A latent desire to confess to a person in authority was a concept I had been taught very early in my former law enforcement career by a seasoned Wilmington PD homicide detective, the late Charlie Burke. “How do you get so many confessions?” I asked Burkie. “They want to tell you, Choll,” Burkie answered. I thought he was kidding. This was after he’d gotten a murder confession out of the burglar Randolph Dickerson. Randolph had used a screwdriver he’d jimmied a window with to stab to death the old woman who lived alone and supplemented her Social Security by selling Bibles. The Bible saleslady
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