Truth, Lies or Hoax? That is the Question

Truth, Lies or Hoax? That is the Question

Since the jailhouse confession topic was brought up on blog I thought I would make a post out of this jailhouse confession story.

Prison interview: Florida inmate confesses to double murder in Immokalee
The letter arrived in late February, with the return address "Florida State Prison."
Inside was a fantastic tale of kidnapping and murder, written in small, neat handwriting by Calvin Cyler Crawford Jr., a convicted murderer serving a life sentence in Florida’s most secure lockup.

Crawford said in the letter that in August 1991, after he was released from his first prison stint at age 19, he and an Immokalee man he knew only as "Peanut" hooked up to commit robberies.

With some detail, Crawford described forcing a young couple off Interstate 75 in Lee County and kidnapping them. Afraid of being caught violating probation he received in St. Lucie County, Crawford wrote that he and Peanut brought the couple to woods off Lake Trafford Road in Immokalee, where he executed and buried them.
"I feel I’m doing a good thing," Crawford wrote. "At least to these people family. And I feel I’ve just took a load off myself (sic)."

After three months of investigation into the letter, which the Daily News turned over to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, deputies believe it is nothing more than a well-written hoax, penned by an inmate looking for a few extra hours outside his cell to talk to reporters and investigators.

Authorities think it's a hoax. Interesting.

Initially, Crawford said he wouldn’t show investigators where he buried the bodies unless he received a written guarantee that he wouldn’t get the death penalty, but in his most recent letter to the Daily News he backed off that statement.
"To put an end to all this talk about attention-seeking, you asked me if I would be willing to come show where the bodies were buried. I told you no," Crawford wrote. "Now, I’m more than willing to come and show where they are. If only to prove I ain’t playing any games."

Still, in his interview, Crawford said he "don’t feel like dying right now," and said he still wants a guarantee from the State Attorney’s Office that he won’t be put to death.

"I’m not a racist person, but I am a realist," Crawford said. "I feel that if a black person killed two white persons ... he’s going to death row first class."
"I don’t believe the world just came out of nowhere. I do believe in creation," he said. "If there is a heaven or hell, I think I’m hell-bound to tell you the truth."

What to believe, yet another jailhouse confession and authorities think it’s all a hoax.