Murder Confession

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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One drunken afternoon Michelle's girlfriend confessed to a murder. The circumstances surrounding the killing were darker than she could imagine, and it's turned her life upside down.

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0:00.0	Hi, Ben. My name is Michelle, and my secret is that one drunken afternoon while we were waiting in a creek,
0:08.1	my girlfriend told me she murdered someone when she was a kid, and I believe her. The killing even reached
0:14.2	into my life and the circumstances surrounding it were darker than I could imagine. I've only ever
0:19.3	told one person, and I'm ready to talk.
0:23.4	Today, the secret room presents murder confession. Hey, everyone is Ben and welcome. Today, Michelle is
0:30.5	going to tell us about an earth-shattering afternoon when her girlfriend confessed to a murder.
0:35.4	But the circumstances surrounding the confession raised questions,
0:38.9	like, was she even serious? And the whole environment her story unfolds in, and a connection
0:43.8	that's made to her family, make Michelle's story all the more tragic and all the more unfathomable.
0:48.8	Let's get started. Hi, Michelle, and welcome to The Secret Room.
0:54.9	Hi, Ben.
0:55.8	Thank you for having me.
0:57.2	Thank you so much for joining me with this very dark secret.
1:03.5	Yes.
1:04.8	Yeah, it's very dark.
1:06.6	Your secret has to do with a murder confession made to you by a childhood friend,
1:10.7	actually by an ex-girlfriend, right?
1:14.0	Yes, yes.
1:15.7	Can you tell me where your story starts?
1:18.0	So I grew up in a small town on the Kentucky-Tennessee border, and it's just, I mean, it's a small town, super poor. And when I was a kid, it was even smaller than it is now. It's grown a little. But yeah, just out in the country, like typical, like, you know, biggest city was about an hour away kind of thing and not a lot to do.
1:42.2	What was life like as a kid?
1:44.4	It was interesting.
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