Keith Morrison revisits a case that takes some truly unsettling turns in this week’s Dateline Unforgettable. A man in Idaho gets a life sentence for murder based on his own confession. Only problem is, he didn’t do it.
The case takes a dramatic turn when the real killer is finally caught, but that’s not the end of the story. A further twist throws the entire case into question, leaving viewers to wonder how justice can ever be served in such a tangled web of deceit.
Morrison guides us through the psychological complexities of false confessions, exploring the factors that can lead an innocent person to admit to a crime they didn’t commit. Dateline Unforgettable digs into the cases that haunt the correspondents, the ones that stay with them long after the cameras stop rolling. This episode examines the ripple effects of wrongful convictions and the fight to clear a wrongly accused man’s name.
Dateline Unforgettable: True Confession airs Thursday, February 27, 2025, at 8:00 PM ET on Oxygen True Crime.
