The Wrong Confession: Sean Hodgson, David Lace and the Murder of Teresa De Simone
In December 1979, barmaid Teresa De Simone was found murdered in her car beneath the Tom Tackle pub in Southampton. Sean Hodgson, a man who confessed to crimes compulsively, was convicted in 1982, while a second man's confession in 1983 was dismissed. This is the story of how DNA freed Hodgson after 27 years, and how police came to name the other man as her killer.
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