confessed

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On board, the pair confessed to Gonzalez, though they denied the money was for Flores’s campaign.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

In November 2024, Fernandes lodged a criminal complaint in Germany against persons unknown, a month before she alleges that Ulmen confessed.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

Schaefer confessed to the killing but claimed he was defending himself during an argument with von Wiese Mack, who was unhappy that her daughter was pregnant.

From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026

“Here’s the thing. I have a condo, and my mom has one, and my cousin has one, and we all live nearby. I kind of forgot it was there,” Jenner confessed.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 17, 2026

When he left his father’s modest-sized plantation at Montpelier in Virginia to attend Princeton in 1769—Aaron Burr was a classmate—the youthful Madison had confessed to intimations of imminent mortality, somewhat morbidly predicting his early death.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis