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Leonard Lake's Confession
A man named Paul Costner had been missing for seven months when he was arrested. He told police his real name was Leonard Lake and that he'd been a fugitive from the law for three years. But before telling them anything more, he asked for a pen, paper and a glass of water and then began making a confession. As he went on, Leonard spoke calmly, frankly and freely, but as he continued speaking, something strange started to happen. Soon he was lying on the floor, convulsing wildly and violently, but the interrogators hadn't seen him earlier slipping a cyanide capsule into his mouth and swigging it down with the water they'd given him. After falling