Christine Kett, in their Dayton, Ohio home.

He went and got the neighbors and the police were notified.

Her lower body was in the kitchen and her upper body was at the top of the stairway. Her head had sustained several blows with a sharp object, like a hatchet or an ax. She became hysterical when she was informed her daughter died. Over the years, Mrs. Kett accused many people of murdering her daughter and the police arrested several men.

However, no one could be tied to the crime scene so no one was ever formally charged. The police finally concluded that Christine accidentally shot herself after she tripped while carrying the pistol. Kett was bedridden with inflamed bowels and she was nearing death. She had her son come to her bedside, and she told him that she had killed Christine. On the day that she died, Christine was supposed to come home at noon to make dinner. She was a few hours late, and Mrs. She grabbed an ax and as Christine ran towards the cellar, Mrs. Kett struck her in the head.

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Kett then grabbed the gun and the flask with the gun powder. She then went out to the market and returned after she knew her son would find the body. Kett asked her son to keep it a secret until he was on his deathbed, and he agreed.