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A 17-year-old boy was hospitalized in Southington, Ohio, in March after he placed a .22-caliber bullet in a vise at his home and tightened it to see what would happen. The bullet exploded, embedding metal fragments in his fingers.
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Francis Perlmutter, who inadvertently confessed to murder in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in June when he left a message on an answering machine, told reporters who were questioning him just after his arrest: “I don’t know what’s going to happen now. This is my first murder.”
Convicted serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, imprisoned in Hunstville, Texas, told an Associated Press reporter in July that he made up tales about his involvement in the nearly 600 murders he confessed to. Lucas, who’s now serving life sentences for ten murders, said that once he got started making up confessions, he couldn’t stop. “I just didn’t have any willpower.”
