10.) Christian Spurling Confessed To Faking The Famous Loch Ness Photo.


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We're familiar with the photo above of the notorious aquatic monster. But in 1994, the stepson of Marmaduke Wetherall, Christian Spurling, confessed on his deathbed that it was a hoax. Apparently Wetherall had Spurling created a model monster out of a toy submarine.

11.) Julian Altman Confessed To Stealing Bronisław Huberman's Violin.


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Julian Altman sneaked into famed violinist Bronisław Huberman's dressing room when he was a 20-year-old nightclub musician and stole the musician's violin. Julian Altman went on to be a famous violinist in his own right, using the violin to perform for presidents and dignitaries. On his deathbed, he confessed his crime to his wife and instructed her to sell it. Its current owner bought it for 4 million dollars.

12.) Diane Crawford Confessed To The Murders Of Two Women.


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In 2008, a woman named Diane Crawford confessed to the murders of two women, Constance Smootz Hevener and Carolyn Hevener Perry, from all the way back in 1967. The two apparently made fun of Crawford for being a lesbian, which led to an altercation in which Crawford shot both women. Crawford fled to another town, got married, and had two children before returning to Staunton to live with a women, who she confessed her crime to.

The people who heard these confessions must have felt enormous pressure to do something with that information. I'm not sure what I would even do when faced with it...