Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Mandy. How are you? To be quite honest, I'm exhausted. How are you? I hate to agree with you, but I'm going to agree with you.

Yeah, we are back from CrimeCon. Yay. Yay. We've been back for a couple days, but I, well,

doesn't matter. Doesn't count. Not 48 hours yet. I feel like I have not caught back up to

anything. No. But yet I was thrown right into everything. Exactly. I was up till

2 o'clock last night and I was like, why can I not sleep? And then I guess it could be the time

change, but I don't think that's it either. I just feel tired, but like a kid? Yes. Where I'm like

overly tired. Yes, exactly. Exactly that. Yeah. So we

had a significant flight delay when we were returning home from Colorado. I think our flight

ended up being delayed like five hours like by the end of it. And we didn't even get in until like

the middle of the night. And I ended up being up until like

3 a.m. that night. And then finally going to sleep, woke up. And it was my son's 16th birthday

the very next day. And so yeah, so I had to get up and put on that happy face as if I had not

been delayed five hours in traveling and up late and everything else.

So, yeah, so today I feel like I'm still a little behind, but maybe starting to catch up a little bit.

I'm not quite there, but maybe.

Maybe later.

I did a lot of driving this morning, so I, yes, I should be better later. But I am very much looking forward to this episode, Mandy. This is a little out of the ordinary. But this is what our Thursday episodes are, right? A little bit different. Out of the ordinary. So I'm excited to get into it. Me too. So this week we're going to be talking about confessions. So these are the moments

that really change everything in true crime because a confession can crack a case wide open,

and sometimes it can even steal a conviction. Confessions can really give closure to grieving families.

Sometimes these are really whispered confessions. They're really hush, hush. Sometimes people are really loud and proud about their confessions. And sometimes people don't even mean to confess at all. They just let it slip out. But here is the other thing about confessions. As we know in true crime, confessions are not always true. There are false confessions. According to the Innocence Project, nearly 30%

of wrongful convictions later overturned by DNA evidence involved false confessions. That's a wild

statistic. It truly is wild. Yeah, it truly is. And I've always been fascinated by wrongful

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