“I’m here to confess to a crime I committed that he was wrongly accused of,” Smith told the court. “He” was not just anyone — it’s was Smith’s 38-year-old identical twin, according to the Chicago Tribune. Kevin Dugar, Smith’s twin, has been in custody since 2003, the paper reported. “I have to get it off my chest before it kills me,” Smith wrote, according to the Tribune. “He wouldn’t lie about that,” Judy Dugar, referring to Smith, told the Tribune.

Source: National Post September 26, 2016 12:45 UTC