confession

The elderly criminal was said to have wanted to get the theft off his conscience - but his confession to a newspaper journalist could never be proved.

There is no body, no blood, no confession, and no witness.

Masud's lawyers have asked a federal court in Washington to rule the alleged confession inadmissible in advance of his trial in April next year.

The unnamed roommate told investigators that Tyler Robinson had alerted him to a confession under his keyboard after last Wednesday's shooting at Utah Valley University campus in the city of Orem, said prosecutors.

He unveiled a trove of evidence at a news conference on Tuesday, including the defendant's alleged confession and DNA found on the trigger of the rifle suspected to have been used in the crime.