Guilt and Text Messages Lead to a Confession after Seventeen Years

I often focus my writing on individuals show no remorse for the violent acts they have committed and go to great lengths to avoid being captured by authorities. A story out of Arizona this week looks at a very different circumstance – one in which a man likely could have lived out his days without paying for his crimes but felt compelled to hand himself over to the police years after the violence took place.

Matthew Gibson got messages this summer that he could not explain. Some of these messa...