Wow, never heard of him!..................
It's quite an amazing story. There are several good documentaries on YouTube about him.
He was talked into confessing by an brilliant RCMP detective named Jim Smyth, and the whole thing was captured on video tape. That's on YouTube too.
That — and the video of the interview of Craig's List Killer Philip Markoff by Boston PD detectives — are the most amazing demonstrations of practical psychology I've ever seen.